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DLC | Speech | July 24, 2006
Remarks of Sen. Tom Carper at the 2006 DLC National Conversation
[I]t's time to celebrate the possible by re-building the American Dream once again.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | November 3, 2005
Cleaner Air: Affordable Cost, Priceless Benefits
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its long-anticipated official cost and benefit estimates of the rival air pollution bills. DLC Vice Chair Sen. Tom Carper's (D-DE) bipartisan "Clean Air Planning Act" was shown to be vastly superior to the president's Clear Skies proposal.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | October 21, 2005
The Meaning of Strength
By Tom Carper
Quality education is the key to a strong economy and a just society.
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DLC | Speech | July 26, 2005
Remarks of Tom Carper to the 2005 DLC National Conversation
"We don't need polls to tell us that in too many respects our country is on the wrong track. We know it is, and the American people know that it is, too. ... Like a lot of you, however, I see opportunity in every difficulty that we face today."
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 23, 2005
Mental Health Reform
By Sen. Tom Carper
The mental health system needs more than just parity; it needs fundamental reform. Fortunately, best practices that hold the potential to strengthen the system where it is weakest are emerging in some states.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | May 31, 2005
Factory Revival
By Sen. Tom Carper
American workers -- factory workers in particular -- are clearly under extraordinary stress in today's global economy. The federal government needs to respond with better policies, but in the interim, states can pick up at least some of the federal government's slack.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | March 15, 2005
Honor the Guard
By Sen. Tom Carper
In a time of war, it is only right that we should ask what we can do for those who serve our country so well.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 25, 2004
Teacher Incentives
By Sen. Tom Carper
John Kerry has proposed an innovative plan to pay teachers more, but ask more of them in return, and to reward teachers for teaching in the schools and subjects where we need them most.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | May 7, 2004
Reinventing Retirement
By Sen. Tom Carper
Innovative public-private partnerships are pointing the way toward a new approach that enlists baby boomers themselves in civic projects that will help tackle the problems their increasing numbers create.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | March 23, 2004
Mutual Aid
By Sen. Tom Carper
One of the leaders in regionally focused security planning has been Arizona, where Gov. Janet Napolitano released a comprehensive security agenda in April 2003.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 20, 2003
Spurring the Carbon Market
By Sen. Tom Carper
The CCX program looks to be a winner for Chicago, businesses, farmers, and the environment. Other locales and financial centers would be wise to follow its example.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | June 30, 2003
Charter School Incubators
By Sen. Tom Carper
As in the business world, where venture capitalists have established company incubators to provide hands-on start-up support, as well as services and physical space to promising
entrepreneurs, charter school incubators aim to help charter schools through their shaky early stages.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 15, 2003
Health Information on Demand
By Sen. Tom Carper
The nonprofit Patient Safety Institute (PSI) has started a program to help bring modern information-handling practices to the medical world.
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The Hill | Editorial | April 10, 2003
Guiding Principles for Clean-Air Legislation
By Sen. Tom Carper
Reducing harmful emissions while retaining affordable electricity is a challenge we can solve.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | February 11, 2003
Welfare to (Steady) Work
By Sen. Tom Carper and Sen. Evan Bayh
A major objective of the Bayh-Carper welfare reform proposal now before the U.S. Senate is to empower people with the tools they need to overcome obstacles to getting a job, and to help them succeed once they have one.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | December 2, 2002
Integrating Emergency Response Systems
By Sen. Tom Carper
Giving front-line personnel better tools.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | May 21, 2002
Blueprint Profile: Sen. Tom Carper
In a society obsessed with lawsuits and settlements, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) is creating safeguards against unfair practices in court.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 22, 2002
Race to the Top
By Sen. Tom Carper
How we reformed welfare in Delaware.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | March 29, 2001
Carper Introduces Charter School Bill
As the Administration and congressional Democrats and Republicans continue to circle each other in search of a bipartisan agreement on comprehensive education reform, New Democrat Sen. Tom Carper is pushing ahead with a bipartisan bill that focuses on one reform mechanism that already has strong support in both parties: charter public schools.
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U.S. House of Representatives | Testimony | March 1, 2001
Sen. Tom Carper: Five Pronged Approach to Raising Student Achievement
By Sen. Tom Carper
Students will achieve more in an atmosphere that: focuses on equal opportunity to achieve early success, provides a safe and disciplined learning environment, consists of smaller class sizes, implements academic standards with annual tests, and empowers parents to make choices about where to send their children to school.
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