I am glad that the President has made infrastructure a national priority.

If we do not make the necessary investments to prevent and defend against and minimize the impact of these cyberattacks, our enemies may succeed in causing a widespread blackout or devastation to our economy that is so important to…

I certainly hope that package will include provisions that streamline the permitting process for all energy projects.

Chairwoman Murkowski and I put together a bipartisan energy bill last year that made needed investments in our energy infrastructure and our workforce and doubled the amount of funding to protect us against cyberattacks and improved the…

It's not the pipelines that are dirty, it's the politics.

I look forward to working with him and his Administration, as well as members of the Senate, to develop a broad infrastructure package.

I think it is a great day to be at work.

Chairman Murkowski, for decades your state has demonstrated that natural resource development can co-exist with nature, building family sustaining careers while maintaining a natural beauty of wild places.

Senator Murkowski's office and her staff got everybody back onto the field, playing as a team.

I strongly urge you, Secretary Zinke, to continue the conference.

It means meaningful consultation and true relationships in decisionmaking.

This list includes our Nation's energy and mineral producers, the people who keep our lights on, who provide fuel for our vehicles, and who construct everything from semiconductors to skyscrapers. The American Petroleum Institute, the…

This commonsense legislation will lay the groundwork for tribes to address sexual violence in their communities in a meaningful way.

What does it mean for the Federal Government to uphold its trust responsibility to tribes and have a true government-to-government relationship?

This relationship is far too important to not understand and I have been saying that we need to make sure all nominees and incoming staff with the new administration must understand it.

we are coming to the end of debate on the disapproval resolution for the BLM Planning 2.0 Rule. I would like to take just a few minutes to highlight the very broad support it has drawn here on Capitol Hill but really across the country…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be discharged from further consideration of S. 416 and the bill be referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that at 3:45 p.m. today, there be 15 minutes of debate remaining on H.J. Res. 44, equally divided in the usual form. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Discharge and Referral--S. 416

I am pleased the Senate is at the point we are this morning. Last night, we agreed to proceed to consideration of H.J. Res. 44, which will overturn the Bureau of Land Management's Planning 2.0 Rule. The House has considered this already…

I think that speaks a lot on your commitment to Indian Country and it goes to show that what you said about focusing on the challenges in Indian Country during your nomination process was not just rhetoric, but you meant it.

as we near the vote on the nomination of Governor Rick Perry to be our next Secretary of Energy, I want to again reiterate my support for his confirmation. As I mentioned earlier, Governor Perry has devoted his life to public service…

I reserve the right to object. I want to make sure we do have locked in at 1:45 a vote on confirmation of Rick Perry to be Secretary of Energy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. We do.

the matter pending before the Senate this morning is the nomination of Rick Perry to be Secretary of Energy, and I have come to the floor to speak to that nomination. As with Representative Zinke, whom we confirmed to be Secretary of the…

As long as I still have about a minute prior to that vote, I have no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

we have the nomination of Representative Ryan Zinke to be the Secretary of the Interior as the business before the body today, and I wish to spend a few moments this afternoon speaking about him, his qualifications, and why I believe he…