Let me ask about measuring success.

Tell us what you would need from us in that.

I don't want to just start a new system and leave unworking systems still sitting there unresolved.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to make a quick comment related to the markup as well, the SURVIVE Act.

Let me ask you a question that is technically related.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Chaya Koffman, who is a detailee in the Environment and Public Works Committee from the U.S. Department of Transportation, have floor privileges for the duration of the consideration of H.R. 22…

Mr. President, we are going to be moving to the highway bill. In fact, we are going to have the motion to proceed today at 2:15 p.m., and I think it is important that people realize the significance of this. We do a lot of work around here…

Right here. Mr. McCONNELL. Nobody has been a stronger advocate for a multiyear highway bill than the Senator from Oklahoma. In spite of the rather dramatic philosophical differences which exist between the Senator from California and the…

Mr. President, I appreciate that very much. I wish to say that working in concert with Senator Boxer has been a pleasure. A lot of times philosophically in this room here we disagree with each other, but then when it gets down to what we…

Madam President, I have been listening carefully to what concerns people have, and I have to remind everyone that it was June 24--June 24--that we passed this bill out of committee. We had been working on this bill for months before that…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess as under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

We have a very serious problem from the point of view of deterring particularly a country such as Iran or North Korea.

People say, 'Well, they are not crazy.' But sometimes individual government leaders such as Adolf Hitler are mad north by northwest.

Mr. President, I wish to take just a moment to speak about a subject that is very difficult for me to speak about and, quite frankly, difficult for a lot of Americans to speak about and hear about. It connects to all of us in extremely…

But in a 20-year window, I would just say almost always the people that are paying the capital up-front are going to lose.

Mr. President, in the 1960s the Johnson administration led Congress to start allotting a small amount of money--of Federal funding from the Federal taxpayers to target schools and reach out to the poorest of the poor in America and try to…

You might want to check on some of the regulations coming down in the coal industry then because that has been a pretty rapid acceleration, some of the call issues and the number of jobs that have been lost on that one.

So how do you do the indirect benefits as well as indirect costs when you deal with something like the social cost of carbon?