I rise to express my strong support for the McConnell amendment. This amendment prevents EPA from continuing to reach beyond Congress's clear intent under the Clean Air Act. Congress did not authorize greenhouse gas regulation under the…

We cannot afford to let current projects go unfinished, yet we face a major obstacle of how to fund these initiatives.

I think all of us agree that the teapot museums, things like that, in the climate that we are in now, we have to be so frugal with the taxpayers' money.

Just very quickly, I notice that you, in your budget, you include $50 million, a $40 million increase on comprehensive levee safety, the levee safety initiative, which is really a big deal in the sense of, in many parts of the country.

The LEED rating system discriminates against the use of most American wood products.

I would argue that certainly wood is very environmentally friendly, it stores carbon.

I agree, Senator Boxer, that one of my companies is Wal-Mart in Arkansas and they have done a tremendous job.

you cannot buy locally in Arkansas because zero percent qualifies.

Thank you. I don't want to get gaveled on, but I think the point that you make about coordination is a good one.

I rise to speak on the floor of this Chamber for the first time as a Senator. I am honored to have this opportunity to be a voice for Arkansans who want to change the direction our country is headed so that we still have a great nation to…

I agree, and I think again the sharing of data and, as you say, we are in a Facebook age that does make that so much easier.

We are faced with the largest deficit in our nation's history.

Admiral Mullen testified a couple of months ago that our greatest threat to national security wasn't al Qaeda or Afghanistan or any of those threats, but was the debt.

I think the concern is, is that with a proposed one and a half trillion dollar deficit that over a period of 10 years, one and a half trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, that an additional $13 trillion debt after 10 years…

I rise to honor the life of one of America's bravest killed in action in Afghanistan--CPL Loren M. Buffalo--a fallen hero who served our Nation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Corporal Buffalo, 20, of Mountain Pine, AR, was by…

Advances in science and engineering are essential for America's economic growth and global competitiveness.

I wish we could turn you loose on the government agencies so the DOD and VA would have the same interoperability.

Those things are so important: exposing young people.

Is there any way that you believe that you could actually meet the 2016 contingency availability of the systems at the funding levels projected in the Fiscal Year 2012 request?

In the past year, there have been two failures of the payload faring mechanism for the vehicles launching the orbiting carbon observatory, and recently, the Glory mission.

I'm pleased to be serving as the Ranking Member of the Science and Space Subcommittee.

The funding levels requested for education programs are less than those authorized for Fiscal Year 2012. And I think Congress would like to see increased educational activity at NASA.

At the end of this process, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill, with more than 400 votes between the two chambers.

like many Arkansans, I am very concerned about the administration's proposal to cut $6,288,000 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS, National Fish Hatchery Operations, where the production of fish is for the purpose of mitigating…

I think we're going to have to use our strategic partners to help us continue with the numbers of students that we reach at higher-ed and even in the middle schools.