Mr. President, I know Members are following this debate carefully, and their amendments. Let me bring everybody up to date. It is about 5 after 5. We hope to have a vote around 6 o'clock, potentially two votes. We have about five…

I will object. I know the Senator is very interested in offering this amendment, and we are very interested in hearing about it, but we have now six amendments pending. So if the Senator would like to go ahead and speak about the…

Will the Senator yield for a clarification? This most certainly is an open process. What I was trying to explain to the Senator is there have been about a half dozen other Senators who have come to the floor during the day--such as Senator…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security be authorized to…

I thank the Senator from Texas. I appreciate the patience of my colleagues who are on the floor. Because we have had two or three colleagues from this side of the aisle speak, I thought it would be appropriate to go to the Senator from…

Mr. President, I see two Members on the floor. I ask unanimous consent for Senator Johanns to go next and Senator Rockefeller, who wanted to speak, and then we will try to get some sort of consent for one or two votes tonight. We are still…

Please let me correct myself. Earlier today I said that Senator Coons is from Connecticut. Clearly he is from Delaware. And Senator Johanns is not on the floor, but Senator Barrasso is. It has been a long day and I apologize to my…

Do I understand the new nuclear power plants or do I not understand correctly that they have to be built so that if there is a terrorist attack and a plane is driven into them that somehow it is still protected?

Knowing that we are not speculating on what happened in Japan but just to go to the point, the backup generators, to keep those cooling units running, we have proactively addressed this in this country and there is a way if Hurricane…

Now, let me ask because when I toured the nuclear power plant near my home--I am from Louisiana so it is the River Bend Nuclear Power Plant--and as I recall they were coming up with a failsafe mechanisms to keep the generators running even…

In effect, there is going to be a postmortem done on that accident and folks are going to go in there and see what went wrong.

Now, my concern, though, is is that we are racing ahead, but there are certain laws of physics.

My concern is--because obviously others have attempted to do this, so there is a renewable energy magazine, 'Renewable Power News,' which is kind of an advocacy group for renewable power.

But will it be adequate to say power in Washington, D.C., if we have windmills turning and the wind stops to blow or the night comes or the cloudiest day, will it have sufficient capacity to power Washington, D.C.?

Now, I am struck that you mentioned the subsidies, the heightened or continued subsidies for wind and solar and other renewables.

If we can just stay on--just because I have limited time. I don't mean to interrupt. I don't mean to be rude.

if we hurt those industries, we hurt those workers. Those good jobs and good benefits are now lost and they are shipped overseas.

It seems as if we are sending out something which the folks who are employed in that field have good jobs with good benefits.