So it seems like there is an opportunity here for some legislative fixes to the system.

Today, I believe the RFS has been successful in meeting each of these objectives while also helping to drive job creation and economic investment.

the RFS has indeed helped to make us more energy secure with America's ethanol industry now producing 10 percent of the Nation's vehicle fuel supply.

I have always been very supportive of this policy because I believe since its inception it has achieved many of the goals that it was first enacted to do.

We are a people who declared that we are all created equal, and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

I am proud to announce my intention to renominate General Marty Dempsey as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Admiral Sandy Winnefeld as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Our Nation is safer and more secure today because of their visionary, dedicated, and tireless leadership.

The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it.

The United States seeks to continue restoring and healing relations with Native Americans and to strengthen its partnership with tribal governments.

Tribal self-determination—the ability of tribal governments to determine how to build and sustain their own communities—is necessary for successful and prospering communities.

The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.

It is the policy of the United States to promote the development of prosperous and resilient tribal communities.

Alison Renee Lee, of South Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, vice Cameron M. Currie, retiring.

Pedro A. Delgado Hernández, of Puerto Rico, to be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, vice Daniel R. Dominguez, retired.

Mr. President, we have an historic opportunity here in the Senate. It doesn't happen very often. This is a bipartisan bill. How about that. Yesterday we had 67 votes in favor of this immigration reform package. We would have had 69, but…

I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) is necessarily absent.

Mr. President, in deference to the Presiding Officer, I am going to forgo my speech on the Stanley Cup playoffs until another Member is presiding later in the day. Instead, I wish to address the speech made by the Senate Republican leader…