I agree. We don't know the depths and the intents.

None of these contractors had an approved disclosure statement.

Regulations are killing our country. That is not partisan.

We need to focus down and put somebody in charge of science, technology, and math but not 12 different agencies.

We are responsible for allowing all of the duplication that has come because we have passed the legislation and appropriations bills that have actually caused it.

Well, it is because we are lazy legislators. What we decide is we will pass a bill and grant maximum flexibility to the bureaucracy.

If you don't know what you want, you are not any different than the agency that is passing a grant out there.

You need to know what you want before you write it, what you intend and what you expect.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To prevent the creation of duplicative and…

Mr. President, I will call up my amendment No. 500. I also tell the Senator from Maine, I will very much consider her recommendation in terms of trying to put it on the second half of this. But I wish to call it up now, and then maybe ask…

Madam President, in a few minutes, I will offer an amendment, but first I wish to speak about a bill that myself and 26 other Senators have introduced today, and it is called The Enumerated Powers Act. Our Founding Fathers understood the…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Enumerated Powers Act of 2011

I think it is tremendously important. We lose hundreds of billions of dollars of GDP to intellectual property theft every year.

Mr. President, I have spoken on this earlier in the week. I will not spend a great deal of time today. Thanks to the majority leader, we will have two votes this afternoon on items that I think are representative of critical problems in…

Madam Chairman, I really kind of thought we were working on the annual agriculture appropriations bill, with the discretionary money, the programs that are handled on a year-to-year basis, but it seems we are going to debate the farm bill…

Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment. This is clearly an attempt to legislate policy through an appropriation bill, contrary to the intent of regular order, and this is not the way that we should do business. Arbitrarily…

Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5 minutes.

Let me ever so briefly say that I oppose the amendment. It, once again, is the process of cutting funding for the Market Access Program, in effect legislating farm policy through the appropriations process. It is not appropriate under…