I was visited by the mayor and some of the community leaders of the community of Wrangell in southeastern Alaska.

It's important for me, and I think, the public, to know that you're spending each year on the timber program--we need to know what that amount is.

But if it is that's a huge breakthrough and we want to encourage that.

But I have been less optimistic, less encouraged--and certainly now, since this decision on the Roadless has come out, I feel pretty discouraged.

That's whether it's appropriate that we be picking winners and losers.

There's a lot of anxiety along the road. But we've got a lot of island communities.

We know that it's going to be expensive to replace them, but we also know that we have to have them.

I absolutely concur. I agree with you. We need to do more.

I think having incentives of R and D based around the performance goals we want to achieve.

I have to tell you that when we first looked or when I first looked at the community deployment, I thought this is not going to work in my State.

Which is the right number to begin really moving out? Is it somewhere in between or can you speak?

There are electric garbage trucks that are silent.

This is an exciting time to be working on vehicle legislation.

last night the Senate defeated a misguided attempt to raise taxes on the five largest energy companies that are operating in our country. That bill, as we discussed, would have done nothing to reduce our gas prices, nothing to create jobs…

To add insult to injury, it appeared that some members of the Fort Lewis medical staff were exposed to a briefing that suggested members of the National Guard were gaming the system.

I am a little bit disappointed that the Army does not make broader use of this tremendous resource for training a larger number of troops to fight in our cold climates.

I ask unanimous consent that I be recognized for up to 15 minutes, and that the following list of Republican speakers be recognized for up to 10 minutes each, not necessarily in this order. But the Senators to be recognized will be McCain…

I guess I was just more than a little bit disconcerted to learn that still with a milk jug and some fertilizer and some diesel, they can continue to do the kind of damage and inflict the death and the mutilation that we continue to see.

I believe it is important that we get the issue out in the open and do all that we can to reduce our suicide rates to zero.

as our Nation begins its observance of National Police Week, I speak today in memory of three Alaska law enforcement officers who gave their lives in the line of duty in 2010. This is National Police Week, the week that we honor law…

Thank you, Mr. President. I have also come to the floor today to speak about the proposal to raise taxes on the five largest domestic energy producers. I think it is important we remember we are speaking about five energy producers, five…

In 2007, I had the opportunity to visit with Alaska Army National Guard troops who were returning from Iraq and Kuwait at Camp Shelby in Mississippi.

Completing the Refuge is anticipated to cost approximately $87 million in today's dollars, so acting now is especially important for monetary reasons.

All of this was deeply troubling to me . . . confirming my worst fears when I visited with Alaska troops at Camp Shelby.

I think we all recognize that certain events and perhaps certain nonevents should lead us to alter last summer's spill response bill significantly.