Then how is it the public is supposed to feel as though they are being heard and supported in this process if there is no new or revised EIS for public scrutiny or discussion?

Unfortunately, I was unavoidably detained and missed rollcall No. 712 today. I strongly support S. 788, and had I been present I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

There is no justice in the justice system if defendants do not have competent representation.

I urge my colleagues to support her nomination.

I particularly want to mention her career on the bench.

She's unquestionably qualified to serve on the Federal bench.

I will yield very quickly to Senator Peters after I wrap this up. Mr. President, first, I want to thank Senator Sullivan again for giving us a chance to bring housing, in a bipartisan way, to the Senate floor and just to tell colleagues…

I got back late last night from Oregon-- another round of community meetings. You can't do your job well sitting behind your desk back here; you have to get out into the community. I have had more than 1,000--really more than…

This sentence was significantly longer than that that was requested by defense counsel.

I thank my colleagues from Arkansas and Louisiana, who represent great States to go hunting in if you can't make it all the way out to Oregon. I welcome you all there. Mr. Speaker, this is a good bill, and it should pass. I urge my…

The science robustly supports dam removal on the Snake River.

It is an unachievable standard, and it is not a defined standard.

So, if the greatest threat to the planet is climate change, and the greatest success in world history is the United States' transition to natural gas, how can those two things co-exist?

Isn't it the ratepayers of the Northwest that are now going to be saddled with the burden?

I ask unanimous consent to complete my remarks before we break for the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

To gut an economy, Mr. Chairman, to gut an economy with no assurance of success is just a really bad bet for the taxpayers, and for the ratepayers, and for people.

it was bullets not ballots. Bullets were the way that policies were set when I visited Guatemala in the spring of 1980: a soldier with a gun on every corner of Guatemala City, the army going village to village killing indigenous young men…

But my real question to you, Mr. Simms, is who pays?