We had record flooding in North Dakota, record flooding in our State this year.

I previously filed committee allocations and budgetary aggregates pursuant to section 106 of the Budget Control Act of 2011. Today, I am adjusting some of those levels, specifically the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations for…

We worked very hard to create a good environment so they would come invest and figure out how to do hydraulic fracturing economically.

I think that's the right place to end up. That's very important in terms of implementing these recommendations.

Hydraulic fracturing, I believe, is very important to the future energy development of this country and--and meeting our energy needs both in oil and in natural gas.

I ask unanimous consent that we charge time during the quorum call equally between the two sides. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the Chair, and again I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I am here to speak about disaster aid and the acute need we have in my State for assistance to deal with a disaster that occurred earlier this summer in Minot, ND. These are pictures from the valley in Minot, ND. Minot is constructed on…

I previously filed committee allocations and budgetary aggregates pursuant to section 106 of the Budget Control Act of 2011. Today, I am adjusting some of those levels, specifically the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations for…

I look in my daughter's eyes and she asks me the question: Am I going to be the one or the three, Mom?

The Act's passage last year took many people by surprise, not only among the usual Beltway skeptics here in Washington, DC but across Indian Country.

I believe its basic purpose is threefold.

I came to the Senate in 2000 to plead for a change in the law.

last week, pursuant to section 106 of the Budget Control Act of 2011, I filed new committee allocations, new budgetary and Social Security aggregates, and a revised pay-as-you-go scorecard. Today, I am adjusting some of those levels…

Chairman Murphy is now serving his sixth term as the Chairman of the Standing Rock people.

It is absolutely true. In handing off the ball in this discussion, I want to go back to the trade adjustment assistance, which I mentioned earlier. There were a number of things the administration wanted to see before bringing these trade…

I thank Senator Portman, and I thank Senator Johanns for organizing this discussion on a very important issue, a timely issue. It is good to be here with Senator Roberts, with Senator Blunt and Senator Isakson. I think, coming from our…

We have to do everything we can with the dollars we have. It is hard right now, because we are in a financially difficult situation.