Thomas R. Carper: “I have gone over my time. I appreciate the indulgence of my colleagues.”

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.

We need to reform it.

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.