Madam President, I rise today in support of the bill that is before us--the FAA reauthorization legislation, which is currently on the Senate floor. I thank Senator Dorgan, the neighboring State to Minnesota, for his leadership on the…

Maybe now we need to get Sen. Klobuchar and Franken and Congressman Oberstar in a room and get some changes made.

Mr. President, I serve on the Commerce Committee with Senator Dorgan. I thank him for his leadership. During the time we waited and dithered and didn't get this done--not you but others--have other countries modernized their air traffic…

I support the Coast Guard on its mission to ensure safe vessel operations and homeland security, but these license burdens...

As you know there is finally some movement afoot to do something on childhood obesity.

As Senator Lautenberg mentioned the National Agenda that guides EPA's efforts in this area has not be updated for 10 years.

I was thinking about that when we had the latest toy issue with the cadmium in the jewelry.

Thank you very much, Senator Nelson. We really appreciate that, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

I think it will be very helpful if we could get that Task Force going.

I think that there is a broad concern about voluntary agreements that is raised by this issue because a voluntary agreement is good as long as everyone abides by it.

I always think about time is a gift.