I thank the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Delaware.

Have the votes been set for a certain time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired except for the 2 minutes before the vote on the Wyden amendment. Who yields time?

Madam President, reserving the right to object, will we still have 2 minutes before each amendment then? It will be in between? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, we will.

Madam President, if Senator Wyden would like this time, I think that would be really appropriate to sum it up in the 1 minute we have. If there is an opposition person, they can speak. I think the Senator should sum it up in 1 minute. The…

Mr. President, it is really almost hard to know where to start in my opposition to this amendment, but let me say that some people call it devolution, meaning you devolve all responsibility for the highways and transits to the States. I…

Mr. President, I wish to thank Senator Corker for his remarks because I have been here a while, and I haven't heard a more honest speech in my life on the Senate floor. I haven't heard a more passionate speech, a speech in which the…

Madam President, I know my friends Senator Mikulski and Senator Shelby are doing everything they can to work the will of the Senate. I know how they both want to get something done on this appropriations bill. I simply want to say that I…

Madam President, I wish to speak to Senators for a minute and tell Members this amendment is the end of the Federal highway system. The States oppose it. My friend from Utah gave a very impassioned speech earlier in which he essentially…

I thank my friend. I wanted to ask him a question. Because I think the way the Senator responded to the Toomey amendment was exactly right on point. It was almost a deja vu as I listened to my friend from Pennsylvania, because he is not on…

Mr. President, I will be very brief. I know my colleagues want to present the Carper-Corker-Boxer amendment. I will just say that we just did the math. The Senator cuts the gas tax to such a degree that the States would get an 80-percent…

Mr. President, I would like to take my time off the general debate time; is that appropriate? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator may proceed.

I thank the Chair. I am so pleased to be on the floor because the Senate has to be heard on this issue of the highway trust fund and our whole transportation system for that matter. I do wish to praise Senators Wyden and Hatch for coming…