Tom Carper

For the life of me, for someone who has been accused day after day, week after week, now month after month of these misdeeds, and not to be seeking the opportunity to be heard before the committee of jurisdiction to clear his name, I don't…

If I had been accused of any of the things that he has been accused of, I would be pleading for a chance to sit at this table and defend myself.

The Administrator has put politics and his own personal gains ahead of the EPA's mission to protect public health and our environment.

Your paths to confirmation will be troubled. Will be troubled. Could be troubled.

I believe I speak for my colleagues, both Republican and Democrat, that we will clear our schedules and make time available as soon as possible.

We don't need permission to conduct oversight, and we are abdicating a fundamental responsibility of this body if we continue to fail to do so.

However, in recent weeks new revelations show that some of the Administrator's actions may be illegal.

For months now Mr. Pruitt's behavior has been concerning and clearly, to most of us, I think, unethical.

Well, we all have a right to disagree, and we have heard this repeatedly from a lot of different sources.

Mr. Pruitt has used EPA staff to help his wife find a job, search for real estate, try to buy a used mattress for the Trump Hotel.

We need to be moving toward regulation, not away from it, to making sure that we are going to get the proper results

But as we all know, there are a lot of times when we go around States around the country, we try to use our cellphones, and they don't work.

Are you concerned that widespread autonomous vehicle deployment may actually worsen this problem?

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It allows for the investment in care coordination.

Our rural communities are also more overweight and more obese.

I want to say, $200 billion each year because of our addiction to tobacco products.

We have a lot of people who do not have access to health care because we are just so spread out in a big county.

A guy named Vince Lombardi used to coach the Green Bay Packers for many years, quite successfully, as I recall, and he used to say if we are not keeping score, we are just practicing.

We need something big, and to the extent that we can actually produce that, hallelujah.

I would just add I think you were out of the room when I asked unanimous consent that Senator Heitkamp's name also be added as a co-sponsor to the manager's amendment, so she has joined the team as well.

I am grateful to see that will evidenced by my Ranking and my Chairman, as well as other colleagues on this Committee.

There is a moral imperative to deal with these issues.

It is shameful. It is just shameful that we are not addressing these problems.

I want to raise an issue regarding Section 1041, a provision related to the benefit to cost ratio, known as BCR.