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Male Voice 1: When the people of Delaware elected Tom Carper to Congress, he had already proven himself as an experienced public official.

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Tom Carper had been Delaware's State Treasurer for six years, and long before anyone else talked or worried about balanced budgets

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and government spending, Tom Carper was already solving those problems. He worked with the Governor and

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the Legislature to put the State back on a sound financial footing. For six years Tom Carper's job

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was to help balance the State budget. And he did. And the State's credit rating rose from one of the worst

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in the nation to one of the best. So it was no surprise that Carper jumped into the battle to reduce the federal deficit.

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He organized the freshmen Congressmen and led them to fight wasteful water projects and the powerful tobacco lobbyists.

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And they won. And last year, Tom Carper turned back more than $20,000 of staff expenses to the federal government.

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Congressman Tom Carper. Experience Delaware depends on. Male Voice 2: Paid for by the Carper for Congress Committee.