Mr. Speaker, today is day 1,001 since the Senate has passed a budget. In addition to that, Mr. Speaker, the President has notified this body that his budget will also be late this year. Now, that may be a couple days, it may be a week--we…

Mr. Speaker, due to a clerical error, I ask that the name of the gentleman from Michigan, Justin Amash, be removed as a cosponsor from H.R. 3609. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Oklahoma…

Mr. Speaker, I recently read about a couple who found out there was a problem in their pregnancy, that their child had not developed all four sections of its heart. So, at 23 weeks, they did a surgery where they reached in with a needle…

I will tell you, living in Oklahoma City, and if you come through Oklahoma at all, you'll drive around and you'll see our beautiful land, and you'll drink our beautiful water and breath our beautiful air; but you'll also realize that there…

Dr. Hicks, in a taped interview about the shift in strategy in January 2012, you maintain that DOD can still execute a two-war strategy.

As of December 29, 2011, of the 599 that have been released, 167 we can document have returned to the fight.

I have a question for my colleagues. Are we proud of this process? Have we fulfilled the responsibility to the citizens of this country with this process? Nobody can answer yes to that. And yet nothing seems to change. You know, $3.5…

I thank the Senator for his question. I think the people need to know what the GAO actually does. The GAO is nonpartisan; they are not Democrats or Republicans. They are accountants, and they are investigators, and they are the most…

If I could respond, that $25 million is going to go to one company--we don't know where yet--that is well-connected and well- heeled to either a Member of the House or the Senate. Mark my words, that is where it is going. Somebody--one…

I would just respond to the Senator, I don't know for sure because we haven't been able to go through the whole bill, and the creativity associated with parochialism and getting reelected by helping the very well-connected few in this…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I'd like to congratulate Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks for an exceptionally hard job which yielded, frankly, a very good product. This bill spends less--$70 billion…

I thank the gentleman very much and appreciate that. I urge passage of the bill.

Mr. President, I guess I am one of several Senators who doesn't know for sure what is going to happen tonight or tomorrow. I do know that we have one very contentious issue in the pipeline. Several people have been talking about this. I…

Mr. President, let me thank the chairman of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to have this colloquy because something has happened that shouldn't have happened. It happened over on the House side, and we had no control over it…

Mr. President, I rise today to give tribute to Mr. Earl Devaney, who will be retiring from 42 years of public service at the end of this year. In an era when the American people have a record-level of distrust in government, Mr. Devaney…

We should be focusing on the work that you have to do, not petty politics and personal ambition.

Now, that delay really inures to the benefit of the applicant, to give them time.

The NRC must focus on safety, and it must take action without delay if nuclear power is to maintain the public trust.