Thomas R. Carper: “If you want us to, we just might do that.”

People ask me what I am proudest of in my life, and I always say, raising three boys, with a big assist from their mom.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

Not really. I have just come from the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, which is having a hearing on the Key Bridge, the bridge in Baltimore that was badly damaged.