Ten years for a coal process is too long.

It seems to me this ought to be figured out sooner versus later, like having a three-year moratorium to get a resolution of the problem.

I would also recommend that you make sure--it looks to me like you expedite the timeline for input.

What is happening is you are either having to try to mine around you or you are holding up that mine, but it creates a real problem because they are still mining that area, they just have to skip the coal.

In the last few months more than 175 Members of Congress from both parties and both Chambers have expressed concerns about the FCC's proposed set-top box rules. Even the Small Business Administration has weighed in with concerns about how…

So you would say building a pipeline is a win in terms of more energy, a win in terms of jobs and a win for the environment because it is the safest way to transport energy?

I would submit that a lot of small business feel like they are being left behind and their capitalization is restricted in ways that they do not understand.

And that energy production makes us competitive in other key sectors, right, like manufacturing, construction, all those other industry sectors that create good jobs as well, wouldn't you say?

I have not given up on my challenge of making sure that there is some oversight.

Well, obviously, I do want to maybe make some points that are contrary to some of the discussion that my colleague just had. Ninety percent of all Ex-Im transactions are with small businesses that are under $10 million. The amount of…

I say thank you to my colleague from Washington. Mr. President, the level of frustration we have over this issue is unparalleled. We hear platitudes in the Senate. They usually start with: We believe in the will of the people. Let's do the…

I see other colleagues here ready to make presentations, but I just want to make two final points. If my colleagues want a full-throated debate, then move the nomination onto the floor and out of the committee. Let's have the debate. My…

we would like to engage in a discussion of what this means to American workers, to American exports, and to American manufacturing. I think we have worked very, very hard over the last several months to try and move this nomination…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and the Banking Committee be discharged from consideration of PN1053, the nomination of Mark McWatters for the Board of Directors at the Export-Import Bank; that the…

I share my colleague's concerns about overregulation and the burden of regulation. I have been fighting regulation that makes no sense here in Congress, and so I agree with him. But that is not what we are talking about today. We are…

I thank the senior Senator from Alaska. I appreciate that. I rise today to speak in support of the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, which we are currently working on. The NDAA is clearly one of the most important pieces of…

We cannot leave a community the size of Fort Yates unprotected.

It took out one of our communities and we had to do a lot of repair.