I thank the Senator. He knows, because he has served so many years, how important it is to have good staff. I want to make sure we get them thanked here. I appreciate that. Implementation of this law is going to be extremely important. As…

The House and the Senate passed bills. We didn't actually go through conference committee, but we worked hard on those differences from late December through just a few weeks ago. We faced challenges working out a final agreement with the…

I thank the chairman. I just want to say to Chairman Inhofe, the bipartisanship he showed is incredible, and it showed what a significant accomplishment we could have. I also want to thank so much Senator McCain for allowing us to fit a…

I yield time to--the agreement, as I understand it, is that Senator Markey will speak for 5 minutes and Senator Whitehouse for 5 minutes and then back to the Chair.

Of course, Alex, thank you. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to use enough time here to just get through my thank-yous. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it so ordered.

Thank you very much. Let me just say that I am going to stay over. I thank the two Senators. I am going to stay with Senator Inhofe and thank additional people because I think it is that important, but we have this time agreement, and we…

Mr. President, I will just also--has the Senator finished? I just wanted to say a few closing words and thank a few more people staying to the end, but of course the chairman needs to finish his remarks.

Mr. President, let me just initially, while Senator Vitter is still on the floor here, thank him so much. He was a great partner in terms of working on this piece of legislation thoroughly through the process over 3 years. We met, I think…

Mr. President, the following information is in response to an article entered into the record by Senator Boxer of California earlier today. The Hearst News article in question was published in the San Francisco Chronicle and implies that…

Mr. President, recently we have had some very welcoming news out of the House of Representatives on the Toxic Substances Control Act. The House passed that in the last several days 403 to 12-- a wonderful, large, bipartisan majority--and I…

We sure will. Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.

I very much agree with that. When it comes to innovation, when it comes to moving in the direction of creating products that are going to be sustainable over time, I don't have any doubt that this bill is going to have a huge impact. I…

Bonnie Lautenberg is here with the Congress. We don't want to violate any of the rules. I think she is in the room with us here today. She came down today. As the Senator knows, we have a First Lady's Luncheon, and all the spouses attend…

I can manage my troops. I can follow orders and directions that are complex, that are critical issue moments in my career and in my life. But I cannot successfully deal with the burden, and neither can any of the business folks involved in…

Thank you for your service to this country and for your interest in the work of this Committee.

making sure that we are holding Iran accountable, that we are clear about what those accountability issues and measures are

we are having conversations about what-ifs but we are not talking to the folks--with no disrespect to the panel members--about really who is enforcing, who is accountable

I want to thank you for your work, particularly in Albuquerque, but I am concerned that with lack of personnel we have a backlog in those investigations.