S. 27 represents an approach to resource development that carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders.

I am not convinced that increased military ramp-up is critical yet.

I'd also like to express my support for S. 28, the Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act.

This legislation will assist SITLA in its goal of ensuring that Utah schools have the resources needed to provide the best possible education for Utah's children.

America's current economic challenges and the debilitating gridlock in Congress, have led many in Washington to call for retrenchment.

It started with good intentions, and bear in mind, now it is a $2.2 billion expense.

What you are going to hear us focus us on is accountability.

Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Coons, I ask unanimous consent that Amitai Bin-Nun, a fellow in his office, be granted floor privileges for Thursday, April 25. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, I wish to ask the Senator from Arkansas if he would yield for a question through the Chair.

I so appreciate the gentleman yielding time, my good friend from Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I join this conversation tonight coming at it from a perspective of being the chair of the Natural Gas Caucus and cochair of the Manufacturing Caucus…

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the 98th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide based in part on…

Thank you, Chairman.

I hope under Senator Wyden and Senator Murkowski's leadership we can work together to move this legislation through committee and see it enacted into law.

I'm very glad to see the BLM's testimony on the Good Neighbor bill.

I'm so looking forward to working with you, Senator Manchin, in your new role as Chairman of this very important subcommittee.

It's hard to comprehend, Mr. Chairman, but the Good Neighbor Forestry Act, a bipartisan bill, has lingered in this Committee now for 4 and a half years.

I do look forward to working with you in this capacity.

Mr. President, I just want to make one postscript. When Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for Vice President and the chairman of the House Republican Budget Committee, wrote his 2011 budget, he included the very fund which the Senator…