We have to co-exist with all of those, don't we?

As Senator Cantwell said, we're seeing the same technologies we had in the Exxon Valdez, but there have been improvements on the margins.

I'm going to try to remember this entire saga the next time I'm asked to vote for a huge Federal expansion or a huge Federal solution to problems that might exist out there in the United States of America.

I have to agree with my colleague, Senator Snowe, about the bureaucratic cumbersomeness of the response.

Is there more capacity at Pascagoula for more sensory testing, if we could get the work to them?

Please do that, and is there any reason why we couldn't do chemical testing there at the Pascagoula facility also?

I am very pleased to join my senior Senator, Senator Cochran, in wholeheartedly endorsing the nomination of Carlton Reeves for the position of U.S. district court judge.

This is a very important topic, which deserves and requires continuing research and investigation if we are to keep up with the ever-changing Internet.

The results could be catastrophic, as they were earlier because we walked away.

I think, Ambassador Holbrooke, you have answered a lot of questions today.

We are in Afghanistan because of 9/11.

As news of the drilling operation's safeguards omitted in the lead up to this tragic explosion come to light, I grow more and more troubled at the negligence exhibited by the responsible parties in the operation of Deepwater Horizon.

If we can accept a process where 100 percent of the oil is taken out of the water and only... the water that is put back in only contains 1 or 2 percent, then, to me, you have a 98 percent or 99 percent success rate.

It seems astonishing to most people, but environmental statutes sometimes are preventing us from cleaning up the water.

I think everyone here would agree that you're entitled to equal treatment under the law.

I appreciate Mrs. Roshto and Mrs. Anderson being here today. It is under very unfortunate circumstances.

I rise today to speak briefly on the upcoming hearings the Judiciary Committee will hold on President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to be a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. I am not a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and I…

Indeed, the second show trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky has entered its second year. We have celebrated the anniversary of the second trial. Show Trial: Should Ties to Russia Be Linked to Its Record on Rights? Russia's government has calculated…

I will go on to point out that things started coming to a head when Mr. Khodorkovsky started speaking out against the Russian Government, led by President Putin, and his company that he headed, Yukos, came into the sights of the Russian…

What do you say to the charge that the U.N. sanctions have been so watered down and so weakened that they're relatively meaningless?

The editorial points out that Russia's Government is trying to think of ways to attract more foreign investment, and it juxtaposes this desire for more Western openness and investment with the Khodorkovsky matter and says that this trial…

I appreciate his joining me today to discuss an issue of great concern to both of us and to human rights advocates around the world. That is the ongoing trial in Russia of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev. In…

What do you say to that? I know Senator McCain was pressing on this yesterday.

I am concerned we are distorting the economy in Afghanistan by paying interpreters so much money.

Yesterday, I believe, the committee made a very grave mistake with regard to the provision involving the repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy. This has been the policy since the days of the Clinton administration. It has worked…