I thank my friend, Mr. Hastings. I've been listening to Mr. Webster. And if I were Mr. Webster, I'd be doing exactly what he's doing, which is focusing on the underlying bills: the spending bill to support our veterans, to support military…

My colleague, what I know are the facts, which is just today, as I said on the floor, the chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, for the 11th time, said to Mr. Ryan, Let's go to conference so we can work out these differences in a…

I just want to know why you're afraid to go to conference. Why is that? That's what this is about. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Georgia has again expired.

As I said, Mr. Speaker, I find it especially cynical that we would use a good bill to provide spending and support to our veterans as the vehicle to impose this scheme on the Congress which will have terrible, negative effects on other…

Mr. President, I was absent for the vote on an amendment to S. 954 on Monday, June 3, 2013. Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of amendment No. 987. Alfalfa growers face unique risk management challenges and the amendment…

I just want to follow up--no questions, but I'm one of those mothers that didn't want to get the unlimited texting, because I didn't want my daughter to unlimited text.

We feel that, if consumers have to pay for these extremely expensive devices, then they should be able to use them in the ways that they wish.

last year, Senator Klobuchar and Senator Snowe introduced the legislation that would actually put some real flexibility in utilizing unused spectrum in those rural and regional markets.

One size doesn't fit all. If we can allow the States to sit back and do their job--now, if the States aren't taking care of it, fine.

Consumers who have made investments in their devices, which are not always cheap, should be able to take their purchases with them to any network.

I see that more as a Band Aid. And Senator Lee and Senator Blumenthal and I have a bill called the Wireless Consumer Choice Act.

I am the Chair of the NextGen 911 Caucus, and we're always looking for ways to improve public safety.

The ESA guards this bank, and ensures that rather than drawing down our principle, we will accrue interest by making economic development compatible with the survival and restoration of species.

All Americans, no matter if they live in Springfield, Massachusetts or Springfield, Missouri; Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon, have a stake in conserving biodiversity.

The title of this hearing suggests that state and local governments have forever been successful stewards of species, and that federal protection of biodiversity under the Endangered Species Act has only produced protracted litigation…

Before the ESA granted federal protection to imperiled fauna and flora, state wildlife management policies had pushed species like the American alligator, gray wolf, and grizzly bear to the brink of extinction.

It just seems to me that one of the most important things is for you all to mean it. To mean it.

I take it that your opinion is similar to Ms. Parrish that the structural solution is to take this decision out of the chain of command, and you feel that will make a substantive difference in the amount of reporting and, presumably, the…