We just can't stop drugs at the border, along the Southwest Border. They're coming through maritime channels, ship channels, oceans, and bayous.

the Coast Guard saves 13 lives, responds to 65 search and rescue cases, provides a presence in all major ports...

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a bill that will be a critical component in our efforts to recover and rebuild Louisiana's vast coastal wetlands. My bill works to address the threatening problem of coastal wetland deterioration in…

Mr. President, I rise to make a few brief remarks about the fact that this week we are celebrating National Charter Schools Week in America and in the Senate. I am pleased to join my colleague, Lamar Alexander, in cosponsoring this…

I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Now more oil is going to be coming in from Saudi Arabia because of their policies. We have got to reverse this radical approach and actually create jobs in America, create energy in America and bring down the skyrocketing price of gasoline…

I thank my colleague from Utah for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I couldn't disagree more with the comments that were made by the minority leader from California. What we are talking about here are high gas prices that people are paying at the…

Mr. President, tomorrow, May 6, will mark the 1-year anniversary of the formal moratorium placed on Gulf of Mexico energy production by President Obama and Secretary Salazar. I wish to speak on the eve of that occasion, particularly as our…

I thank the gentleman. I will say in summary, I am from the Fourth District of Louisiana where we have a veritable Saudi Arabia of natural gas in my district, the most natural gas in North America and the fourth largest deposit in the…

I thank the gentleman, Mr. Bishop. I am from Louisiana, and of course these leasing issues, the issues of drilling and oil production are very important to my State. And certainly any issue with regard to oil spills affects my State the…

In the letter, he adamantly opposes H.R. 567.

That is what is driving the fiscal crisis at the State and at the local level.

There is no sense in doing it.

They are not proposing anything to deal with rising health care costs. And that is just going to shift the burden more and more on working-class families throughout the Nation.

If we want to have a serious conversation about the fiscal hole we are facing at the State and Federal and local level, let us talk about the real cause of what is driving these budget deficits, which is rising health care costs.

I would remind the gentleman that it is a little unseemly to impugn motives of Members of the Committee.

Given that some have raised the specter of a Federal taxpayer bailout to cover the unfunded liabilities of these State and local plans, it is important for the Subcommittee to review this issue...

Thank you, Mr. Kurtter.