Delaware Senator Tom Carper Isn’t Running for Re-election (1)

Sen. Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat who leads the Environment and Public Works Committee, announced Monday that he’s ready to conclude a public service career spanning nearly half a century and more statewide election wins than President Joe Biden.

At a press conference in Delaware, Carper said he would “run through the tape over the next 20 months and finish the important work that my staff and I have begun on a wide range of fronts, many of them begun in partnership with Democratic and Republican colleagues in the Senate and in the House.”

Carper, 76, is the Senate’s only ...