senator carper. >> thanks. again, thanks very much for your testimony and for your leadership for a short period of time, and actually for a long period of time, ms. provost. again, we need secure borders and we need to have a strong, well-equipped, well-trained border patrol force. i believe we have that. and probably the best we've ever had. certainly the most expensive we've ever had because of the monies we spend to support the thousands of people who work under your leadership. i want to tell a quick story. i told this before. some of my colleagues have heard it, but i want to tell it again. delaware has three counties. john mccain's in one of our smallest counties, we welcomed him when he was there on a campaign. we raise more chickens there than any county in america. and we process a lot of chickens, and a lot of folks who process those chickens come from guatemala. and so, we have a significant guatemalan presence in sussex county. two years ago, when the surge of unaccompanied children really got goin

. >> thank you, senator carper. i would be remiss if i didn't just thank you on your partnership the last two years. as ranking member and bipartisan committee, we have to keep track of this. we passed 83 pieces of legislation out of this committee, most unanimously. we are up to 30 piece legislation having been signed into law in some way, shape or form. a record. when i first joined this committee, you and senator cole burn set. and you continued that tradition. i'm going to miss you my ranking member and look forward to working with my next senator mccaskill. she's not here. she will be my ranking member. i wish you well. >> i promise not to go far. it's been a pleasure to be your wing man and served with everybody. it was a good group. >> and the customs border union, appreciate their attendance as well as looking forward to working with them, again, to make that commitment to secure a border in 2017 and beyond. it is is traditional of this committee to swear in witnesses. if you will both rise and raise your ri

chairman, thank you for pulling this together today. >> thank you, senator carper. would be remiss if i didn't also thank you for just your partnership over the last two years. you know, as ranking member and as a bipartisan committee, we actually keep track of this. we passed 83 pieces of legislation out of this committee, most of it unanimously. we're up i think over 30 pieces of legislation having been signed into law now in some way, shape or form. that's a pretty good record. i think certainly valued the example that senator lieberman and senator collins set when i first joined this committee, certainly which you and senator coburn set, and i think we've continued that tradition. so i'm going to miss you as my ranking member. i look forward to working with my next senator mccaskill is my next -- she's not here, but apparently, she's going to be my ranking member. and certainly wish you well in your new assignment as well. >> thanks. i promise not to go far. >> okay. >> it's been a pleasure to be your wingman, you bet. and to serve with everybody. it's a good gr

i would like to turn it over to senator carper. >> thank you to senator ayotte, just step down as deputy secretary of the department of homeland security and i am reminded on the heels of what the chairman said, right after world war ii, instant churchill was the prime minister of the country and 6 months later, lost reelection. the reporter said to him it the time, is this the end? he replied famously it is not the end, not the beginning of the end, this is the end of the beginning. it has been a joy to serve with you and thank you for your service and great having you on this committee. this is the end of the beginning. that is all i had to say. i want to start by thanking you for bringing us together and eyewitnesses for joining us in the debate and taking on tough jobs. important jobs. i am impressed with you and folks you live with, your service lifts those guys, i look forward to being back there with you in the not too distant future. it is an important issue for this committee and for me. to be our chairman, ranking member and member of this committee. everybody in this room and

carper: mr. president, i sent up a few minutes ago a wrote to you that i hand wrote that said flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale. don't breathe too deeply up there. i also recall walking into a hearing with gina mccarthy over at the house of representatives, a joint house-senate hearing. a lot of people had been asking questions, like four hours. it came to my turn to ask a question. i said is there any question administrator carter you haven't been asked. she said, i wish somebody would ask me if i needed a bathroom break. there are 30 senators in the cloakroom that need to speak. if you need one, let us know. it's a joy to sit here and listen to all these stories. our congressman, governor-elect has come and gone, has gone back over to the house. i used to work for you. you're one of those great mentors. i want to say to chris coons for pulling this all together and making possible just a wonderful tribute. this is the senate at its best. it's so wonderful to see some of our still youn

carper: mr. president, i sent up a few minutes ago a wrote to you that i hand wrote that said flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale. don't breathe too deeply up there. i also recall walking into a hearing with gina mccarthy over at the house of representatives, a joint house-senate hearing. a lot of people had been asking questions, like four hours. it came to my turn to ask a question. i said is there any question administrator carter you haven't been asked. she said, i wish somebody would ask me if i needed a bathroom break. there are 30 senators in the cloakroom that need to speak. if you need one, let us know. it's a joy to sit here and listen to all these stories. our congressman, governor-elect has come and gone, has gone back over to the house. i used to work for you. you're one of those great mentors. i want to say to chris coons for pulling this all together and making possible just a wonderful tribute. this is the senate at its best. it's so wonderful to see some of our still youn

. >> thanks, senator carper. it would be nice if everybody had nice simple names to pronounce like carper. but i want to thank both of our witnesses for your really many years of service to this nation, it's truly appreciated. your thoughtful testimony, your thoughtful answers to our questions and truly look forward to working with you in the next congress and few years. that being said, the hearing record will remain open until december 15 at 5:00 p.m. this hearing is adjourned. [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] [ indistinct conversation ] >> this weekend, c-span's cities tour, along with our cox communications cable partners will explore the literary life and history of scottsdale, arizona, nicknamed the west's most western town. on book tv on c-span 2 hear about life on route 66 known as america's mother road, is route 66 w

brief remarks this noon from a holiday card that i got from my former colleague in the senate, tom carperware. on the card, he quoted this african proverb -- if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. i think that proverb really sums aboutt no labels has been , and what we are doing here today. there has to be a new center in american politics where people with good intentions -- even if they have different ideas -- can work together to get things done for our country. if we don't have a center in american politics, we do not really have a functioning democracy. we just have a never ending battle of factions trying to impose their narrow views on one another. that too often in recent years is exactly what it has felt like in america. it feels like we are coming apart when we should be coming together to solve our problems. fact beneathopeful all of the partisan slashing back and forth. at the level of the american people, we are not as divided as a lot of people would suggest. , theu look at the polling majority of people in america are in the center-right to ce

i'm honored to be joined by my senior senator from delaware, tom carper, who will make the closing remarks this afternoon. before we begin, i'd like to remind my colleagues that there will be a reception for the vice president in the mansfield room after we conclude here, beginning sometime after 4:00. we have many senators who wish to speak, and so we will move quickly through the order. and i encourage my colleagues to submit their remarks for the record, those who are not able to speak in the next hour. their remarks will be combined with all the other remarks given on the floor and the resulting speeches printed, bound and presented to the presiding officer. mr. president, in a place known these days for some disagreements, my colleagues, our colleagues, republicans, democrats and independents, are all here today because we agree on one powerful and simple thinr the difference that you've made in your decades in public service. the greatest honor of my life is to serve in the seat that you held for 36 years, and not just literally this seat in the senate but also a seat on the 7:15 amt

the cuts in 2013 and that leaves them with one-third of their original delaware then governor tom carpermington as the site of think of headquarters. >>>ds raiser is going on in trenton part of the the mcdonald's ongoing commitment to the community. the money raised will go to fa >>> new jersey is trying to expand their benefits for families that lost a family member in military action. a majority leader luis greenwal gold star family, incdigo a spo child or legal guardian and establishes a program for state colleges and universities. >>> time for a check of the highways and by ways for your thursday night. matt pellman is in the center with the update. >> almost at friday you can but slow going on this thursday. southbound side of blue route, 476 jamming from this points at villanova tolima, springfield. but earlier issues including the accident on 95 southbound by 420 are gone and still southbound speeds are in the low 20s, a couple of crashes on the boulevard, one southbound past tyson and southbound by masher in the median, lets check the red zone on the vine street expressway, headl

. >> thank you, senator carper. it would be nice if people have simple names to pronounce. i do want to thank both of the witnesses for many years of service to the nation. it is actually appreciated. your thoughtful testimony, your answers to the questions, and truly look forward to working with you certainly in the next congress, over the next few years. again, thank you. that being said, the hearing record will remain open until december 15th, 5:00 p.m. for submission of statements. this hearing is adjourned. >>> tonight on american history tv, veteran stories, from world war ii, corey yeah vietnam, afghanistan and iraq medal of honor recipients and military women, it all starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> this week on c-span. tonight, states count their elector votes for president of the united states. we'll have coverage in illinois, pennsylvania, michigan and virginia at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tuesday night at 8:00, jerry greenfield, co founder of ben & jerry's ice cream. >> the idea that we couldn't sell enough ice cream in the summer in vermont to stay in business, that t

activists who are saying we want you have had young people sitting in the offices of schumer and carper and a bunch of other folks saying don't actually shake hands with the white supremacist white party at this moment. there are trends going on at this right now that are not reaching up to the question of who -- you know, the leadership rules and the congress. but that you will start to see in 2017, '18 and primaries. there's as much energy at the base of the democratic party right now that there was at base of the republican party or the tea party. >> there's a simple explanation for why she wanted the math, for democrats. two-thirds of the house democratic caucus comes from the west coast or the eastern seaboard. >> as much as the ocean -- >> the base is not middle of america. tim ryan from rust belt ohio. when we first started in the business, chuck, a lot of these things were called southern democrats, midwestern democrats, blue dog democrats. they are gone. >> isn't that the problem? given the electoral college? >> that is the problem. but the geography problem means they're not b

i'm honored to be joined by my senior senator from delaware, tom carper, who will make the closing remarksefore we begin, i'd like to remind my colleagues that there will be a reception for the vice president in the mansfield room after we conclude here, beginning sometime after 4:00. we have many senators who wish to speak, and so we will move quickly through the order. and i encourage my colleagues to submit their remarks for the record, those who are not able to speak in the next hour. their remarks will be combined with all the other remarks given on the floor and the resulting speeches printed, bound and presented to the presiding officer. mr. president, in a place known these days for some disagreements, my colleagues, our colleagues, republicans, democrats and independents, are all here today because we agree on one powerful and simple thinr the difference that you've made in your decades in public service. the greatest honor of my life is to serve in the seat that you held for 36 years, and not just literally this seat in the senate but also a seat on the 7:15 amtrak train down fro

the bill has a total of 20 cosponsor, including seven of my democratic colleagues mccaskill, carper, mikulski, wyden, baldwin, manchin, and peters. and at the judiciary committee hearing in august of last year, senator leahy also agreed that this access problem needs to be fixed by legislation because it is -- quote -- blocking what was once a free flow of information. end of quote. even the justice department witnessed at that hearing disagreed with the results of the office of legal counsel opinion and supported legislative action to solve the problem. as of today a large majority of senators, the las vegas review journal, and i say that for the benefit of senator reid who one time objected, "the new york times," "the washington post," the good governments group like the project on government oversight and citizens against government waste, all supporting the restoring of the intent of that act through 579. the intent of the act, i want to emphasize, was destroyed by one bureaucrat writing a legal opinion that's been a crunch for a lot of people that don't want to cooperate with th

carper: mr. president, i sent up a few minutes ago a wrote to you that i hand wrote that said flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale. don't breathe too deeply up there. i also recall walking into a hearing with gina mccarthy over at the house of representatives, a joint house-senate hearing. a lot of people had been asking questions, like four hours. it came to my turn to ask a question. i said is there any question administrator carter you haven't been asked. she said, i wish somebody would ask me if i needed a bathroom break. there are 30 senators in the cloakroom that need to speak. if you need one, let us know. it's a joy to sit here and listen to all these stories. our congressman, governor-elect has come and gone, has gone back over to the house. i used to work for you. you're one of those great mentors. i want to say to chris coons for pulling this all together and making possible just a wonderful tribute. this is the senate at its best. it's so wonderful to see some of our still youn

it's my understanding, i would say, that senator carper was interested in five minutes. senator merkley was interested in five minutes. i was interested in five minutes. and i think senator enzi was interested in five minutes. could i ask my colleague if he would amend his u.c. so that each of those four senators would have five minutes? i think that would take us to about 3:10 as opposed to 3:00. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. the assistant majority leader. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i would like to accommodate my friend from washington, but the house message containing the continuing resolution is due here at 3:00. there's a number of procedural matters that need to be attended to so we'll have senators coming to the floor for that purpose. i'm told that after that process which shouldn't take very long occurs, then the floor will be wide open for senators to speak as long as they like. so i would object. the presiding officer: is there objection to the original request? without objection. mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator fro

>> i will quote back in july 9, 2014 when the chairman of the the:the hearing on this and senator carper said how do we change the mindset to say i want my kids to stay here or have an opportunity, have a future, how do we do that and i think it was the right question in terms of how do you stop the flow and i think we have a difference of opinion in terms of the proper way to stop the flow and again i would love to hear the conditions so that there isn't the incentives to push but i'm also talking about the pull factor and putting up a chart, we see that of those that have come here unaccompanied in 2013, 2014 and 2016 at least the last three years we are returning less than 4%. so if you come from central america and by the way, it is easy to get in here, you just walk across the bridge, turn yourself in and give our apprehended a processed and dispersed. they have access to social media by more than they realize and create an incentive, paid the fee, take a dangerous journey because if you get into america you are going to stay. isn't that an enormous problem and one of the reasons we

and with that i would like to turn over to ranking member carper. >> just follow up. i was going to run into send out in a couple of our colleagues in the senate dining room with secretary mayorkas. i'm reminded just on the heels of what chairman has said about kelly. right after world war ii, winston churchill you will recall was the prime minister of the country, and six months later the he lost reelection. he wa was not reelected in 14% o at the time, for you, mr. church, is this the end? he replied famously, this is not the end. this is not the beginning of the end. this is the end of the beginning. it's been a joy to serve with you. and thank you for your service. it's been great having on this committee. and for you, my friend, this is the end of the beginning. all right. with that having said that all have to say this morning. i have more to say than that. i want to start this plan by thinking you mr. chairman for bringing us together and witnesses for joining us today and take on tough jobs and will import jobs, our jobs, challenging jobs. i'm impressed with y

senator alexander, senator cardin, case circumstance kaine and my senior senator tom carper will conclude the session today. i yield the floor to the senator from ten teen. mr. alexander: mr. president? the vice president: there is a reception coming up. i will try to set a good example. the author of roots once told me after hearing a speech, he said, "may i make a suggestion?" i said, yes. he said, if when you make a speech you would say, instead of making a speech, let nile story. someone might actually listen 20 what you have to saivment i've always remembered that. let me tell one short story about a vice president who knows thousand get things done. nearly two years ago you and president obama-and-invited senator corker and me to be to noville with you when the president announced his community college program. and before that we had lunch privately. and we talked about many things. but the president talked about his interest in precision medicine. he said, mr. president -- i said, mr. president, we're working on something we call 21st century cures. why don't we fold that into your

not include a lesser known but to me no less important provision, one that my senior senator, tom carper and i have fought tirelessly for and one that's important to a manufacturing company in my home state of delaware and dozens of companies in dozens of states. last year when congress passed at the end of the year the omnibus spending package, we looked on the cutting room floor through an inadvertent staff error, provisions to extend a series of clean energy tax incentives known as the 48c investment tax credit or i.t.c. not all of them, just for a few narrow or defined areas and in a case that i care most about for fuel incentives. these incentives have bipartisan support and have proved successful in creating new technologies and good manufacturing jobs in this country. we've had heard a lot of talk in the last campaign about bearing in and fighting hard to save manufacturing jobs in the united states while extending the i.t.c. is the chance we've had here today, we have had in the past year to do just that. there are tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds, likely thousands of compa

brief remarks this man from a holiday card that i got for my former colleague in the senate, tom carperlaware. on the card, he quoted this african proverb. if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go fire, go together. and i think that proverb really sums up what no labels has been about and what we are doing here today. there has to be a new center in american politics where people even if they have different ideas can work together to get things done for our country. because if we don't have a center in american politics, we don't really have a functioning democracy. we just have a never-ending battle of factions trying to impose their narrow views on one another. that too often in recent years is exactly what it sounds like in america. it feels like we are coming apart when we should be coming together to solve our problems. but here is the hopeful fact beneath all the partisans flashing back and forth. at the level of the american people, we are not really as divided as a lot of people would suggest. if you look at the polling, the majority of people in america are in the ce

for my brief remarks this noon from a holiday card i got from my former colleague in the senate tom carperlaware. on the card he quoted this african proverb, "if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together." and i think that proverb really sums up what no labels has been about and what we are doing here today. there has to be a new center in american politics where people with good intentions, even if they have different ideas, can work together to get things done for our country. because if we don't have a center in american politics, we don't really have a functioning democracy. we just have a never-ending battle of factions trying to impose their narrow views on one another. and that, too often in recent years, is exactly what it's felt like in america. it feels like we're coming apart when we should be coming together to solve our problems. but here's the hopeful fact beneath all the partisan slashing back and forth. at the level of the american people, we are not really as divided as a lot of people would suggest. if you look at the polling, the majority of peopl

carper: i just want to thank our colleague from ohio for recalling the memory of the life of john glenn and his wife annie. i was privileged to know him. i am an ohio state graduate, rotc, retired navy captain and huge admirer of john glenn and his bride. one of my fondest memories of him was at an ohio state football game a few years ago. at half time, as the senator from ohio knows, one of the big attractions of the high school football games at half time is script ohio where the band spells out the word o-h-i-o, and usually one of the tuba players kind of dances around for a while and dots the i. fans are used to that happening. on this particular occasion, no tuba came forward to dot the i, but john glenn and annie went on the field and dotted the i, to the amazement and delight of 1,000-some fans -- 100,000-some fans. later i was up in the press box. maybe my friend from ohio was there as well. what a joyous memory of that. then we ran for president -- he ran for president briefly, too. i was pleased to support him. he didn't stay in the race for long. i thought he was a great mari

toward the end of last year, senators johnson and tom carper took the lead over in the senate side.ting. president-elect trump in 1999 in a book entitled "america we deserve" talked about it, having medical countermeasures to deal with bio incidents. he can make america great again, and we want the vice president to make america safe again, particularly from biological agents. >> tom ridge, thank you so much for being on the show. >> thank you, mr. secretary. >> good holidays. merry christmas. >> up next, the year ahead. "time" magazine is looking at what's in store for 2017. inside their new issue, and predictions next on "morning joe." there is no typical day. there is nothing typical about making movies. i'm victoria alonso and i'm an executive producer... ...at marvel studios. we are very much hands-on producers. if my office... ...becomes a plane or an airport the surface pro's perfect. fast and portable but also light. you don't do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for... ...decades if you don't feel it in your heart. listen, i know my super power is to not ever sleep. that's

i'm honored to be joined by my senior senator from delaware, tom carper, who will make the closing remarks this afternoon. before we begin, i'd like to remind my colleagues that there will be a reception for the vice president in the mansfield room after we conclude here, beginning sometime after 4:00. we have many senators who wish to speak, and so we will move quickly through the order. and i encourage my colleagues to submit their remarks for the record, those who are not able to speak in the next hour. their remarks will be combined with all the other remarks given on the floor and the resulting speeches printed, bound and presented to the presiding officer. mr. president, in a place known these days for some disagreements, my colleagues, our colleagues, republicans, democrats and independents, are all here today because we agree on one powerful and simple thinr the difference that you've made in your decades in public service. the greatest honor of my life is to serve in the seat that you held for 36 years, and not just literally this seat in the senate but also a seat on the 7:15 amt