I'm not going to sign off on it. That's $200 million.

I'm concerned, because this subcommittee put a lot of money--$15 billion through this subcommittee, since fiscal year 2006--for pandemic preparedness activities.

We have to sort of think about what are the priority areas, knowing full well that we can't guarantee absolute, 100-percent protection against anything.

Despite all those improvements, a continuing vulnerability is our dependence on egg-based technology to produce influenza vaccines.

What we can do, if we properly fund these programs, and manage them, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, we can push the decimal point to the left, is how Senator Graham describes it.

It's sometimes said that, while the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee defends America, this subcommittee actually defines America.

Mr. President, I rise to express my strong support for the Robert C. Byrd Mine and Workplace Safety Act. This bill establishes vital new workplace safety measures and it deserves consideration here on the Senate floor. In 2009, there were…

I think now's time to take stock and think, on the reauthorization, do we need to do some realignment here?

Now, that's a good idea. I like that.

I think the plan is a good plan, from what I've been able to read about it and to take a look at it.

The fact that we were using 60-year-old technologies to make important vaccines like H1N1 was one of the reasons that Senator Graham and Talent and the commissioners gave that 'F'.

Future attacks remain a very real threat. Yet, we are still using the same anthrax vaccine that was developed 40 years ago.

I don't understand how this fund--the Strategic Investor Fund----would work different from BARDA.

Funding provided by this subcommittee is what pays for the Nation's medical countermeasures (MCM), including the drugs, medicines, and devices that protect Americans against bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, and other emerging infections.

Mr. President, this is what we are here to talk about once again: making it in America. On Friday, the Department of Labor made available more than $500,000 to assist 183 Iowans laid off from the ThermoFisher Scientific plant in Dubuque…

Mr. President, I will take a couple more minutes. First of all, I don't know how anybody can argue with this bill. It just says, one, we are going to end subsidies for plant closing costs. In other words, right now, a company could close a…

Mr. President, I intend to object to proceeding to H.R. 4862, a bill that amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with regard to naturalization authority. H.R. 4862 would permit Members of Congress to administer the oath of allegiance…

Mr. President, before I start to speak, it is my understanding I have 30 minutes for our side and I ask unanimous consent that Senator Dorgan be recognized immediately after my time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it…