I want to thank you for your service. In the three years that you have been there under the Obama Administration, we have seen dramatic improvement on the SBA as an advocate for small business.

I want to share the concern that Senator Snowe has raised on the efficiencies of our credit programs to help small business.

I just want you to know that we want to continue that moving forward and would ask that you would make that information available to my office.

Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi.

Mr. Chairman, it is good to get a chance to have this debate that is unique on the House floor, to be able to go through this. Obviously, we look forward to the day that the Senate has this same kind of dialog back and forth on what are…

Again, but there are two ways. One may be prepaid, which may or may not carry--you might have a telecom risk.

And has the work you have done, both looked into how those practices are evolving in the United States and how they have evolved in other countries?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just about 2 months ago, I went with my daughter, parked in a church parking lot, and let her take the wheel. She's 15 years old, and we're in that process of her learning how to drive. I do that because I'm her…

I appreciate this opportunity to urge your support for H.R. 1241 to establish the Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area.

I think you were suggesting that there is broad consensus to back up, in the industry, both the users and the scientific community, to support the guidance that you have issued.

Did the guidance have any implications on that use of antibiotics?

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thank you to you and to the ranking member.

I appreciate the indulgence of the Chairman here--Ms. Weldon, one other area that I want to ask for your consideration...

My legislation... simply assigns these islands the official title of the Maine Coastal Islands Wilderness Area.

Changes to the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs have imposed new challenges and costs on schools in Kansas and across the country.

While I appreciate the intent of my fellow Congressman, Mr. Labrador, his bill is a good beginning to a conversation on how to address the backlog of grazing permit renewals.

I am confident, with a few technical changes, that the bill can be strengthened to protect the heritage of New Mexico, and I am committed to do that.

The local people, the land grant areas, also are very supportive of this legislation. They do not want to see their land, their common lands, up for exploration of businesses or for these lands to be sold.