Bill Nelson: “I am here for my daily speech on oil independence for this country. Before the assistant minority leader leaves the…”

“I am here for my daily speech on oil independence for this country. Before the assistant minority leader leaves the floor, as he has been such a leader in this area, and before this Senator launches into this series of conversations for the Senate about the need to have oil independence and the ways that we can be going about it, bringing to the Senate each day a new kind of technology we should be looking at--today I am going to talk about the expansion of ethanol--I invite the Senior Senator from Illinois, since he has been such a leader in this area, for any comments that the Senator would like to make in a colloquy before I continue with the series of speeches on oil independence.”