Here is a hard question for us as a nation to struggle with. We have people in great need...

as we have seen marriages collapse, especially among the poor, we have seen a greater need for government to engage.

We were in the process--in fact, GSA was in the process of putting out stimulus dollars totaling $5.85 billion.

During the time of this conference, at that same month unemployment in the Nation was 9.6 percent.

This would not come to light unless your office would have started it.

Let me just mention a couple things that are jarring on this to me.

The President had just recently rebuked public companies who did conferences in Las Vegas that had also received TARP money.

So to say all these previous conferences, like Oklahoma City and New Orleans and all this are the same, they are not.

How many Federal programs can show a return on investment of 15-25% for each and every year since the early 1950's that the PL-566 program can.

The State Association of Kansas Watersheds (SAKW) supports funding of the P.L. 83-566 (PL-566) watershed program as an inclusion in the Conservation Title of the 2012 Farm Bill.

The forefathers that thought prevention was much wiser to deal with must be turning over in their graves at the way we look at flood control today.

we need a 5 year bill so that we can give certainty to our farmers

it is going to be a very challenging process

Mr. President, today I am pleased to introduce the reauthorization of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, NAWCA. This bill has overwhelming bipartisan support, and I am pleased to have Senators Boxer, Vitter, Landrieu, Cochran…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to be recognized for up to 25 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I rise to introduce S. 2248, a bill that would clarify the States' sole authority to regulate the process of hydraulic fracturing at the State level as opposed to the Federal level. I am pleased to be joined by Senators…

I thank the Chair. Madam President, I voted against the motion to proceed to the Menendez bill on Monday because, quite frankly, it is just a bill to continue raising gas prices. I talked for quite some time yesterday on the Senate floor…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent I be allowed to speak for 30 minutes and following that the Senator from Rhode Island be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________