mr. 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

mr. carper: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. 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 i

mr. 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

mr. 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? >> 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

senator carper and we are very proud as well so i think you are going to get a good answer. >> thank you mr. germanic first let me answer senator carper's question in part by mentioning the neighborhood home investment act. you would be disappointed if i didn't. thank you for the comments that you made. i wasn't in the committee room at the time for the cosponsorship on this and certainly senator wyden and senator crapo we have support from both branches of government. but i want to acknowledge the work mr. roberts in his organization has done with regards to developing the legislation. we developed it as a needed to deal with affordable housing. covid-19 has underscored this even greater. inflation has made it even more urgent in this regard and we are talking about the appraisal gap but the cost of building and renovating exceeds the value and therefore cannot be done under the regular commercial circumstances. this leads to the decline of neighborhoods as well as making the wealth gap in america. so, can you just elaborate as to how the current markets which is anything but a predictable

mr. 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