Camp Lemonnier is vital to our national security and is used by four different commands, and as such may deserve special consideration.

First, with recent announcement about looking more toward the Western Pacific in terms of locating some facilities.

Okay. Let us talk about what you were talking about in terms of Brady violations and what to do about this.

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Our country runs on abundant affordable energy.

Mr. President, I will address the bill that will be before us later today. The title of the bill is ``Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act.'' I think that title begs the question: What is a tax subsidy? Most Americans would define a tax…

Without lower gas prices, families, businesses will spend more and more of their income filling up with a tank of gas instead of investing into our economy.

This is a pretty awful hearing, frankly. I mean, it is of high quality and thank you for holding it...

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would…

you have mentioned one specific idea that could be used to reach out to the Iranian people, and that is the Voice of America Persian language service.

I think it would be useful for us to be able to communicate to the Iranian people what our policy is toward their nuclear program.

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this is, I suspect, another avenue of diplomacy that is related to Iran.

this is something that we should be talking about and planning for right now.

if there is one country in the world which perhaps is more concerned about a nuclear-armed Iran than Israel is it is Saudi Arabia.

Mr. President, I too come to the floor to talk about the most pressing issue facing so many millions of Louisiana and American families; that is, the price at the pump. Sometimes we seem to get ourselves in a cocoon in Washington, DC…

I said at our last hearing in December on Iran that Iran was a direct threat to United States national security, the security of our close ally Israel, and other United States interests in the region.

Mr. President, this week the majority brought a bill to the floor to talk about gas prices and energy-producing companies. That was yesterday. Today the majority brought another bill and tried to move away from that bill. We ought to be…