So basically for almost $50 billion--$50 million--is it billion?

BP is being appropriately forward leaning in bringing all the resources to bear to control this spill.

Well, that is very good to know--my time is up--because we have a project that will meet those guidelines, as you know, and we are excited about the possibility.

I really think that this is something specific that we should look at.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the chairwoman's request to suspend the rules and pass S. 3253. The bill is a simple 3- month extension of all the Small Business Administration's core programs until July 31, 2010. This bill is…

Mr. Speaker, it's always fun to listen to the debate because clearly both sides are saying the same thing but disagreeing to it. I am actually referencing some of the things we're speaking of. We are told that the health care bill is going…

we are both recommending somewhere between $50 million and $100 million in addition.

it is going to be interesting to see how it turns out.

I hope my colleagues on the Small Business Committee will join me as cosponsors of this bill.

we are not going to let other countries around the world, make sure that their rural populations, that their people have access to very high bandwidth and ours do not.

how fast, how cheaply, and how quickly we can get broadband Internet service to the small businesses in this country to help them create the kind of jobs necessary to be successful.

the best thing that could happen is to remove all those State barriers and let local governments do what local governments do best: respond to their constituency.

Both Ranking Member Snowe and former Chairman of this Committee, Senator Kerry, have done a tremendous amount of work on broadband in the past.

Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to a great Civil Rights leader of our Nation, who passed away recently. I come to the floor in her memory to pause for just a moment and to remember this great lady. Tuesday, the Nation lost a powerful…

Madam President, I am so pleased to come to the floor this morning to acknowledge that in the Capitol today there are 17 young women from Louisiana, Florida, New York, and Washington who are my special guests for Take Our Daughters and…

Let me explain why I object, as I have explained very openly, very clearly every step of the way. Michael Walsh is one of the top nine officers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is part of the key leadership. Senator Dorgan is a…

I will yield when I am through. One of my top concerns is the critical outfall canals in New Orleans. It was the breaches in those canals that led to 80 percent of the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans. It was those breaches that were…

Mr. President, I am disappointed. I am disappointed. I am disappointed my distinguished colleague is continuing to simply blindly, in my opinion, be a fierce defender of a bureaucracy which is truly broken. Not a pawn in anything, a member…