Tom Carper

DERA provides voluntary incentives to refit older diesel engines with American made technology.

I am one of those glass half-full people, and I try to find the good in every situation.

I want to thank him, and I especially want to thank Jim Inhofe for his leadership, and Sheldon Whitehouse for his leadership.

I am Tom Carper, and I approve that message.

This Department is scattered all over Hell's Half Acre. We have 40 or 50 entities that are spread all over the greater Washington area.

Thank you for raising this young man or young woman and preparing them for this opportunity, this responsibility.

This is a woman after my own heart. These guys up here have heard me talk about root causes for much of the last--I do not know how many years.

We do indeed intend to set a high bar in our renegotiation of the NAFTA.

I remain concerned about China's proposed regulations that will require U.S. cloud service providers to transfer their intellectual property.

Can you give us some assurance that the administration plans to ensure that the so-called TiSA negotiations, TiSA, I believe, is Trade in Services Agreement, don't fall by the wayside as we go forward?

I think they had a deal where, in financial services, we would be competing with a state-owned, state-operated bank that would not only be our competitor, but also our regulator.

I was a strong supporter of TPP, disappointed, however, that the TPP agreement excluded the financial services sector from the prohibition on data localization requirements.

I hope that we will take a strong interest in Canada, not just with respect to poultry, but other agriculture products.

Our same President has described the Trans-Pacific Partnership as the greatest danger to our country yet.

Our President, in a private meeting apparently last week or so, described the House-passed Republican health care bill as 'mean,' I think maybe 'too mean.'

I thank my friend for yielding. I take the train back and forth from time to time to my home State. I am going to try to get on a train later tonight to go home. Thank you for letting me have a few minutes.

I thank my friend, my neighbor from Maryland, for inviting a number of us to come to the floor today, this afternoon, to talk a bit about the Affordable Care Act. I am really honored to stand next to him here as we do sit next to each…

People buy ethanol for fuel for their vehicles for different reasons.

We have been talking about this for a long time.

We want to make sure that what we are doing, if we are going to move from E10 to E15, the effect on the environment.

This really is a good panel, and this is an issue about which people have some real serious differences.

I am very proud of this achievement.

The concern is related to the volatility in the market used by refineries to comply with the renewable fuel standard.

In 2007, Congress took a number of steps to try to change our energy future.

I applaud the author of the bill for gathering that kind of support. This is the way we ought to move a bill.