Approving a new project here, a brand new project, I don't think would be the right thing to do.

Putting all the eggs in a renewable basket I believe is a mistake.

Every time we make rules and regulations that are either impossible to comply with or you do have to comply and it's too expensive, the poorest customers are the customers that are most dramatically impacted by this.

Mr. O'Brien, on the rural housing rental assistance, what are you doing with that under the current budget?

When people travel, the foreign travelers stay longer than domestic travelers. They spend more, and when they leave, they almost always like us a whole lot better than they did when they came.

I think this is a big mistake for these cooperatives.

Do you see any future for this program?

This is a problem that many members of the Senate want to work with you to help solve.

I think that this important Department needs somebody who is confirmed, and in charge, and ready to take hold.

I think where you have trading partners that change the rules after things have been shipped and then wouldn't even let this be shipped back--it was there and it sat there until it lost value--is a problem.

Rural development makes a real difference in the rural communities.

I want to thank my good friend and colleague. It wouldn't have happened without his support. We took a bipartisan approach, and that is the kind of approach we are taking today in urging our colleagues to look at our bill and our leaders…

Madam President, I understand that Senator Baldwin is on her way to make her maiden speech, and I promise I will stop talking the moment she enters the Chamber. I thank my colleague from Colorado. Later today, the Senate will vote on a…

Madam President, could the Presiding Officer inform me of whether there is an order to proceed right now or whether there is some additional time for morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 4 minutes remaining for the majority in…

Madam President, of course my friend and colleague from Colorado is exactly right, and I want to thank him for his leadership on this issue and for working with me to develop a bipartisan, commonsense plan that would help to mitigate the…

This is our first task, caring for our children. It is our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That is how as a society we will be judged.

We have not engaged in preventive detention without subjecting all of our actions to the laws of war.

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