C000174 1947-01-23 3080 513 Hart Senate Office Building http://carper.senate.gov/contact/ 202-228-2190 Thomas 'd':4 'de':5 'sen':1 'thoma':2,6,8 'carper':3,7,9 M 300019 Carper Thomas_Carper Richard Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE] 1231 N00012508 7207 Democrat 202-224-2441 Presbyterian DE Tom Thomas Carper 3.41176470588235 http://carper.senate.gov 300019 Person democrat Thu Nov 19 11:12:52 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...a North Dakota Democrat, has pushed “co-ops,” or nonprofit, member-run insurance groups that would provide coverage, and Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, is floating the idea of having the government set up a private, nonprofit firm that would 'co':14 'op':15 'run':20 'sen':28 'set':42 'tom':29 'firm':47 'idea':37 'plan':6 'push':12 'co-op':13 'float':35 'group':22 'insur':21 'north':8 'senat':1 'would':24,49 'carper':30 'dakota':9 'govern':41 'health':4 'member':19 'privat':45 'provid':25 'reform':5 'unveil':2 'coverag':26 'delawar':32 'democrat':10,33 'nonprofit':17,46 'member-run':18 'kansascity.com':50 6736771 true true daylife KansasCity.com http://www.kansascity.com/ OK http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1579489.html 300019 Person sen\. Thu Nov 19 22:18:40 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...the administration requested $1.9 billion in federal funds to bolster accounting and monitoring of government spending. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, said in a statement Tuesday night that the news "shows that we have a lot to do here in the federal 'd':28 '98':3 '1.9':11 'bad':6 'lot':44 'sen':24 'tom':25 'fund':15 'hous':2 'news':38 'said':30 'show':39 'feder':14,50 'night':35 'spend':23 'white':1 'carper':26 'govern':22 'account':18 'billion':4,12 'bolster':17 'delawar':29 'monitor':20 'payment':7 'request':10 'tuesday':34 'administr':9 'cnn/money':51 'd-delawar':27 'statement':33 6739583 true true daylife CNN/Money http://money.cnn.com/ OK http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_mostpopular/~3/JsYekkZZQD8/index.htm 300019 Person sen\. Wed Nov 18 11:12:23 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...the administration requested $1.9 billion in federal funds to bolster accounting and monitoring of government spending. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, said in a statement Tuesday night that the news "shows that we have a lot to do here in the federal 'd':28 '98':3 '1.9':11 'bad':6 'lot':44 'sen':24 'tom':25 'fund':15 'hous':2 'news':38 'said':30 'show':39 'feder':14,50 'night':35 'spend':23 'white':1 'carper':26 'govern':22 'account':18 'billion':4,12 'bolster':17 'delawar':29 'monitor':20 'payment':7 'request':10 'tuesday':34 'administr':9 'cnn/money':51 'd-delawar':27 'statement':33 6726937 true true daylife CNN/Money http://money.cnn.com/ OK http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~3/Il6PYmpHz7I/index.htm 300019 Person senate Wed Nov 18 11:12:23 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...who receive overpayments and by offering bonuses to local governments and other entities that reduce improper payments. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Fiscal Management, applauded the administration's effort, ad 'd':29 'ad':45 'del':30 'say':7 'sen':25 'tom':26 'post':48 'rise':5 'bonus':14 'd-del':28 'feder':37 'local':16 'manag':39 'offer':13 'reduc':22 'senat':34 'carper':27 'effort':44 'entiti':20 'fiscal':38 'govern':2,17 'improp':23 'receiv':9 'applaud':40 'overpay':10 'payment':3,24 'chairman':31 'question':1 'administr':6,42 'washington':47 'subcommitte':35 6726938 true true daylife The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ OK http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7b0c6fe7f7637b0363b5a13062d98ec8 300019 Person senate Wed Nov 18 11:12:23 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Affairs: $1.2 billion, or 2.7 percent. That included improper payments in the pension and other compensation programs. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who chairs a Senate panel on federal financial management, said he worried that the latest numbers "may stil 'd':31 '98':3 '1.2':11 '2.7':14 'del':32 'gov':7 'may':49 'san':51 'sen':27 'tom':28 'said':42 'stil':50 'chair':34 'd-del':30 'diego':52 'feder':39 'manag':41 'panel':37 'senat':36 'union':54 'worri':44 'affair':10 'carper':29 'improp':6,18 'includ':17 'latest':47 'number':48 'tribun':55 'billion':4,12 'compens':25 'financi':40 'payment':9,19 'pension':22 'percent':15 'program':26 'union-tribun':53 6726936 true true daylife San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.signonsandiego.com/ OK http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/18/more-than-98-billion-in-improper-govt-payments/ 300019 Person senate Wed Nov 18 22:19:42 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Affairs: $1.2 billion, or 2.7 percent. That included improper payments in the pension and other compensation programs. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who chairs a Senate panel on federal financial management, said he worried that the latest numbers "may still 'd':31 '98':3 '1.2':11 '2.7':14 'del':32 'may':49 'sen':27 'tom':28 'list':9 'said':42 'star':51 'chair':34 'd-del':30 'feder':39 'manag':41 'panel':37 'senat':36 'still':50 'worri':44 'affair':10 'carper':29 'govern':7 'improp':6,18 'includ':17 'latest':47 'number':48 'stripe':53 'billion':4,12 'compens':25 'financi':40 'payment':8,19 'pension':22 'percent':15 'program':26 6734124 true true daylife Stars and Stripes http://www.stripes.com/ OK http://feeds.stripes.com/~r/starsandstripes/general/~3/aS72bmBeAIA/article.asp 300019 Person sen\. Tue Nov 17 22:24:22 -0600 2009 Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...two fuel cell buses are a tremendous step forward," said Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., who was at the event on Monday along with Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Wilmington Mayor James Baker. "The university has been a leader in this. We have pulled hard to try 'd':38 'r':23 'bus':6 'del':24,39 'new':4 'rep':19 'sen':34 'tom':35 'tri':58 'two':9 'buse':12 'cell':11 'fuel':10 'hard':56 'jame':43 'mike':20 'news':61 'pull':55 'said':18 'step':16 'along':32 'baker':44 'castl':21 'd-del':37 'event':29 'green':5 'mayor':42 'r-del':22 'campus':8 'carper':36 'leader':50 'monday':31 'delawar':60 'forward':17 'journal':62 'tremend':15 'univers':46 'wilmington':41 6722515 true true daylife The Delaware News Journal http://www.delawareonline.com/ OK http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091117/BUSINESS/911170327/1003/RSS01 300019 Person senate Tue Nov 17 22:24:22 -0600 2009 Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., is working on an alternative to the government-run health insurance proposal that Majority Leader Harry Reid says will be part of the Senates health care reform bill. I think weve threaded the needle, Carper said during an inter 'd':11 'del':12 'run':22 'say':31 'sen':7 'tom':8 'bill':41 'care':5,39 'news':55 'part':34 'plan':6 'reid':30 'said':49 'weve':44 'work':14 'd-del':10 'draft':2 'harri':29 'insur':24 'inter':52 'major':27 'needl':47 'senat':37 'think':43 'altern':3,17 'carper':1,9,48 'govern':21 'health':4,23,38 'leader':28 'propos':25 'reform':40 'thread':45 'delawar':54 'journal':56 'government-run':20 6722514 true true daylife The Delaware News Journal http://www.delawareonline.com/ OK http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091117/NEWS/91117031/-1/RSS08 300019 Person sen\. Mon Nov 16 22:07:14 -0600 2009 Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Sen. Tom Carper got his political science MBA from Delaware in 1975. The university can certainly boast that Delaware is "the epicenter of politics," as ... 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Yes, Senator , which is prec '98':1 'goe':33 'say':35 'tom':9 'yes':41 'cato':6,46 'mean':26 'part':22 'prec':45 'seem':20 'estim':31 'feder':17 'manag':19 'senat':14,42 'would':39 'carper':10 'improp':4,29 'result':38 'billion':2 'broader':25 'financi':18 'liberti':7,47 'payment':5,30 'without':34 'chairman':11 'democrat':8 'understand':23 'subcommitte':15 6736769 false true google blog Cato @ Liberty http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/ OK http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/19/98-billion-in-improper-payments/ 300019 Person sen\. Thu Nov 19 22:18:34 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn), $442080. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del), $409982. Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), $395400. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), $374588. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa), $339896. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), $332700 ... 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Tom Carper again: “We're trying 'd':11 're':44 'buy':31 'new':20 'sen':7 'tom':40 'tri':45 'hour':2 'hyde':25 'john':8 'line':6,48 'mass':12 'plan':33 'plum':5,47 'reid':18 'said':17 'abort':15,35 'amend':26 'enabl':28 'happi':1 'insur':32 'kerri':9 'peopl':29 'right':16 'would':22 'carper':41 'd-mass':10 'provis':21 'coverag':36 'exchang':39 'preserv':23 'roundup':3 'support':14 6736770 false true google blog The Plum Line http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/ OK http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/happy-hour-roundup-115/ 300019 Person democrat Thu Nov 19 22:18:34 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 “It goes without saying that these results would be completely unacceptable in the private sector, as they should be in government, especially at a time of record deficits,” said Democratic Senator Tom Carper, chairman of the Senate ... 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The exchanges are not sche 'go':24 'day':30 'may':15 'tom':7 'care':3 'fail':39 'meet':41 'open':33 'plan':21 'sche':48 'vote':4 'polit':5,49 'senat':1 'state':37 'updat':6,50 'would':23 'afford':42 'appeas':16 'believ':9 'carper':8 'effect':26 'health':2 'immedi':27 'public':20 'requir':43 'exchang':32,45 'skeptic':18 'democrat':17 'compromis':13 6734122 false true google blog Political Update http://thefastertimes.com/politicalupdate/ OK http://thefastertimes.com/politicalupdate/2009/11/18/with-support-for-health-bill-still-in-doubt-reid-prepares-for-initial-vote/ 300019 Person senator Thu Nov 19 22:18:34 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), a member of the environment panel, asked Kienitz whether the administration was planning for a new transportation funding mechanism. "We're working hard to prepare internally," Kienitz replied, before adding that ... 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