Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burris). Without objection, it is so ordered. Budget Deficits

Mr. President, there has been a lot of discussion on the floor of the Senate in the last couple of days about small business legislation and various things dealing with jobs, and clearly we need a lot of jobs in this country. We have gone…

The best way, I think, to understand the Corps' report is to say that it puts a cheerful face on some really ugly facts.

I yield back our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is on agreeing to the motion.

Mr. President, my understanding is that all time has now been used. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. Amendment No. 4426 is withdrawn. Motion to Suspend Under the previous order, the…

Mr. President, my high school English teacher always used to say: All right, let's review things. So let's review things just for a moment. I have listened to some of this debate in the Senate today, and as best as I can tell, we have…

The Corps admits to no less than 27 categories of problems with their performance during the 2010 flood.

We're going to call the hearing to order.

I'm happy to do that--Senator Corker, similarly, has been aggressive in making certain that we have these kinds of hearings.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here.

Mitigation is not only in this compact a critical tool, but in others as well, and I think will be a necessary tool.

Senator Tester has done a really extraordinary job and is pushing very hard to resolve these issues.

We spent a long, long time and a lot of effort to put together the Tribal Law and Order Act.

I want to thank you, Senator Tester, Chairman Dorgan, it was amazing to see it happen.

I talked to President Obama about it yesterday afternoon. He is excited about it.

This bill would settle the Pechanga Band's water rights in the Santa Margarita River watershed northwest of San Diego, California.

We have now in this same year passed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which is an issue that had not been dealt with for 17 years by the Congress.

I think actually Senator Dorgan hit it on the head during the last bill when he talked about these very old conflicts and settlements that have languished for years and years and years.