Tom Carper

This package of amendments represents more areas of consensus that were able to come together in bipartisan fashion in support.

If we are going to truly address big issues like climate change, we are going to have to find compromises that can work for both parties.

I want to thank Ranking Member Carper and Senator Inhofe and Senator Cardin, all the members of the Committee, and their staffs for their hard work on this bill.

I am proud of the bipartisan work we have done together on this legislation.

I am delighted to be here and partnered with our Chairman.

The concern you put forth in your letter is that if the OIG 'has formally signed off on spending it is now investigating,' the OIG would lack the requisite impartiality to review the agency's actions.

The fiscal year 2019 budget proposal is yet another giant blinking sign that you don't take your responsibility to this country seriously.

Both your scandals and your policy decisions abuse your position of public trust and make a mockery of your responsibilities as head of EPA.

Your scandals are a mere sideshow distracting us from the long-lasting devastation your leadership is making on human health and the environment.

This isn't cooperative Federalism; it's flat-out abandonment.

We have an obligation, I think, a moral obligation to help.

We have to help the countries as well with the push-and-pull factors.

They come here because their lives are not just difficult, their lives, in many cases, are horrendous. We contribute directly to that.

If our roles were different and you were the Senate and I was the Secretary of the Department, we would issue those 69,000 visas.

That is not good enough. I mean, these companies, they are highly seasonal. They need the folks now.

The importance of pairing natural infrastructure improvements with engineered flood control solutions and how they can complement each other

I was sitting next to Tom Udall in a meeting earlier today, and I am sure he would want to convey his warmest regards and his thanks for all the help you provided when you were a member of his staff.

You will grow jobs, you will grow the kinds of jobs that we need to be developing in our country right now, blue collar jobs that we so desperately need to increase

This is not a place to cheat. This is not a place to cheat the budget.

Maintaining marine infrastructure such as public ports is essential to our Nation's economic future.

One of the major roles of government is to create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

This has been a great hearing

This is a victory, I think, in introducing this legislation, for bipartisanship, for fiscal responsibility.

I feel lucky to be here. I feel lucky to serve with the men and women around us on this Committee and in the Senate.

The role of the government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.