Thomas R. Carper: “One of the Ranking Members here was a fellow named Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma, who was a climate change denier.”

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

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.

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

I think that's really disgraceful, and it's unacceptable that the local DC courts have vacancies that last years because the Senate fails to act in a timely way.