If you are going to call it a hazardous material, I think we have got problems.

I am just struggling to understand why Appalachia. Why not Georgia? Why not Alabama? Why is it the Appalachia area is singled out for such high drug use, high painkiller use.

In the Appalachian area of this country that has such a high prevalence of misuse, why is that occurring?

I want to make sure that never happens again to another family in America.

As a father of four and a grandfather of six, I see what they are going to be facing.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleagues for bringing this forward and for their very strong support of this measure. I too rise today in support of S. 307, which will rename the Federal courthouse and the Federal building at 217…

Mr. President, today, along with my colleagues Senator Kerry of Massachusetts, Senator Harkin of Iowa, Senator Begich of Alaska, and Senator Johnson of South Dakota, I am introducing legislation to extend and improve two important programs…

Mr. President, it is quite an honor to speak while the Presiding Officer is in the Chair. I think I have not seen him there before, so I will have to give a good speech. I will probably have to give a little longer speech simply by virtue…

Mr. President, when I was Governor of West Virginia, we grappled over the budget like every State, every Governor and every legislature, every senator and every delegate. But when the deadline arrived, people came together and we did our…

Madam President, I, too, rise in congratulating the Senator from North Dakota on his maiden speech. I have known then- Governor Hoeven for quite some time. His wife and my wife have been very good friends. What you heard is basically a…

I'm concerned somewhat about the danger of over shooting the mark on maximizing E-85 infrastructure because I'm hoping that infrastructure compatible drop in fuels such as algae based biocrude and biobutanol would emerge to fill much of…

I introduced this bill, along with Senators Johnson, Klobuchar, and Franken, on the very first legislative day of this Congress to highlight its importance.

I know Senator Coons is very focused on this set of issues too and will be actively involved in the questions as we get into the hearing.

Putting in place a consistent, long-term federal policy for advanced and cellulosic biofuels is critical to continued development.

Thank you for including Senate bill S.187, the Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011, among the discussion topics for this hearing.

Senator Murkowski and I authored a piece of legislation in the last Congress to address those policy challenges through the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration.

I commend Senator Harkin's efforts to address these issues in S. 187, the Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011.

Mr. President, we are going to be voting this afternoon on a number of EPA amendments, one of which is mine, which calls for a short 2-year waiting period but does not shut down in any way the EPA, particularly on CAFE standards. So I have…