Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time in recess for the caucus luncheons count postcloture. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana is recognized.

Let me respond to one point. I realize that part of the problem is the way the regulators are coming down a little harder than they probably need to in some instances with our community banks in an effort to prevent the banking system from…

Madam President, I thank both Senators from Ohio and from North Dakota who have been two of the most effective and passionate leaders for ending this recession, creating jobs for the middle class, jobs focused on Main Street as opposed to…

The level of distrust at BP is at an all-time high.

If this woman wins, it's going to have to be a very good year.

They can recover. They're going to have to -- and Eric is right. They're going to have to answer this.

This is the first time I saw the whole clip just out of sympathetic embarrassment.

She can do a Sarah Palin and just call all the media impotent and limp, which has got to be my favorite thing.

The level of distrust down here to BP is very, very high. And I don't know, the 93 million, better to put 93 million into helping people out as opposed to these ads.

She's the commander in chief of the National Guard. If there's a prison riot. If there's some kind of an outbreak of a health issue, you know, something like that.

It is a dangerous line of work, and I think it's necessary.

We've got to get to the bottom. Because this industry is obviously insufficiently regulated.

I think Mr. Riley and Senator Graham, if their commission has got to look into this, and we've got to get to the bottom because this industry is obviously insufficiently regulated.

We don't have right now a real commitment on Category 5 flood protection.

I share the sentiments of Senator Landrieu that at least 80 percent of the disaster penalties be dedicated to coastal restoration efforts.

We have made Gulf Coast recovery one of the very measures of our agency's success for the next 5 years.

We should take this opportunity to help learn from them.