I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), who understands this issue very directly with his experience both on the Resources Committee as well as in his home State of New Mexico.

And as someone with whiter hair than you have, I understand what you're talking about. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher), who does indeed have some of these industries in his district and understands full…

Could I inquire of the gentleman from Colorado how many additional speakers he has.

I ask that all Members have 5 legislative days during which they may revise and extend their remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Utah? There was no objection.

Madam President, this is really an amazing moment, as far as I can see. Sometimes, for those watching on C-SPAN, the Senate, with its unique rulings, can seem like a pretty arcane place. The impact of unanimous consent requests is not…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Steve Kofford of my Finance Committee staff be granted privileges of the floor for the duration of the 112th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, today we begin debate on a bill called the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act. There are some positive elements to this legislation, but I remain amazed that the Democratic majority has decided to pursue this bill to…

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you're looking at him.

I spoke with a number of African-American leaders after the event and they said, you know, a lot of folks do not want to say they will not vote for President Obama but they are disappointed in his lack of policies to improve our schools…

I'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you, Chairman Leahy and also Ranking Member Grassley, for putting this hearing together.

Madam Speaker, if, indeed this will be the 31st time we will vote to repeal what is commonly called ObamaCare, that number signifies also the number of job-creating bills this House has passed and sent over to the Senate. It would be nice…

The general concept we would agree with.

In general, Senator, we agree that it would not be an appropriate remedy.

I would also like to thank Chairman Bishop for his leadership in bringing forward this critical legislation.

If we don't do this, and we lose the control of this project, then how we manage the water system for the entire Intermountain West is going to be in jeopardy.

I'm optimistic that these programs can reach their goals in the coming years, recover the species at issue, and safeguard the economic well being of our communities and jobs connected to these efforts.

We have tried to cut down administrative overhead and tried to smooth out some of those areas to at least use the money wisely in this particular area.