Mr. President, I serve on the Commerce Committee with Senator Dorgan. I thank him for his leadership. During the time we waited and dithered and didn't get this done--not you but others--have other countries modernized their air traffic…

Maybe now we need to get Sen. Klobuchar and Franken and Congressman Oberstar in a room and get some changes made.

I support the Coast Guard on its mission to ensure safe vessel operations and homeland security, but these license burdens...

So it can be more dangerous and it is more dangerous because you are underfunded and understaffed.

To obtain minimal officer safety standards as determined by the BIA, Red Lake would need a minimum of 32 officers.

I would urge you please to do that as soon as possible.

The basic one is lack of funding to hire more officers, and the responsibility for providing that funding falls on the Federal Government.

Crime on Indian reservations is an enormous problem in so many States, certainly in Minnesota.

You would think you would need three and a half times as many as normal population.

It's profoundly unfair that we continue to pay so much more for the same drugs.

I would have the federal government negotiate one price for all drug purchases.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak about the gridlock in the Senate and the effect it has on our ability to do our jobs as legislators. If you talk to the average person on the street, he or she will probably tell you that Americans are…

There is no reason why the seniors in the US should be paying higher prices than other people in the US or in other countries.

Madam Speaker, we have been talking all day about this bill that is that 2,700-page Senate bill, this bill that increases bureaucracies and bureaucrats and gives more government power and more government control. We know the American…

Direct negotiation by the government with drug manufacturers would result in a significant reduction in the cost of Part D drugs.

Thank you very much, Senator Pryor. Thank you for holding this important and timely hearing.

I did write a letter today to Administrator Jackson expressing concerns about implementing this rule next month.

As Senator Lautenberg mentioned the National Agenda that guides EPA's efforts in this area has not be updated for 10 years.