A statement for the record by Ranking Member Sensenbrenner submitted by the Honorable Kelly Armstrong.

If large publishers are having this problem, you can about imagine how adversely affected smaller publishers that do business in North Dakota are by this issue.

I would ask unanimous consent to enter Congressman Sensenbrenner's statement into the record.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it recess until 9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 23; further, that following the prayer and pledge, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use…

Mr. President, like my colleagues and like people from around the country, North Dakotans are very proud of our military heritage. In fact, North Dakotans sign up at a rate four times the national average. I think you will hear that theme…

But unfortunately, we are in D.C. and, never allowing a political opportunity to go to waste, they are going to get marked up in Rules Committee, and we are going to vote on bills this week that just quite frankly have no chance of…

we had two sets of packages that could come to the floor clean this week that would pass, they pass the Senate, the President could sign them by the end of the month, but that is not going to happen.

I believe that prescription drug pricing, it is a conversation that I get, it is one of the biggest ones we get in our office both in D.C. and back in our offices in North Dakota, and it should be a bipartisan endeavor.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 174.

Mr. Speaker, Americans care about clean air; Americans care about clean water; and the U.S. needs to be at the table for these discussions as we move into a global economy. But, Mr. Speaker, a bad deal is worse than no deal at all. Make no…

I think it's reasonable to allow USPS some modest diversification, but once they--if you think about the USPS making a major leap, say, into banking, or a grocery delivery, and other sorts of things like that, it makes no sense, because we…

The only way out, in my view, is privatization. And I think, you know, Congress can put this off and put it off. In the end, it's going to happen because it has to to survive, it has to diversify.

I think with a privatized post office, Congress could, like most European countries, ... you could fund it.

We need to let USPS defend itself. And the way to do that is to privatize them.

I thought it was a very good report. They didn't go far enough.

You need to protect consumers by opening up the USPS to competition, at the same time, giving them the flexibility.

I think there's a death spiral here. I think that ultimately Congress is going to have to do a major reform.

Mr. President, in a little bit, we are going to have the opportunity to vote to confirm Drew Wrigley as the next U.S. attorney for the District of North Dakota. First of all, I want to thank Leader McConnell and Leader Schumer for…