mr. carper: i ask to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you. i rise to talk about some of the observers call one of the best historically black colleges and universities in our country, it is delaware state university. home of the hornets. i was a u.s. naval officer and got an m.b.a. at the university of delaware and i went to work at the delaware economic office. we were the capital of the delaware state college. delaware state college and hbcu, not a well-funded college, not one that had the favor of, frankly, the governor, the legislator, and for the -- for the most part and a bit of a stepchild and i thought wouldn't it be great to transform delaware state college into something, a stark, memorable outstanding. and later on i'd be elected governor, about 15 years later, and have a chance to work with a fellow who is the president of delaware state university at the time and to transform it with the help of the general assembly, delaware state college and delaware state university. out of all the hbcu universities in the co

mr. chair. >> thank you, senator carper. >> thank you. before i know my colleague has to leave, i circulated earlier today a card to send to an army ranger who was almost killed in afghanistan two months ago today. and if you have a minute to sign that, that would be great, thank you. mr. chairman, i mentioned, too, three unanimous consent, i'd like to to submit data from this administration showing emission pollution, carbon pollution, in our country increasing not decreasing. >> without objection. >> the second one, to the-- i'd like to address unanimous consent to submit for the record a letter opposing the gain act from the sierra club, organizations caution if this bill were enacted it would, i quote their letter, allow enormous increases in air pollution, there by endangering public health. closed quote and completely eviscerating the clean air act, new source review, thank you, mr. chairman and one more, request, ask unanimous consent to submit for the record, studies, letters, more from the renowned public health organization form

mr. chairman. i'm let me help senator carper out with his statistics. we have looked and you appeared before the committee seven times just during the years i chaired the committee. maybe you weren't too far off. you are experienced here. let me just mention that first of all i thank the chairman for hosting this hearing. the g.a.i.n. act, the important legislation we need to streamline regulatory overreach. regulatory overreach goes far beyond the subject we talk about today. in fact, the fact that we have arguably the best economy that we have had in dsh maybe in my lifetime. two things precipitated that. one was the -- and the reduction but also regulatory relief. this is something we are sensitive to. i can remember during the four years that you had the office of air and radiation we addressed this. let me ask you, mr. homestead, talk shall it dsh we haven't really talked about job creation, which is what -- one of the things that's supposed to be accomplishment with the new source review. and so respond to that, and then also the -- how the gain a

mr. carper: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: i'd ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to talk about something that's really important, not i think to our nation and our planet but to me personally. and to my family. cochair and cofounder along with senator john boozman of arkansas of the senate recycling caucus, i'm proud to stand side by side and with all the members of our caucus on the matter of recycling and its importance. today senator boozman and i have introduced a resolution to commemorate tomorrow, november 15, as america recycles day. i'd like to say that every day should be america recycles day. for a lot of families, that's what it is. i don't have any idea how many millions or tens of millions of families recycle every day but it's a lot of people. we need even more. for more than two decades, communities across our country have come together on november 15 and they do so to observe americ