We agreed that we need to build on these successes, even as we recognize that there are going to be areas of disagreement.

The bonds that were already so strong between our two countries have become stronger.

On Friday @VPBiden said that China has better cities and airports than the US. Well what has @BarackObama done about it the last 3 years?!

I don't mind that @BarackObama plays a lot of golf. I just wish he used it productively to make deals with Congress!

I do think that the most direct, aside from the big picture of us not dealing with the fiscal issues and just the concerns that that creates...

I would say I would. I will tell you though that many of my friends who have now, later in life, attempted to go out in business are finding it much more difficult.

the best thing we could do as elected officials is to lift that wet blanket from the economy

Dodd-Frank was put in place, as you well know, and the speed that it was put in place, to create certainty.

We want to see investment in our country. We know in Tennessee we have the best workforce you could possibly imagine.

I agree with Representative Black, perhaps the worst offender of this avalanche of regulations is the Environmental Protection Agency.

I could do a lot more if we had more Republican Senators, just to be very blunt about it.

During the last three years, the Obama administration has produced an avalanche of regulations that have thrown a big wet blanket over the American economy.

The healthcare law is taxes and mandates... the cost of complying with the healthcare law would more than equal the entire profit his company would make in that year.

I think if we took the consumer protections that were really important for a car or a mortgage and put them on one page, that we would protect the consumers a lot better.

Legislation from Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, and Representative Ed Whitfield, Republican of Kentucky, would ban race-day medications, and ban trainers who are repeat violators from the sport altogether.

I thank the Senator. I will take 1 more minute to finish. Finally, I would like to note that this resolution is a bailout of companies that would rather spend money on lobbying than on pollution controls. The EPA standard does not harm…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 5 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from New Mexico is recognized. Utility MACT

Mr. President, I also, as my colleague Senator Whitehouse did, wish to thank the chairman, Barbara Boxer, for her hard work and her leadership to protect our air and our public health on this crucial vote that is going to come up later…