How utterly sick would it be for Carper to be the Senate minority leader? The answer is, so nauseatingly sick.
Minority Spot Opens for Carper
With Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) retiring, the top Democratic spot would fall to the most senior Democrat left, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.).
But Carper also could opt to stay on as ranking minority member at the Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, an arguably less divisive committee.
Carper is still not showing his cards, however. He insists he’s focused on work in the lame-duck session—the agenda includes keeping the government open after mid-December—when the House and Senate resumes the 114th Congress after the election.
“I have not yet made a decision and think we have a lot of important work to accomplish in the 114th Congress before we start planning what we will do in the 115th,” Carper said in a prepared statement.
