So in the one sense you could have increased revenue if you have more production to offset the lower royalty rates.

We in Louisiana have recognized that you cannot be pro-environmental unless you are pro-business and you cannot be pro-business unless you are pro-environmental because the one sustains the other.

I have a friend back home in Morgan City, Louisiana, who has a fabrication shop, and he is competing against Koreans who have lower labor costs.

I am told that under--when George W. Bush put in such a tariff, that another effect was that dockworkers around the Nation, in the Port of New Orleans, by tonnage, a major product shipped is steel.

if they are moving $110 billion a year and we are only getting $7 billion, it begs the question.

I think it behooves us to take a whole-of-government approach, both from a criminal perspective and a civil perspective.

it is estimated cartels move $110 billion a year from the United States to Mexico, but we only confiscate, best as we can tell, about $7 billion.

This seems like nirvana for someone like you. You can sort by provider. You can sort by patient and, I presume, geolocate within this dataset.

This is a mechanism to avoid for a compliance with anti-kickback regulations with government programs.

But in terms of Mr. Shah's hope that it can be used proactively, relatively few allow a proactive sharing.

It tells me--and I have actually seen an even more robust data base than this--that we are futzing around with PDMP's.

Again, folks on the left just do not seem to care about those middle-class families paying $40,000 a year.

Hopefully it will be noted that that is rhetoric; it is not based upon fact.

Well, the SALT tax provision disproportionately affects the wealthy.

Graham-Cassidy aligns incentives. It does not incentivize States to do that sort of trickery, to hose, if you will, the Federal taxpayer.

Frankly, I would like to use that money to pay for the wall. It would not be the Mexican government, it would be the Mexican cartels.

Lawyers, guns, and money--but let us address this problem.

Working in Louisiana--Louisiana-based companies like Builder Supply Company in Shreveport, Iberia Bank based in Lafayette, Gulf Coast Bank in New Orleans, as well as big box stores like Home Depot, Walmart, Best Buy, they are giving…

Now, if you do an audit, I mean, what percent of these transfers are audited?

I accept that, but I am actually more interested in--I am going to follow into trade-based money laundering.

if you are asking for $300 million in software or IT systems to combat fraud, but we are losing $20 billion, then we probably should give you more than $300 million.

$110 billion reportedly moving south, and Treasury is only getting $7 billion of it. That seems to be a big gap.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be…

I wish to speak about some issues relating to the spending bill and things that happened in Louisiana. Louisiana had two catastrophic floods in 2016 that affected not just our State but also Texas and Mississippi, with over 100,000…

the Federal Government has to be good to its word and cannot, 142 years later, say, oops, we have a mulligan.