Thomas R. Carper: “everything I do I know I can do better.”

We are delighted to be able to move the legislation today.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.