The American people are not opposed to a regulatory scheme. They really do want clean food, clean air, clean water.

The moment that people feel like they work for us rather than we work for them, it is a toxic environment.

The challenge is, if you have 676 rules and 14 of them have gone through the review process.

Let us talk about just the rules that are listed as rules.

I am trying to help the agencies in this to say things cannot sit out that we know have been a problem for this long.

You have to hurry and implement it before Congress changes it midstream.

I think those are some great examples on what can be done.

We are faced with this law of large institutions that tends to dumb everything down to a lowest common denominator.

I think we need a larger defense budget, but investing in more of the same I think is not the solution.

If we want to be the world's sole super power and to be able to engage on all the continents around the world to shape peace and stability, and then fight and maintain multiple contingencies simultaneously, we need to pay for it.

Mr. President, yesterday 41 Senators refused to have a substantive debate on an issue that is critically important to all of our constituents--the scope of Federal authority under the Clean Water Act--and voted against a motion to proceed…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of the remarks of the Senator from Nevada I be recognized, unless an intervening minority Member should come in, in which case that I be recognized after that minority Member…

Madam Chair, my colleagues, I would urge you to reject this amendment and all the amendments. This process should have happened 6 months ago. It should have happened in committee. It should have happened in regular order. But we weren't…

Mr. Chairman, I think it is relevant that we think for a moment about the Bank. Some of my friends here who press these amendments--which, I would remind you, you should vote against all of them--say that they are not trying to kill the…

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Chairman, I will note to my colleagues that I think the world of the gentleman from Georgia. He is a wonderful fellow as he is trying to help his people, but politics is like life--a lack of action is an…

I thank the ranking member, and I thank the chairman. Mr. Chair, I would simply note that the provision requires U.S. business to factor in new costs of a guarantee for repayment to the Ex- Im Bank, in addition to the fees and interests…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member. Mr. Chairman, first, before we talk about the substance of the amendment, let's look at the lay of the land. I am a farmer by trade. That is always something you do, you look at the lay of the…

Mr. Chair, once again, let's turn this amendment down. Let's turn back all of these amendments. If anything, this amendment appears to try to fix the problem that one company has in one sector in one region of the world. Some people might…