Mr. President, literally every month of this year, I have come to the Senate floor to do something that one of our former colleagues, Ted Kaufman, who served as our Senator for 2 years after Joe Biden became Vice President--Ted used to…

These Executive Orders have, as you heard here, broad bipartisan support.

One of those is by passing legislation that is clear and unambiguous, and it reduces the need for the regulators to come in and kind of put the meat on the bones.

One of the things we need to do is develop consensus around the legislation that has been introduced

We are grateful for all of you.

It is a false choice to say that we cannot do both. We have to do both, and we need to use some common sense.

We try to help people, and one of the best ways to help people is to make sure they have a job.

But a big part of that is access to capital--nurturing our environment and access to capital.

We can have both, and we have over the years strengthened our economy and, frankly, provided safer places for us to live, work, and breathe.

What the Executive Orders say and what the codification of it says, it is talking about regulatory impact analysis, not just benefit-cost analysis.

I think that was a point you made, too, Senator Carper, in your opening remarks, that we care about the benefits and the outcomes of the regulations.

That is a helpful thought. Thank you.

It is not that we do not have the ability to have an impact on the regulations. We actually have a lot of opportunities to provide input on the regulations.

OK, good. We are going to come back--I will come back to you with some questions in writing.

Well, I am a U.S. Senator. There are 100 of us. We work with 435 Representatives and the President and the Vice President to make the rules for our country. We call them 'laws.'

I actually jotted down while others were asking questions some of the ways that we in the Congress can help contribute positively or negatively to this process.

I also think that Senator Heitkamp's bill is really valuable because it does--right now we would be making those decisions without good data.

It was a very moving, sobering, inspiring moment.