Thomas R. Carper: “I hope to come back and be able to ask you a few more questions.”

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.

We need to reform it.

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.

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.