So what we have seen since, though, is not a recommendation that the President's blue ribbon commission is right, but rather a regulatory hurdle set upon regulatory hurdle set upon regulatory hurdle. Now we have a notice to lessees which…

Rarely are the goals of our country as aligned as they are now. Clearly we need economic recovery with good jobs and with good benefits for those who frankly right now have a problem with unemployment. As it turns out, we also have the…

I thank my colleague from Utah for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I couldn't disagree more with the comments that were made by the minority leader from California. What we are talking about here are high gas prices that people are paying at the…

Now more oil is going to be coming in from Saudi Arabia because of their policies. We have got to reverse this radical approach and actually create jobs in America, create energy in America and bring down the skyrocketing price of gasoline…

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a bill that will be a critical component in our efforts to recover and rebuild Louisiana's vast coastal wetlands. My bill works to address the threatening problem of coastal wetland deterioration in…

I thank the gentleman, Mr. Bishop. I am from Louisiana, and of course these leasing issues, the issues of drilling and oil production are very important to my State. And certainly any issue with regard to oil spills affects my State the…

I thank the gentleman. I will say in summary, I am from the Fourth District of Louisiana where we have a veritable Saudi Arabia of natural gas in my district, the most natural gas in North America and the fourth largest deposit in the…

Mr. President, tomorrow, May 6, will mark the 1-year anniversary of the formal moratorium placed on Gulf of Mexico energy production by President Obama and Secretary Salazar. I wish to speak on the eve of that occasion, particularly as our…

Mr. President, I rise to make a few brief remarks about the fact that this week we are celebrating National Charter Schools Week in America and in the Senate. I am pleased to join my colleague, Lamar Alexander, in cosponsoring this…

Mr. President, I urge my colleagues to vote for cloture on this important bill. It is the Federal Government's largest research program for new technologies and innovation. It is a job creator. It is widely supported by many business…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator for answering my question. I would like to submit many more things for the Record. But, again, I wish to close, because we are 10 minutes extended from the vote, by asking the Senate to please consider…

I don't know how to do this, but if we could do 3 minutes each and reserve at least 15 minutes for closure. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Time has been consumed during this debate. The Senator from New York.

Madam President, reserving the right to object, I wish to remind the Senators this isn't the only debate on the floor. We are having a cloture vote on SBIR, and we would like some time to close that debate as well. So I am open to work…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding. I appreciate the hard work that you have been doing for years, as I have, on this issue. I appreciate the comments from my colleague from Illinois who just talked about just what is…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger).

I am going to start something tonight in an attempt to engage more of our American people in the process. Mr. Speaker, I know that you know that it is no secret that America is still emerging from the recent economic downturn. We still…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. This mantra that's thrown out there, frankly, for over 2 years now, yourself, myself, we've been clamoring for policies that actually create jobs. And then when we bring forward legislation, actual…

I feel like I'm in the movie ``Groundhog Day.'' This is the conversation that we had last year. It's the conversation that we had the year before. I cannot believe that we're standing here today when we should be talking about creating…