Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to waive the 60- vote threshold on this vote and have a voice vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 50) was…

Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII, including germaneness…

Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII, including germaneness…

Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII, including germaneness…

Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII, including germaneness…

Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII, including germaneness…

I thank the chairman. I will go on and allow him to object to further amendments I have so it will be in the Record that I did attempt to offer them. I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 80.

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 81.

I ask unanimous consent to call up amendment No. 82 and set the pending amendment aside.

I thank the chairman for his words. I will take him at his word and work with him and allow him to look at some of these. There are only two airports in West Virginia that this would have an impact on. Both of them are less than 75 miles…

Mr. President, is there a pending amendment? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The second-degree Hutchison amendment to the Inhofe amendment is pending.

Well, if the chairman will assure me I will have the opportunity to, No. 1, debate Senator Leahy's amendment----

Thank you. Let me confine my remarks for a few minutes to how I see where we are from my perspective. My hope is that I can offer some amendments, at least get them pending, and then discuss with the chairman--I just discussed them with…

I told Senator Leahy last night that I would be happy to lift my objection once my amendments were pending, and we can have a debate on his nongermane amendment.

It is interesting. We have a nongermane amendment that is outside the bounds of the Constitution, doing something that is not the role of the Federal Government, that we are going to expand the cost at a time when we are bankrupt, and five…

Fortunately, promoting American agriculture is simple.

I look forward to hearing the testimony of Secretary Vilsack and the views of my colleagues on the state of the farm economy and on the direction of Federal farm policies that could make or break it.

The bottom line is Washington is being met with a critical choice that will have major consequences down the road: We can promote the one piece of good news out there today, or we can pour cold water on it.