Mr. President, I also wish to share some observations of a recent visit I made to another troubled part of the world. In Colombia, I witnessed a country transformed. I went there with our four-star commander, General Fraser of the U.S…

Mr. President, in a few hours we are going to be voting on whether we want to take up the Defense bill. That should be a no-brainer, for, after all, defense of the country is one of the most important things the U.S. Government can do. We…

I think what Senator Nelson said about us needing bipartisanship at this time, because this debt crisis that we have...

Can you imagine President Obama and Senator McConnell and Leader Boehner coming forward after this election and embracing a report of the deficit Commission that would be passed, has to be passed by 14 of the 18 members?

I would just say in conclusion that one of the things I learned when I sat at the knee of Tip O'Neill was that he and President Reagan would fight like the dickens, but they would walk out the door at the end of the day as personal friends.

Mr. President, we are down now to passing what we have tried to pass so many times, this small business assistance bill, which is going to create a $30 billion lending facility that will work through community banks. The small business…

If it is OK with the chairman of the committee, we have a unanimous consent that has been agreed to on both sides. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendments, No. 4595 and No. 4596, be modified with the changes at…

Oh, goodness. I will conclude by saying if his amendment does not pass, then you have a viable alternative with the Nelson amendment. I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nebraska.

Along with Senator Chuck Schumer, I have introduced legislation, S. 3264, to address the abuses.

Do your projections square with the projections of the Federal Reserve?

I do not think that a lot of people in America realize that tax dollars, their tax dollars, are actually being used to pay oil companies to drill in deepwater.