Tom Carper

What did we do about it? We shut everything down, didn't we, and we were still out of compliance?

I just want to share something with my colleagues, you and the rest of the panel.

It is my understanding that EPA's own Scientific Review Board determined that 75 ppb, the 2008 ozone standard, was not strong enough to protect public health as early as 2007, is that correct?

I would be delighted to work with you on that.

The Clean Air Act is one of the Nation's most effective environmental statutes. Simply put, the Clean Air Act works.

I think the priority needs to be, first, the health.

These delays only serve to harm the 6.3 million children in this Country who have asthma today.

In 2015, the EPA finished its congressionally mandated review of the 2008 ozone health standard.

Unfortunately, after reviewing S. 263 and S. 452, I concluded these bills significantly weaken the existing Clean Air Act.

It is little like taking your children to the doctor to see if they are sick and the doctor waiting 10 years to call you back with the test results.

On similar ground, do you think it makes sense for the EPA to consider cost when establishing a health standard?

A wall would fix that pollution problem with Mexico, a big wall.

Arbitrarily delaying implementation of the 2015 ozone NAAQS to 2025 would leave the 2008 standard which has been found to be outdated.

As Robert Frost used to say, 'We have miles to go before we sleep.'

Our Nation's clean air protections have allowed our Country to make remarkable progress.

We didn't just charge more stuff on the State's credit card.

Our President put on the table a week or two ago the idea of user fees, raising user fees, something Senator Inhofe and I have been big proponents of for a long time.

You can do the right thing and actually be rewarded by your voters.

One of the advantages of TIGER grants, as you know, is it helps leverage other moneys.

Things that are worth having are worth paying for.

I was heartened to hear President Trump's campaign pledge to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure.

The amount that we are spending today is woefully short of what we ought to be spending.

Our job is to seize the day, carpe diem, or as we say in Delaware 'Carper Diem.'

If we have good performance measures, and one of those is very likely to include safety, fatalities, that sort of thing, if we have good performance measures in place, and we are measuring performance, we ought to have an idea of which…

The 2017 report card from the Society of Civil Engineers gave our roads in this nation a D, as in dog--not delightful--dog.