However, the expanded RFS creates an unrealistic mandate for conventional corn ethanol by prohibiting the use of biomass from new crop acres.

So the private sector, the free market, in fact, had failed, is that correct?

Does the public have any interest at all in wanting to see some kind of rational compensation limits in a company it has bailed out, the biggest in its history?

I think it probably would.

Does that seem a rational concern on our part to you?

So it is not entirely arbitrary.

Senator Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, compared it to 'the old Soviet Union.'

If our current burn rate is $5 billion a month, if it will go to $10 billion a month by next summer...

I am privileged to join my colleague from Virginia, Senator Mark Warner, here today for the purpose of introducing to this Committee Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara M. Keenan.

I believe that the President has made an extraordinary choice in nominating Justice Keenan.

It is important to the people of Virginia and to the proper functioning of this court that this vacancy be filled as expeditiously as possible.

Congress strengthened its commitment to conservation in the 2008 Farm Bill.

The farm bill also created new conservation programs that are aimed at enhancing cooperation and flexibility among producers and conservation organizations.

Our farmers and ranchers, through the assistance and incentives provided by these programs, have voluntarily worked to help reduce soil erosion, increase wetlands, improve water quality, and preserve farmland and wildlife habitat.

I join my colleague and good friend, Jim Webb, in wholeheartedly endorsing Justice Keenan for this very important position.

We do hope that this nomination will be moved expeditiously.

I think President Obama made a wise choice in nominating Justice Keenan for this seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

I think right now what's important for the United States--although we have our reservations, and we've stated those very clearly--but, in the current environment, we think much more dialogue and discussion inside the country is an…