
I often visit Japan and meet with the Japanese government, Madam Chair. You may well know that they are thankful to you after Fukushima, bringing LNG to the Japanese government when they were in a very, very difficult situation.
On the public record
Every politician on the site, every statement on file. Search, filter, and read the public record.
8,300+·quotes on file

I often visit Japan and meet with the Japanese government, Madam Chair. You may well know that they are thankful to you after Fukushima, bringing LNG to the Japanese government when they were in a very, very difficult situation.

Mr. Speaker, no U.S. Air Force unit has ever won more than 19 Outstanding Unit Awards. This last Saturday, I was honored to be in Fargo as the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Wing was awarded their 19th. The 119th Wing, known as…

Mr. President, I will be subbmitting a resolution in the U.S. Senate honoring the North Dakota State University Bison football team, who just won their sixth national championship in 7 years. Mr. President, I know you are a football fan…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the North Dakota State University Bisons, who, on Saturday, won their sixth NCAA Division 1 football championship in the last 7 years. When Chris Kliemen was named head coach at NDSU 3 years ago, he…

Mr. President, today I wish to discuss an important provision in the tax conference agreement that relates to the 20- percent deduction for certain passthrough income for agricultural cooperatives. I was pleased to see that the conference…

It is unbelievable to any of us that there is not a master list somewhere, especially within each agency, of what these programs are.

We are here to listen, and when you run into problems it is important to bring it back to our Committee.

I hope we can expedite your confirmation. I find you perfectly well qualified.

You will find a very open committee, a very interested committee, a very committed committee.

we cannot underestimate what a bad manager does to efficiency, what a bad manager does to morale

Mr. President, I come to the Senate floor to once again talk about the need to pass tax reform for hard-working Americans. The House has passed a bill, the Senate has passed a bill, and now, of course, we are working through the conference…

I share all of your concerns with what's going on with regard to NAFTA.

It was really eye opening for me to see and understand how you can have a level of good, solid, economic activity.

We really need a way to expedite that process.

We are number one in the country in Reclamation, number one.

It seems that we have, kind of, moved away from a NEPA process that allows for this interaction between the permit applicants and the agencies.

I would really encourage you to work with the states as much as you can, do a state-led approach to help you with that process.