There's also the issue of Canada being the--having the third largest oil reserves in the country.

I request an opportunity to speak for up to 10 minutes on the pending energy legislation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Keystone XL Pipeline

I want to thank you for your help on the Water Bank Program, and your folks are working to implement it.

I am here to offer a substitute amendment to the Menendez act, which is currently under consideration on the Senate floor. That is S. 2204. The substitute amendment I would like to offer is legislation I have authored along with Senator…

Crop insurance is going to be more important, in terms of a cost-effective safety net.

I wish to add my voice to those of my colleagues paying tribute to the senior Senator from Maryland, who recently became the longest-serving female Member of Congress in American history. Senator Barbara Mikulski and I were first elected…

Crop insurance is a partnership between the Government and farmers.

Clearly, we're not going to have direct payments.

We're going to need to emphasize crop insurance.

If we allow more access would that tend to help create more supply? Would that tend to reduce gas prices?

I know you and I share a common belief that blender pumps are a good thing, can help give consumers more choice, better pricing, help stimulate renewable fuel, production, and distribution.

But there's a big difference when it's hauled by rail which adds a significantly higher cost to it.

I do want to emphasize those two programs to you, U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, also, the Ug99 Barley Stem Rust Research Program, because both saw 30-percent reduction.

Are you willing to encourage that potatoes be included with the WIC supplemental nutrition program?

I thank Senator Johanns. It is good to be with him. Also, to Senator Lamar Alexander from the great State of Tennessee, it is great to be with him as well. We share, I guess, the common experience of serving as Governors and certainly…

I wish to inform my colleagues that this morning I filed the budget deeming resolution for 2013 pursuant to the Budget Control Act passed last year. This resolution sets forth the spending limits for fiscal year 2013 at the levels agreed…

the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was signed into law by the President last August, set in place budget enforcement measures in the Senate for budget years 2012 and 2013, as well as established caps for 10 years to address…

I think that it depends on the snapshot that you're taking with respect to when you're evaluating production on public land.