Tom Carper
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Tom Carper is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Carper has focused on various issues including healthcare, environmental protection, and fiscal responsibility throughout his career. He previously served as the Governor of Delaware from January 21, 1993, to January 2, 2001, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1983, to January 21, 1993.
So what I would like for us to do is to look at each of the elements of coal-burning for electricity that creates an environmental problem for us and get on a fast-track, I say mini-Manhattan project, to solve the problem.
We want you to be the leader in figuring out how do we deal with sequestration of CO/2/, we want you to be the leader in helping us to find ways to reduce SO/x/, NO/x/ and mercury discharges and to meet an aggressive schedule.
Roughly what percentage of your mercury emissions do you think you are capturing with that approach, as a co-benefit?
I spent some time at some of those bases that Senator mentioned, Jacksonville, Mayport, those places.
I used to kid the guy who was the Prime Minister of Japan; I remember meeting with him a number of years ago.
In our economy, if you cut taxes by, a dollar, people will go out and spend $2.
Well, when I was Governor of Delaware, our administration spent a fair amount of time encouraging homeownership.
I like to think that probably for the majority of people in our country, probably, that the biggest source of capital accumulation for a lot of folks is the equity in their home.





