I was out in Soldotna this weekend looking at the aftermath of the Funny River Fire.

It doesn't work. Yes.

I'm not certain that you actually have these numbers, but getting these numbers is going to be important to this debate.

I would request that floor privileges for the balance of the month be afforded to my interns: Annika Graham, Nathan Sidell, Amber Vernon, Rebecca Carney-Braveman, Samuel Ortiz, Evyn Ysais, Marcus Gamble, Diane Murph, Izabella Powers, Sarah…

This is a humanitarian crisis.

I come to the floor this morning to speak on the Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014. I have been working on this bill with my colleague from North Carolina, Senator Hagan. We have been working on this bill together for about 1 year. Our…

I wish to speak very briefly this afternoon to acknowledge a hero. I come to the floor just after the announcement has been made about a leader in the Senate, Senator Baker. While I did not have the privilege of serving at the same time as…

I think that's truly the goal here. The design of this legislation is to figure out how we can be more effective, be more efficient with the collaboration and the program management.

The energy/water nexus is a very important issue, certainly to me, I think to folks everywhere.

In closing I'd like to thank Senator Murkowski and her staff, especially Ron Falbish, for devoting so much attention to an issue that is not only critical to the power sector, but for the well being of the Nation.

I worry about whether or not what we're doing is sufficient and that was the impetus for this NEWS Act, to try to get all of the relevant stakeholders working together.

I appreciate that my friend and colleague from Wyoming is helping to lead this discussion about the Keystone XL Pipeline and really to encourage the Senate to move on it, to do something on this rather than just talk about it. We are…

We don't do near enough of it in this Senate, I think, when we think about the oversight issues.

windows of opportunity do not stay open indefinitely.

So it would be good to get updates as you go along so we can just kind of make sure we're all going in the same direction?

Our rising production gives us the opportunity to satisfy our own needs here at home and to help our friends and allies around the world.

But yet, it's not just us that has this. It has been mentioned that there are other Nations, clearly, that have the ability to jump into this market.

I happen to believe that that is the case.

I do think it is important that we understand and come to an agreement about what we're really talking about here.

There's a lot of skepticism out there.

I am expecting, I'm certainly hoping that by the end of this year we will see more projects than that will receive final approval from DOE after completing the review at FERC.

These were, in fact, the same allegations that my office forwarded to the Department of Defense Inspector General on June 19 of last year.

I request that the following interns from my office be given privileges of the floor for the balance of the day: Emily Hartley, Alfonso Sitenga, Rachel Tougas, Michaela Spaulding, Deirdre Creed, Maria Villa, Lyndsey Brollini, Nicole…

this has been an interesting week here in the Senate. When we began this week, there was a great deal of attention focused on what was happening overseas with the release of a prisoner of war who had been in captivity for some 4 to 5…

I thank the Presiding Officer, and I thank my friend from Ohio. First, I would like to bring up the issue of the Alaska State student aid agency. The Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education--or as we call it ACPE--is funded by the…