I hope and I appreciate the leadership that you are providing to say to those countries in the Balkans that if they can achieve the alliance's criteria, they will be welcomed as members of NATO.

I was concerned, in talking to folks--the staff at the White Mountain National Forest--to learn that their actual funding for last year was down 15 percent.

I would hope that we're not going to have a policy in Washington that comes in and supersedes what has been carefully put together by the local folks in New Hampshire.

I think it's very important that we integrate women's issues, this commitment to empowering women, more fully into all of our foreign policy.

Madam President, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today to pay tribute to the life and service of Army SPC Marc P. Decoteau of Waterville Valley, NH. Tragically, this young soldier, just 19 years old, died while serving as part of…

I had the opportunity to visit Kosovo in February of 2010 on their Independence Day.

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 President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

Mr. President, I came to speak because there are Senators--anonymous Senators--who are blocking the confirmation of Susan Carbon, who has been nominated to be the new Director of the Office of Violence Against Women. Susan is from my home…

Thank you, and we appreciate that we are now over the hump in terms of getting the ARRA money out.

The settlement negotiated between the FTC and Fairbanks Capital Corp. was appropriate given the under-capitalization condition of Fairbanks Capital at the time.

I think we are all very excited that you are at the Department of Energy. It is really encouraging to see some of the steps that are being taken.

We think is important so that we make use of biomass for both.

I share my colleagues' gratification at the outpouring from not only the United States, but from the rest of the world, to try and respond to this tragedy.

What more can we do to help businesses like Warner Power and some of the other small- and medium-sized businesses to commercialize those technologies that they're working on?

Finally, one of the things that is a big issue in New Hampshire, because we have a higher-than-usual percentage of individual dwellings, both homes and commercial buildings--and so, our energy costs are very high.

I think this other issue may have been raised by others, as well, but we have a number of small- to medium-sized businesses in New Hampshire that are doing very innovative things when it comes to new energy technologies.

I want to begin by echoing what you heard from Senators Kerry and Lugar, our thanks for your being here today.

I believe FERC is taking it up and plans to resolve it.