carper: mr. president, i ask that the senator, senator boozman, who's a charter member of the senate recycling caucus be recognized to speak on behalf of these measures which he has played a key role in. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from arkansas. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. president. thank you, mr. chairman, and ranking member capito for your leadership in this area. as has been said and should be said many times more, we appreciate the great work of our staffs in getting this done. the other thing that's so important is the answers to our problems need to come from the ground up and through the recycling caucus and hearings and the list goes on and on, this is really where these bills, this is where those answers were generated from the people out that are fighting the battle. we talk a lot about the lack of bipartisanship and things. this is a great example of people working together for the common good up here. it's great for the environment in the sense that recycli

harju. >> thank you for the question chairman carper.ent is a crucial downtime and on the future of ccus carbon technologies. there's more we could be doing things like increasing the efficiency of regeneration of the use of materials to capture carbon dioxide potential utilization a critical opportunity in the research side to market these products. i also want to pick up on a question that jason touch on which is about the need for broader investments in these type elegies by there's a lot more we could be doing on the hydrogen site in more broadly as well he mentioned during your opening remarks some of the work on extreme weather and climate related events. we have had more than nine exceeding a billion dollars this year in the united states which is greater than the average between the years 1980 in 2021 so we are already seeing the impact of climate change. these investments to pay dividends in terms of reducing those long-term costs that impact the community but also there's a low-carb and economic opportunity of $26 trillion glob

carper: i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader following consultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 3999, h.r. 7776, that the carper-capito-cramer substitute to be agreed to, upon the use or yielding back of time if a budget point of order is made and the motion to waive is made the senate vote on the motion to waive and if the point of order is waived, t the bill be read a third time, the senate vote on the bill and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. carper: thank you, madam president. madam president, i might just add, what is all this about? it's water resources development act. we're trying to move it along and expedite it. i don't know if senator capito son the floor. but senator cardin is here and senator cramer and many t

carper: mr. president, i've had the privilege of serving with senator barrasso for any number of years. we were the coleads on the environment and public works committee and actually found common ground on a whole lot of issues and disagreed on a number of them as well. but on a personal level, we have, i think, a very good friendship and have had it for a number of years, good collaboration on environment and public works. i disagreed with almost everything he said, almost everything he said. and i'm not a disagreeable person, but i always look for common ground, and i'm sorry to say i didn't hear a whole lot from him today to do that. the suggestion that somehow we shouldn't be concerned about climate change, the climate crisis has visited our planet, a couple of points i would share with all of us. the united kingdom -- this was in the news yesterday, the day before, monday or tuesday of this week. the united kingdom broke its record for the highest recorded temperature multiple times on monda

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next senator carper. >> i want to back up a little bit. every now and then in the room we talk about the least of these in society. matthew 25 says nothing about when i didn't have a place to live, when i was living out of my car or under a bridge did you do anything about it. we have an obligation to do something about it. it's not all in the federal government or the committee as you know. it's a shared responsibility with state locals, nonprofits and businesses as well and we welcome you here today with that spirit in mind. to talk about housing affordability and i'm sure in the other 49 states. in recent decades i come to the hearing as a recovering governor of a state from eight years and as issues we've worked on a whole lot. when i stepped down the homeownership rate but in recent decades the rapid growth and retail prices with of the lack of housing supply made it difficult for a lot of people to find a safe and affordable housing options as we all know. the problem is especially dire today as the constituents continue to feel the

senator carper on the other side of the aisle and i introduced what's called the safeguarding american innovation act and insisted that it be included in the usica legislation in order for us to support it. that was my condition for supporting the broader usica bill. this came after we did a year long study with the permanent subcommittee on investigations that found, shockingly, how china had used what are called talent programs for two decades, two decades, to target the most promising taxpayer-paid research and researchers and to take that technology, that intellectual property back to china. we found that the american tax patience had been unwittingly funding the rise of china's military and economy over the past two decades while the federal government had done very little to nothing to stop it. in fact, when the f.b.i. testified at our hearing, they acknowledged that. they said we haven't been focused on this the past couple decades like we should have been. we're going to now and started to. they've started to make arrests and you probably heard about some of these, arresting sc

he also spoke with senator carper to see how he was feeling and to the hosts of yesterday's dnc eventank them for their flexibility. this morning the president received the president's daily briefing virtually, as you all know. he also met virtually with his economic team on the progress being made to lower gas prices for american families as you all saw yourselves. dr. jha and i spoke to the president over facetime this afternoon. i asked him if he had a message for the american people. the president said he's still putting eight-plus hours of work a day and that he wants to remind americans to get vaccinated because in his own words, it matters. look, the president hopes the country will see that while we should continue to take covid very seriously, we have the tools we need to deal with this. president biden is benefiting from two vaccines, two boosters and he's advocating for every american to take advantage of these vaccines and boosters which we have made available for free at 90,000 convenient places nationwide, and he's benefiting from paxlovid, a powerful antiviral we've mad

democrats tina smith of minnesota and tom carper of delaware are also out of the senate after testingpositive last week. their absences have left democrats unable to move several pieces of legislation, including a bill protecting the right to marriage equality. this comes as cases of the ba.5 coronavirus variant continue to rise aoss the united states, with some cies, including los angeles and seattle, considering reinstating indoor mask mandates. meanwhile, the cdc is reporting the u.s. has surpassed spain to become the country with the most known monkeypox infections since an outbreak of the viral disease began earlier this year. the u.s. has reported more than 3400 confirmed or suspected cases. the white house reportedly is preparing to name a federal monkeypox coordinator in the coming days, while the world health organization has declared a global emergency run monkeypox, the white house has yet to do this. the house select committee investigating the january 6 investigatn has revealed new details about how former president trump resisted his speechwriters' attempts to have him c

democrat top carper of delaware also tested positive last week and minnesota democrat tina smith justurned from quarantine yesterday this. latest outbreak threatens to derail the democrats jam-packed agenda at a critical time. before leaving for a month-long recess in two weeks, democratic leaders had hoped to pass a series of long sought-after items. those include bills to lower prescription drug costs, to codify same-sex marriage into law, and to boost domestic production of computer chips but with some democrats now working remotely, in particular, manchin, the chances of reaching agreements on all of those measures appear slim. covid-19 is not the only factor working against democrats. yesterday, the senate was forced to postpone a key vote on the chip bill, after many members had their flights impacted by bad weather that rolled through the washington area and other regions. joining us now, co-founder of punch bowl news, jake sherman, an msnbc political contributor, and we're happy to see you. jake, good morning. let's start there. the democrats, it is an ambitious wish list to g

he also spoke with senator carper to see how he was feeling and to the hosts of yesterday's dnc eventxibility. this morning, the president received the president's daily briefing virtually, as you all know. he also met virtually with his economic team on the progress being made to lower gas prices for american families, as you all saw yourselves. dr. jha and i spoke to the president over facetime this afternoon. i asked him if he had a message for the american people. the president said he is still putting in eight-plus hours of work a day. and that he wants to remind americans to get vaccinated because in his own words, it matters. look, the president hopes the country will see that while we should continue to take covid very seriously, we have the tools we need to deal with this. president biden is benefitting from two vaccines, two boosters, and he's advocating for every american to take advantage of these vaccines and boosters. which we have made available for free at 90,000 convenient places nationwide, and he's benefitting from paxlovid, a powerful antiviral we have made availab

. >> senator carper? >> thanks, mr. chairman. everybody already had a chance to say hello to our witnesses before the hearing began. but we're delighted that you're here grateful to you for your service and i am grateful that you're that you're you're here today. let me just say mr. rasicot? how do you pronounce your name? have you ever met the governor? former governor, former attorney general of montana. his name is rasicot and he spells it almost exactly the same way. one of you is wrong. [laughter] well, we'll come back to that for another day. he is a great guy. you would love meeting him. ok, mr. rasicot, you state that the countering weapons for destruction office was established to consolidate the department of homeland security's efforts to counter threats from biological, from chemical, from radiological and nuclear weapons. he also stated that i think in your testimony, that the the office has brought together expertise from i think four or five distinct department of homeland security components into one single office

the blue, carper blue -- darker blue, purple is where life expectancy increased dramatically in the last 25 years. unfortunately, there's yellow, orange, and even red, life expectancy is slowed or even decreated -- decreased in a few places. that's mostly due to the horrendous opioid epidemic we had as a nation. if you look at this chart, the one state where life expectancy increased the most, by far, is the state of alaska. the one area engineer the state of alaska that's increased the most in terms of life expectancy are many of the north areas, allusion island chain -- aleutian island chain. 10, 11, 13 years. in 25 years, people's life expectancy went up that much. i've asked many times my senate colleagues, give me a policy indicator of success more important than are the people you represent living longer, living longer. give me one. there isn't one. that's about as important as it gets. in my state, it's happened sph. it's happened. why has it happened? why has it happened? well, i'll tell you why it's happened. first, in a lot of these rural areas, unfortunately, the life expectan

carper: mr. president, today i rise in support of the nomination of rita landgraph for the administration of community living at the department of health and human services. i've budget privileged to know rita for over two decades to have worked with her when i was governor of delaware and in the years since then the she is a long-time delaware community leader who has previously served as cabinet secretary of the department of health and social services in delaware, which may be the most challenging of any cabinet secretary in the state of delaware. there she oversaw state implementation of the older americans act, medicaid, home and community-based services and disability services as well. she also had leadership roles with the state offices of arp, with the arc and the national alliance on mental illness which are key national partners for initiatives within the administration of community living. rita's career has been inspired by her relationships with the elderly and those with disabilities

that's why senator carper and i introduced the safeguarding american innovation act, insisting it be included in the homeland security and government affairs title of usica. again, it was and it passed. ity part of the research funding, the additional research funding to have these pro effectses -- protections around it. it would be necessary even without the funding, but another we're spending tens of billions of dollars of more taxpayer money and not providing this security. based on feedback from the law enforcement research community, the legislation goes directly to the root of the problem. it makes it punishable by law to knowingly fail to disclose foreign funding on federal grant applications. fbi wants that badly. it requires executive branch to streamline and coordinate grant making between the federal agencies so there's continuity, accountability, and coordination. it allows the state department to deny visas to foreign researchers coming to the united states to exploit the openness of our research enterprise and requires research institutions and universities to do more,