Thomas R. Carper: “Everything I do, I think everything we do, we can do better”

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

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.

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

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