Tom Carper

...picking up Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) - but there's no guarantee it would fly in the House. Enter "The Hammer," an idea from Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) States that lack affordable choices would be required to offer a national insurance program...

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...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...

In this article: Peter Orszag, Medicare, Barack Obama, Accounting methods, Waste, U.S., and E mail

...Administration planning and construction program. -Social Security Administration: $8.0 billion, or 1.2 percent. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who chairs a Senate panel on federal financial management, said he worried that the latest...

In this article: Medicare, Waste, Peter Orszag, Health and Human Services Department, Recession, Unemployment, Housing and Urban Development, and Federal Highway Administration

...contractors 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...

In this article: Peter Orszag, Waste, Medicaid, and Medicare

...chamber and if you talk to centrists the only word you hear is trigger: there's the Snowe trigger, the "hair" trigger and something Senator Tom Carper, a centrist Delaware Democrat, is calling the "hammer. " Carper is trying to build...

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