We must facilitate good faith negotiations between creditors and debtors at all times.

It is highly unusual to publicize findings, especially ones that are used to compare institutions, without being able to reproduce your calculations or 'show your work'.

I think this committee is uniquely situated to provide those kinds of recommendations that can actually help grow the economy.

the President has put in place a Testing Action Plan to improve assessment systems and eliminate unnecessary or low-quality assessments.

I believe Ms. Cobert has the right qualifications. I think the country and the office will be better off with her confirmation.

I want to be one that is counted as supporting her nomination, and I think the country will be better off.

I find her to be a very competent person who is a breath of fresh air who actually has the background to run this agency.

I know a rancher in my district, and he came to me. This is a humble man. He is not a radical.

I would like to express some frustration to you if I could, and it is not directed at you. I am expressing this frustration to you on behalf of the people that I represent back home.

We want to work with you to protect it, but we just beg you, you know, to use those of us who live there and love it as a resource as we try to find some ways to do both.

We have got to find a way to defuse that. We have already seen the outcome of that, and it is not going to get better as long as they feel like the Federal government has a boot on the throat of these family ranches.

I think it is clear that you and I might see the world differently in many important respects, but I appreciate your sincerity.

If we do not make some progress in helping these folks feel like they are not being ignored and, in fact, being abused by the Federal government, then we are going to have situations out there that just become worse.

Our intent without any question is to maintain livestock grazing.

I know a teacher in my district, and I come from a family of educators. And one county has actually had to declare an education emergency.

I know a coal miner back in a very rural, very poor district. There are two coal mines in Utah, well, in my district, very high-quality coal, clean coal.

Was there any wrongdoing? I didn't find any.

today I wish to discuss S. 483, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, which the Judiciary Committee reported out by voice vote right before we went into recess. At the outset, I would like to thank Senator…