My colleague had a question. Mr. President, I yield the floor. By the way, Mr. President, I appreciate your staying late, 3:30. And it is important work. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Ted Stevens

Mr. President, on November 18 of 1923, a young couple living in Indianapolis, IN, George and Gertrude Stevens, welcomed their third child to the world, and they named him Theodore Fulton Stevens-- ``Ted,'' for short. And like all new…

With that, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess until 2 p.m. There being no objection, the Senate, at 1:06 p.m. recessed until 2 p.m. and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Ms. Rosen)…

We need your support for funding these, I don't know if they are private companies.

We urge you to push federal agencies to work with us to develop co-stewardship agreements for federally-managed lands and fisheries.

The loss of our critical salmon is ripping and tearing apart the fabric of who we are as Yup'ik and Dene people.

I really hope that we could move forward with a just path and that the tribes are listened to and heard, and their opposition to this project as a majority of the tribes are opposed.

We can never thank enough those who have stood to defend us and our Country's freedoms.

subsistence matters, our villages matter, salmon matters, and our way of life matters.

Failure to do so will be a death blow to my river, to my people, and our survival, before we go extinct.

I want to thank each of you for your written comments and what you have shared here for the committee and community.

Again, it is not going to be a perfect solution, but hopefully it is a stepping stone in the right direction.

If we don't fish, we don't eat. It is pretty basic.

Moving the Office of Subsistence Management under the Interior Secretary was, as I said, a step in the right direction.

We, the end users, the little people, the people that matter, have been silenced, we have been ignored.

The record will remain open for two weeks now.

The way we are going, yes, we are going to see extinction of salmon within 10 years.