But that information is available quarterly, or do you do kind of an annual report?

the Department of Defense has an obligation to do absolutely everything that it possibly can do to be open, transparent, comforting, supportive.

Madam President, I rise today to talk about health care for veterans. This is a critical issue for many veterans who have been left behind and to the many who are not getting the care they need. First, I want to say how important it is…

I see Senator Durbin on the floor. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.

Sometimes. In any event, Mr. Chairman, thank you for that.

S. 1966 has some strong language bias, in my view, for timber contracts rather than stewardship contracts.

I want to start just by commending the work that he has done on stewardship contracts.

The West Virginia spill clearly highlights the huge impacts accidental releases of chemicals can have on our health and well being.

Reasonable environmental standards are not about burdens on the industry, they are protections for people and for taxpayers.

We must be vigilant to ensure that these cleanup costs are met by the company.

one of the reasons why the market has changed so much, is because of this technology that's been developed, horizontal drilling, but also hydraulic fracturing.

I strongly urge both nominees to work diligently to restore the role of the Federal Election Commission as a fully functioning independent Federal watchdog for the nation's campaign finance laws.

Fundamentally, the Republican Commissioners seem not to believe in the campaign finance laws that Congress has passed and that they are bound to enforce.

This is a huge amount of money flooding into the system, and I think it corrupts the system.

Billionaires may keep spending, but they cannot keep hiding.

Thank you very much, Chairman King, for holding this very, very important hearing on our democracy.

Our campaign finance system is failing and it is broken.

What DISCLOSE is about is the basic core principle of the voters knowing where the money is coming from.