Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be recognized as in morning business for such time as I may consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Mr. President, with the passage of the 2007 energy bill (EISA), Congress doubled the corn-based ethanol mandate despite mounting questions surrounding ethanol's compatibility with existing engines, its transportation and infrastructure…

Mr. President, I am here to talk about the nominee, Ms. Kagan, for the Supreme Court, but I thought I would put it in the context of how I view what we are doing. As a physician, a father, and a grandfather taking a look at where we are as…

Senator Levin has also noted that we have not funded it appropriately.

The fact is if there is data out there and if we may have a problem--and that is what you are saying, there may be a problem.

Are we going to allow fraud to steal the future from our kids?

With a large deficit that is the fault of everybody in Congress the last 20 years, not one Administration or not one President and not one party, what are we going to do together to solve the problems to get our country out of the hole we…

The fact that somebody was not prosecuted, that does not mean anything because the Department of Justice (DOJ) is not going to prosecute them if they fall under a certain dollar amount.

So you do not think it will be beneficial.

You are better than you were.

I blame us.

So Social Security had done a good job in advising them what their requirements were to advise back to Social Security when the beneficiary returned to work?

We are going to clean this up. We are going to make it easier for Social Security to do its job.

Send it to us.

I do not believe it. As a practicing physician in a poor area of the country with lots of problems, I do not buy it.

How does somebody know they have to report that to the Social Security Administration?

You have bipartisan agreement. We want to fix the problems.

I do not think Chairman Levin, once he gets an interest in anything, loses interest.