Wayne Allard: “I yield 1 minute 15 seconds to the Senator from Alabama. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alabama is…”

my amendment will cut the Federal deficit and eliminated Government waste by reducing spending 5 percent on programs rated ``ineffective'' by the OMB and use the savings to pay down the Federal debt. Five percent is the expected increase…

And we had the MTBE versus ethanol, and that was a big debate, and it was to reduce the air pollution.

I still shake my head over the ability of the Federal Government to reach, or maybe I should say overreach, into the lives of the American people.

Secretary Kempthorne also indicates the critical nature of allowing the Department to issue these regulations in order to attract the private investment necessary to develop the oil shale resource. Let me emphasize that this is not an…