Roy Blunt: “A recent study showed that delays in offshore drilling could result in the loss of 125,000 jobs and billions of dollars…”

you know, it is often said here that everything has been said, but not everybody has said it yet. (Laughter.) This is actually a case where everything won't be said today and can't be said. The remarkable legislative accomplishments that…

Please continue this commitment and provide timely investments public health and research programs at the CDC and in the NIH.

I think you have completed about 75 percent of those.

I know we have a vote coming up. I have brief remarks, and I ask unanimous consent to complete them before the vote starts. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.