Tom Carper

A lot of them are self-inflicted wounds, if you do not mind my saying so.

What have you heard that just ain't so?

Mark Twain once said, "It ain't so much what people do not know that bothers me, it's what they know for sure that just ain't so."

We are making major, major reductions in the Medicaid program.

If we all came together, I know we could get there.

The budget deficit would be reduced in the first 10 years by $130 billion and the second 10 years by $1 trillion.

We did not have 1 day of hearings. We had, as I recall, 97 hearings, roundtables, and walk-throughs on health care reform--97.

The idea of simply doing this, the legislation that is before us today, and not stabilizing the exchanges, which are eminently stabilizable, eminently so, is a big mistake.

This year's deficit is going to exceed $700 billion, that is 7 years into an economic expansion.

There needs to be a reduction. I hope that as we address that concern, we will keep in mind four questions.

I am all for reducing the corporate tax rate. We are not competitive with the rest of the world.

We ought to be on a trajectory where the debt is not rising faster than the economy.

We did it in early 1981 with tax cuts for the higher-income people; it did not work.

I would just reiterate how important it is, I think, for us to return to regular order, to hold hearings, bipartisan hearings like this.

Should we continue to cut the budget for the IRS? We cut it by 20 percent. Should we continue to cut it, knowing that for every dollar we cut, we lose four or five bucks?

I do not mind paying more taxes if it will erase the deficit. I just do not want you to waste my money.

Whether the Congress adopts it or not is not my business, that is your business, but some sort of policy structure like that is necessary to achieve liftoff.

One of the things that is very helpful is for you to help us develop consensus.

I think they have me outnumbered, don't they?

If carbon capture and storage is deployed in a carbon constrained world, that in fact coal can have a bright future.

If we do not continue to press for an innovation agenda, if we do not continue to deploy plants, we will lose that advantage to other countries.

Ever since President Trump announced that the U.S. would exit from the Paris agreements, I have been concerned that America will cede opportunities to lead the world in technological innovation that could both fight climate change and…

It is refreshing to have a hearing that looks at solutions to climate change, as opposed to a hearing that fuels the debate over the science of climate change.

I believe, as I have said, there are real benefits to CCUS.

One of the most important roles for our Government... is not to create jobs, but to create a nurturing environment for job creation.