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Posted in Stuff, Tom Carper on Nov 4th, 2011
WASHINGTON — On Sunday, Nov. 6, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) will participate in the YouTube Town Hall – a monthly online forum connecting Members of Congress to YouTube users and the general public. Sen. Carper will share his thoughts on how to overcome gridlock in Congress by answering the question, “Why has partisan bickering taken [...]
Posted in Election 2012, Tom Carper on Oct 4th, 2011
Renew Delaware PAC was formed yesterday. It is organized to educate the voters of Delaware about Tom Carper’s voting record in the U.S. Senate and to encourage voters to return balance to the Delaware Congressional Delegation by defeating Tom Carper and electing a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2012. The Super PAC has no contribution limits [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Tom Carper on May 2nd, 2011
Sen. Carper Joins Sen. Feinstein and 16 Colleagues in Call for Stronger Fuel-Economy Standards Will reduce pollution, increase consumer information and save money for American families WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 16 other Senate colleagues, called for the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency to establish [...]
Posted in Tom Carper on Mar 30th, 2011
Senator Carper of Delaware just happened to be in that secret squirrel meeting with Senator Schumer that was caught on tape. You know, the one where we get this precious little gem from Sen. Schumer, “I always use the word extreme. That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.” Not only was [...]
Posted in Budget, Chris Coons, Tom Carper on Mar 4th, 2011
The balanced budget has been a good thing for the State of Delaware and many people think it would be a good thing for the country. One of them is Senator Mike Lee of Utah. He recently proposed Senate Amendment 115 to Senate Bill 23 The Patent Reform Act of 2011. The purpose of the amendment [...]
Posted in Tom Carper on Feb 26th, 2011
If this is a typical week, Tom Carper looks a definite for running again. The fact he is fundraising and repositioning himself again as mainstream indicates that rumors which say he will step aside for AG Biden are incorrect. They cleared the decks once, now it comes to waiting your turn. Markell v. Biden in [...]
Posted in Stuff, Tom Carper on Feb 8th, 2011
Obamacare has many aspects designed to kill small business. None were more onerous than the Obamacare provision of mandating the production of an IRS document, a 1099 form, for any vendor who does $600.00 worth of purchases from a business. The amount of paperwork and time required to comply with this ludicrous requirement would place another [...]
Posted in Deficit, Tom Carper, Tom Coburn on Dec 6th, 2010
Senator Carper has joined in a group of 14 Democrats who support Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo in efforts to bring the deficit commission plan to Congress. The Hill gives us some background on the Bipartisan Plan. The 11 commissioners who did vote for the plan includes a mixture of liberals and conservatives, Democrats [...]
Posted in Chris Coons, Earmarks, Earmarxists, Tom Carper, Tom Coburn on Dec 1st, 2010
Delaware’s Two Senators helped block an Earmark ban yesterday. Harry Reid pet Chris Coons spouted the party line, but Senator Tom Carper surprised observers because he had voiced support for the ban. Maybe the Language needed to be worked out. Here is the Coburn amendment, you decide. SA 4697. Mr. COBURN (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, and [...]
Posted in Taxes, Tom Carper on Nov 10th, 2010
The Federal Transportation Trust fund will fall 34 Billion dollars short in order to maintain the new level of spending for infrastructure. That is a gas tax hike of around 4 cents a gallon. That sounds reasonable to me to upgrade our aging highways, bridges, etc. So Senator Carper proposes… a 25 cent a gallon [...]
Posted in Tom Carper on Jan 29th, 2010
Okay so I didn’t look too closely at my email. Sorry Senator, please keep sending them. I will post the federal green initiative one in the first draft. Here is Senator Carper’s take on the state of the union. I think that believing the climate change agenda is a net job creator is fantasy unless it [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tom Carper on Jan 6th, 2010
Sen. Tom Carper (D-De) was a studio guest on The Bill Colley Show on local talk radio station WGMD on Monday afternoon. The hot topic with callers to the show was of course health care. As you can most likely guess, the callers were a majority against health care reform that is currently being rushed [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Stuff, Tom Carper on Dec 19th, 2009
Delaware’s senior senator is right in the mix of any healthcare compromise. It pays to keep up with his thinking. Here he is unedited. His press release is on First drafts and below the fold. Reforming Our Nation’s Health Care System — Americans will spend over $2 trillion on health care this year and that [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Jack Markell, Kauffman, Markell, Stuff, Tom Carper on Dec 4th, 2009
The details of the Public Policy polling in Delaware have been released and the news is not good for Democrats. The three top Democrat office holders have followed the nationwide trend of dissatisfaction with Democrat officials. The winner for the biggest decline is Governor Jack Markell. Polling in March gave Markell a 67% approval rating. [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tea Parties, Tom Carper on Nov 5th, 2009
Thousands and thousands (including hundreds from Delaware) came to a house call at the people’s house. The diagnosis was kill the bill. The crowd had a lot of interesting signs. My favorite was if you can’t read the bill, read the Constitution. Congresswoman Michelle Bachman,Congressman Wilson, and actor John Voight fired up the crowd. They [...]
Posted in Environment, Tom Carper on Nov 3rd, 2009
He actually wants environmental legislation to improve the environment. Democrats will likely reject that notion. They are focused more on the fiction of man made climate change than really saving lives.
Posted in Mike Castle, Regional Politics, Tom Carper on Oct 9th, 2009
Delaware The first state actually garnered the most attention with the entrance of Congressman Castle into the open senate race to replace VP Biden and Senator Carper being on national programs to defend his statement that the health bill is incomprehensible so why bother reading it. We also had mortgage foreclosure aid –Peterson and Military [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tom Carper on Oct 8th, 2009
Update Senator Carper to be on Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto at 4 P.M Today (Oct. 8 2009) to discuss these comments. Keep up the contacts to his office. It is great that we have a Senator who is not capable of understanding legislation. At least he smiles and shakes hands well. Maybe that is [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Economics, Election 2008-President, Healthcare, Open Government, Spending, Stuff, Taxes, Tom Carper, Universal Healthcare on Oct 2nd, 2009
Delaware’s very own senior U.S. Senator Tom Carper admits that he has no intention of reading the actual legislative text of the upcoming Health Care Bill. Carper calls legislative language gibberish and states that he can’t comprehend this type of language. Carper also “questioned whether anybody could read the actual legislative text and credibly claim [...]
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare, Tom Carper on Oct 1st, 2009
Senator Tom Carper has no vote of conviction on the health care debate. He votes with Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus limiting abortion and against the Rockefeller amendment for a so-called public option. He then votes against the Hatch amendments including the very important conscience clause which would prevent health care workers and hospitals from [...]
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare, Tom Carper on Sep 27th, 2009
Members of the U.S. Senate Financial Services Committee will be voting NEXT TUESDAY on amendments to keep abortion coverage out of Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) health care bill. Sen. Baucus’s health care bill explicitly includes abortion and would subsidize health plans that cover all elective abortions. Such subsidies for abortion goes well beyond the status [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tom Carper on Sep 4th, 2009
Here is a summary of my notes from the meeting with Senator Carper. I will try to keep it brief (Epic Fail!) and only bring out the key topics. I arrived at Del Tech and saw a handful of 9-12 Delaware Patriots among others waiting outside because it was, as billed a closed-door meeting. [...]
Posted in Tom Carper on Sep 3rd, 2009
New rules, You now have the right to have a representative represent you to your Senators and Representatives. A select few now have the privilege of direct representation with their Senators and Representatives. That select few have the additional right to assume the role of representing all other members within the organizations they are [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tom Carper on Aug 31st, 2009
The liberals are so dedicated to achieving a government health insurance system that they are attacking the Senior Senator from Delaware, Democrat Tom Carper. Senator Carper wants to investigate ideas that work. That puts him on the wrong side of the issue in the minds of the far left. Contact the Senator and make them [...]
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