Tom Carper

We came up with this Nutrient Management Commission. It was farmer led, and the final result was every farm where they had poultry litter and they spread the nutrients on farm fields, they had to have a nutrient plan and how to do that.

It will not work without Federal leadership.

As Ranking Member of this Committee, I have made clear my firm commitment to ensuring that wildlife management decisions are guided and driven by the best available science.

It is a true sign of success, and it is a model, I think, for across the country.

I would be remiss if I did not mention the new provisions in this bill to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay program, the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act.

Different uniforms; same team.

Underfunding the IRS is like underfunding your accounts receivable department. No rational business would do that.

We underfund the IRS. We ask them to do more than is humanly possible.

But without a plan waiting in the wings to replace those rules, that means that the Treasury Department risks a new outbreak of the inversion virus.

And we all remember when Henry Ford said, 'Look, I want to be successful. For me to be successful, working people have to have the money to buy my cars.'

I think it would be fair to say that stirred a lot of interest on our side of the aisle.

What is needed is bipartisan tax reform that focuses on progressivity and helping the middle class.

I want to begin by saying that everyone here wishes Senator McCain a full and speedy recovery.

I am going to use that.

Any advice for what we should do with respect to funding the IRS? Please?

I want to welcome our new pages. They have been here all of 24 hours or so. I talked to some of them earlier today. They come from all over this country, and we welcome each of them. I understand they are with us for 3 weeks, and we wish…

The President's budget proposed to increase TIFIA's contract authorities we know to, I think, about $1 billion per year.

I sometimes say I learn more from my mistakes than the things I do right, and maybe this was a good lesson for us to learn from a mistake.

This has been a good hearing, and I was mentioning, in a sidebar conversation with the Chairman, you are exceptionally good witnesses; very knowledgeable and very clear and concise in your responses.

I would say you got 9s and 10s from Delaware, and my guess is from other States, too.

Are you ready for another one?

The President has called on Congress to expand the TIFIA program in order to encourage more non-Federal investments, and--stop the presses--I think he is right.

It is an important source of low cost financing, as we know, for thousands of critical projects across our country, and that includes Delaware.

Did the three of you rehearse this before the hearing started? That was pretty good.

These bills are bipartisan; they are critical for local economic development, job creation, and job growth.