We must continue to make progress and clean up our air as we address climate change.

We do not support the so-called fix proposed by Mr. Korleski.

Are you worried about the utilities increasing their emissions before 2012, sort of emitting their bank, if you will, because the banks aren't worth much of anything?

Let me follow up with this, if I could.

Congress should act now to pass the bill.

Mr. President, I am very pleased to see that the conference committee on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act retained my amendment regarding the preemption standard for State consumer financial laws with only…

I again thank the Senator. This will provide certainty to everyone--those who offer consumers financial products and to consumer themselves. ____________________

One change made by the conference committee was to restate the preemption standard in a slightly different way, but my reading of the language indicates that the conference report still maintains the Barnett standard for determining when a…

Mr. President, only this morning I was standing here and the Senator from New Mexico was presiding over the Senate. I got through half of my remarks and had to yield to the Senator from Maryland. Now that no one is on the floor, I wish to…

Mr. President, in closing, I want to come back later today and talk about the Improper Payments Act, which is going to be passed by the House today and I hope signed by the President, to speak about why that is another important step to…

Mr. President, I rise today to applaud, really, to share with our colleagues an important step by Congress to curb waste and, I think, fraud within the Federal Government. Later today our colleagues over in the House, where both the Acting…

Mr. President, I rise today with my colleague Senator Bennett to introduce an important and bipartisan piece of legislation that will help protect American's from identity and financial theft. As you may have heard in the news, in 2009…

Goals have to really reflect both qualitative and quantitative pieces.

I suspect that this is not all fraudulent or improper payments, but my guess is some of it might be.

OK. We are well into our vote. I am going to just take about 2 more minutes, and then I am going to run and vote.

I think your audit has pointed out an area that Medicare needs to pay a lot more attention to.

You bet it is.

If 2 weeks goes by and you do not hear any questions, you are free and clear.