We have to deal with storm runoff. And the investment being made at Blue Plains is an incredible infrastructure improvement.

What was the standard for the selection of those 202? Were you able to determine that?

I think we all will agree that we cannot allow, permit, tolerate targeting by political views.

I think we need to have more information as to how these were selected.

One of our objectives was to make sure that IRS was handled in a professional, nonpartisan way and had the resources it needed.

I would be very interested as to how the IRS went about selecting all of the groups for review in addition to the ones that were selected because of the use of the words 'Tea Party,' or '9/12,' or 'Patriot,' which is absolutely wrong.

But you do not know what standard they used to make a judgment that they were involved in political activities?

today, in honor of the 20th anniversary of International Migratory Bird Day on May 11, I am introducing the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act. More than half of the bird species found in the U.S. migrate across our borders and…

I remember--and I am sure the Presiding Officer does too--an early morning in March when we completed our budget deliberations. That was a couple of months ago. I remember the outcry about the Senate not following regular order in passing…

today I am introducing the Water Resources Research Amendments Act. First authorized in 1964, the Water Resources Research Act established 54 Water Resources Research Institutes at top land grant universities in each of the 50 States and…

I rise to introduce the Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2013. I wish to thank my friend and colleague, Senator Enzi, for joining me in this effort. Our bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow employees who use health flexible…

I think you are right, getting IAEA more actively engaged with the United Nations and the Security Council puts this at a level that, if we expect Iran to comply with its international obligations, the Security Council is going to have to…

We can strengthen the sanctions, and Congress is looking at legislation today to give you additional tools.

I had a chance to meet with the Secretary General of the IAEA recently and I was very impressed that the information that they were sharing was very similar to the information that we had in the United States.

first let me thank Senator Boxer and Senator Vitter for the incredible work they have done in bringing forward the Water Resources Development Act, the WRDA legislation. This truly has been a bipartisan effort to bring forward an extremely…

But can we get China to work with us with a new Security Council resolution, that perhaps then they will, since they are part of the development of these sanctions, we get compliance?

today my colleague Senator Portman and I are introducing this legislation, which refines the language included in a previous bill, S. 3532, introduced in the 112th Congress by Senator Hutchison and myself. Our goal is to ensure the…

Our strategies are clearly to isolate the Iranian regime as long as it continues to deny compliance with international obligations.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 868

It seems to me that if we fix SGR--which I am for--and we do not substitute a proposal that deals with the underlying problem, we are going to have a hard time later substituting in the payment structure, it seems to me, politically, if we…

So you are projecting a slower growth rate in volume over the next decade than in the past decade?

It seems to me that what you are doing is dividing accountability and responsibility here with, perhaps, no one being ultimately held accountable.

I am not sure that what you are suggesting gives us an accountable system. Whom do we hold accountable?

So, if they take a certain amount of information from the outside, they are basically using that to justify their decisions?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me thank all of our witnesses.