Thomas R. Carper: “Fortunately, the adversities of e-waste also present us with some clear opportunities.”

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

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.

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.