Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend rule XXII for the purpose of proposing and…

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter dated July 20, 2010, to Senator McConnell. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, July 20, 2010. Hon. Mitch…

Mr. President, it was 2 years ago that I worked to pass and have signed into law by the President the Code Talkers Recognition Act, a bill to give Congressional Medals to the many Native American Code Talkers who served in World Wars I and…

I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer), who is a very significant participant on both the Financial Services Committee and the Agriculture Committee.

Simply to close by thanking my colleagues Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Johnson for their work on this important issue. It does make a tremendous difference in our ecology, and certainly with a $15 billion tag, the effect of losing…

Mr. President, I came here to talk about a couple of issues on the Armed Services Committee that we are going to be facing. I only say to my good friend from Ohio that, yes, it is true that 9/ 11 occurred, and that we have al-Qaida out…

Mr. President, first of all, something has happened that we haven't even talked about on the floor, and it is very timely and very significant. We all remember what has happened in the past about treaties that have come up and the…

I ask the Chair, how much time is remaining before--the Senator from Nebraska has reserved time; is that correct? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Evidently not.

Mr. President, let me conclude and say I will come back and talk about this at a later time. I do believe President Obama's pollster has some ideas that became public. I will share this last point. Joe Benenson, the President's campaign…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent I be recognized for 20 minutes, to be followed by the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Dodd. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, first of all, let me say it was my intention to come down and talk about the same subject my friend from Alabama has addressed, and I will do that if there is time at the conclusion of my first subject, which has to be said…

Mr. President, at this time, I ask that the amendment be divided in the form I now send to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has a right to have his amendment divided. The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.

That is 31,709 years. So we are going to have a $1.6 trillion deficit this year. Well, that is 50,000 years of seconds. Just this year, it is 50,000 years of seconds. Let me go into the amendment a little bit and talk about it. The first…

Madam President, I offered a rather lengthy amendment to this bill, not because I was trying to be cute, but I think the American people have got to hear from us on whether we are going to make some of the commonsense changes they would…

Mr. President, this is an amendment that will actually pay for everything we are doing. It does several things that the American people are demanding that we do. It discloses the true cost of borrowing and spending that we actually do in…

Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 4331 to the Baucus substitute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant editor of the Daily Digest read as follows: The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Coburn] proposes an amendment…

Madam President, I thank the Senator from Georgia. It does not matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative or Independent, what your faith is, what your sexual orientation is: Out of many one. But if we are not…

Madam President, how much time remains? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Twenty-six minutes.