Bill Nelson

And also in a bipartisan way that we are supporting this. Isn't that a wonderful term to suddenly throw around, ``bipartisanship,'' where we can come together, not as partisans, not as ideologs, but in the best interests of the country?

For no good reason the State now limits their options and increases their costs by mandating that they close shop on that final Sunday when people are coming from church.

Limiting early voting will only cost more money.

We want more people to vote, and we want them to be able to have that vote counted like they intended.

It is simply not right when the laws are changed in a State to make it harder to vote.

This is an excellent appointee by the President, and we urge upon the Committee for quick confirmation for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

I could not more enthusiastically support this nomination.

If I were king for a day, this is the kind of person I would nominate to the U.S. district court.

It is critical that we fill this district court position.

I ask consent to speak as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I will make comments later. I see the Senator from New Hampshire is here. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New Hampshire is recognized.

While the distinguished Senator from Michigan is on the floor, who is one of the best legal minds in the Senate, I wanted to engage him to further to take us through the delay tactics that are presently now underway. Given the fact that we…

I want others to have a chance.

But the next time around we sure want a crisp, chain of command.

I think we're all saying that we should look at the Oil Pollution Act and see if there are amendments that are needed.

What we're trying to do here is lessons learned, so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

But, you all let BP, basically, direct a lot of the response.

We had a failed decision-making apparatus. The Unified Command, to begin with, did not react as hard as people were working.

If there's a spill there, do you know what runs right by there? It's the Gulf Stream.

Now, I don't want this to happen again. And there are lot of lessons learned--that we learned from your state--that we didn't pay any attention, and it happened again.

I'll never forget, with all the problem we've had in the Gulf Claims Facility, of getting them to try to help out people.

Dr. McLendon, give us an example on that Lockheed case where there's a Lockheed scientists with one of your scientists. What are they developing?

Amen to that. And isn't that typical of the U.S., that we get something started and then others pick it up?

Thank you, Senator Pryor.

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