I was an earlier doubter that St. Elizabeths made sense to try to consolidate everything in one campus. I am not a doubter anymore.

I appreciate the chance to follow the Senator from Maine this morning. If I could, I wish to briefly talk about the appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce and Justice and major science agencies, including the National Science…

I will be very brief. My hope is that at the end of the day, we pass what Senator Collins and Senator Heitkamp have worked on, but I would also come back and consider some other issues where we could actually save more lives. That is my…

I am not going to object. Mr. President, I was just walking through, seeing what was going to go on later this afternoon. I heard my colleague and friend from Texas talking. He is very thoughtful and knowledgeable of the law. He is a…

Reserving the right to object---- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.

I make a unanimous consent request, if I could, to enter a couple letters from the environmental and health community expressing, believe it or not, opposition to S. 2702 and S. 2882.

Anything that takes a broad cut at the baseline standards here puts States like mine in real peril.

But this morning a number of our colleagues, Senator Inhofe, myself, other members of this committee had the privilege of witnessing the signing of a major piece of environmental legislation.

Today is a day to remember not just because they are having a sit-in over in the House of Representatives; that is not memorable enough.

The Clean Air Act is an amazing success story, and air quality has improved dramatically.

The situation that they face in Arizona reminds me of the situation that we have faced in Delaware.

My time has expired. Madam Chair, I would just say those of us whose roots are in West Virginia were raised by parents who believe in common sense.

To protect our health, we need less ozone pollution.

Sometimes, Madam Chair and colleagues, I think people think that they wake up in the morning over at EPA and they say, well, what can we tighten up today to make life miserable for the other States.

We need to think with our hearts, but also with our heads.

Find out what works. Do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that, too.

President Obama is going to sign into law, legislation, at 11:15 this morning, that the White House and I worked on for the last 4 years.

Not everybody likes the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One of the things that I like about the Affordable Care Act--among others--is that, when people actually do go to work and get off of welfare, they have health care.

I like that he is focusing on poverty.

I disagree with that statement.

Today is a monumental day.

Some of it was program integrity work, but also, I think, the idea was to make it permanent.

we have a fiscal imperative to meet that moral imperative in a fiscally responsible way.

we have a moral imperative--whatever our faith is--to the least of these in our society.

People would be better off going to work than staying on welfare.