We are here today to talk about energy--energy for our country but also energy for our allies. This is a discussion not just about energy, it is about jobs, good-paying jobs. It is also about economic growth. It is about generating tax…

Oh, boy. To convert it, it is billions, right, it is in the billions of dollars. I don't have the exact number, but it is a huge amount. It is $1.5 million a day in my State alone so the Senator can see we are talking billions of dollars…

I thank the Senator from Arizona for his comments, his leadership, and for his willingness to work on this vitally important issue. In terms of responding to his question: OK. What needs to happen--I wish to take a minute to give an…

I am pleased to join my colleagues in a very important discussion with regard to the waters of the United States and the proposed rule by the EPA. The good Senator from Missouri, I, a Senator from Wyoming and--as has been already said on…

My point is, as we are trying to deal with this humanitarian crisis for those who truly are there in that category, we need to double-down on the law enforcement portion of this so that we know what, in fact, we are dealing with, and those…

I would suggest that there would be a huge incentive to continue that effort on the South Border if the refugees were stopped at our border.

Obviously, their Southern Border Strategy, in this case, is--it may be--their efforts to build out the Southern Border may have caused this surge. I do not know. We should be asking that question.

I am deeply concerned about on a number of levels, and you are hearing kind of a broad scope of concern for the children, the safety of the children, but also concern for the safety of our border and who are these kids.

We need to be very careful that not every kid is going to fall into that category and that not doing the metrics on the front end is disturbing.

But, again, I am very concerned that we not categorize all these kids in one basket, that it is critically important that we understand that this is more complicated than just a number of children being smuggled in for a better life in the…

We just need to make that clear. It does not mean that kids who are being smuggled do not eventually become trafficked.

We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure.

on December 30, 2013, outside of Casselton, ND, a train carrying crude oil derailed setting off a series of explosions and fire. The first on the scene that day were our local first responders from the Casselton Fire Department, a small…

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his leadership on this important issue and pick up on a point he just expressed: Why are we not demanding in this body that we vote on legislation to address this proposed regulation? As he said so…

My question to you is, very simply, first, EPA, in order to provide exemptions, has to maintain that they have jurisdiction in all these areas. That is the very point I am making to the point made by the Senator from Maryland. EPA is now…

I ask unanimous consent that we be allowed until 10:28 a.m. for the purposes of the colloquy. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would like to thank, again, the Senator from Kansas. He is somebody who has been involved in agriculture for-- well, he is still a very young man--he is somebody who has been involved in agriculture for a long time and certainly…

I am pleased to be here this morning with the distinguished Senator from South Dakota, as well as the esteemed Senators from both Kansas and Wyoming, to talk about this regulation that is clearly an overreach by the EPA. It needs to be…