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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.

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Sep 12, 2017

In a carbon constrained world, the market share for coal will drop dramatically without carbon capture and storage.

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Sep 12, 2017

We don't need to scrap our environmental standards to provide a nurturing environment for American innovation and economic investment in carbon sequestration technologies.

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Sep 12, 2017

We never say, I want to work in a partisan way; we always say we want to work in a bipartisan way.

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Sep 12, 2017

Do you believe that NRG would make the same decisions today based on this Administration's policies?

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Sep 12, 2017

Another critical role is to help protect public health and try to ensure that all Americans can pursue life, liberty, and happiness; and luckily the two are not mutually exclusive.

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Sep 11, 2017

It is not often that people get a second chance in life. We do not get a lot of second chances, but we actually do have a second chance here to fix the ACA in ways that will actually get the three goals we all share: cover everybody…

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Sep 11, 2017

I think that is a good thing to consider.

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Sep 11, 2017

I am not going to ask you to answer this question.

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Sep 11, 2017

We should be all about regular order. If folks have a good idea, let us have a hearing.

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Sep 11, 2017

I think one of them dealt with the CSRs. I think one may have dealt with restoring cuts to marketing. I think a third dealt with reinsurance. Another one was to speed up the 1332 reviews.

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Sep 11, 2017

Heritage is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Sep 6, 2017

Ms. Nablo, you mentioned the importance of CHIP for access to mental health services, for substance abuse treatments, for immunizations, basic health care, to help children be able to live a normal life.

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Sep 6, 2017

Maybe none more important than his work, I think, with Senator Kennedy on the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Sep 6, 2017

But if we allow CHIP to expire at the end of this month, many of the children in our State, on Delmarva, and across the country are going to either become uninsured or maybe underinsured.

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Sep 6, 2017

Flooding again is a risk, and we need to look at what is reasonably going to happen because of climate and take that into account.

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Sep 6, 2017

I represent a State that is the lowest-lying State in America, and we see the vestiges of climate change literally every day.

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Sep 6, 2017

Today, as we are trying to help a lot of unfortunate people in Texas and the gulf coast to recover from a desperate situation, and now we have another storm bearing down on Florida.

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Sep 6, 2017

I was privileged to serve as Governor of Delaware from 1993 to 2001.

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Sep 6, 2017

The permitting process can be a very complicated area, multiple scientific disciplines, economics, and the law.

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Sep 6, 2017

At the end of the day, we are looking for predictability.

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Sep 6, 2017

Integrity, if you have it, nothing else matters. Integrity, if you do not have it, nothing else matters.

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Sep 6, 2017

Do you know where the first Finns came to America and landed? Wilmington, Delaware.

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Sep 6, 2017

I am an advocate for nuclear power plants, done safely, but we are seeing nuclear plants being closed down across America.

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