I thank the distinguished President pro tempore. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi. ____________________

I wish to spend a few moments speaking about national defense. As we all know, last week, in a much anticipated address to the Nation, President Obama outlined a plan to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. I want my colleagues to…

What about these folks sitting to your right? Why can't your companies do a better job for their customers?

We need to have it in Marks.

And I would hope that the Chair and the Ranking Member would come and visit us in the Mississippi Delta and see all that we have to offer.

We all have to work together.

Is this a great country or what?

Well, that's very welcome news.

Thank you for your letter of July 25 regarding your ongoing interest in establishing a stop for the City of New Orleans service at Marks.

And we have not seen that with Ex-Im Bank. Is that correct?

If we didn't have ECAs all over the world, you are saying that modern day, 21st century governments would invent such things to promote international trade.

Well, the single word is 'jobs.' Madam Chairwoman made the great point about how important it is to quantify the jobs at stake.

the elimination of the Ex-Im Bank would amount to unilateral disarmament on the part of the United States and U.S. manufacturers.

Now let me just ask you, we have GE Aviation in Mississippi. We are very pleased to have them in Batesville and Ellisville.

I would say it is good policy tool. It is a good policy tool.

Thank you for your indulgence, Mr. Chairman. I am delighted to claim Dr. Trudy Fisher as a friend.

We must work together to restore our ecosystems and protect our economy.

As Senator Vitter points out, is the climate changing? Yes, it is changing. It has always changed throughout tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years.

I want to subscribe to much of what you, Mr. Chairman, have said, as well as Senator Boxer, Senator Rubio, and Senator Landrieu.

The Clean Air Act Section 111(d) affirmatively prohibits EPA from regulating any air pollutant emitted in an existing source category which is regulated under the national emission regime of Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.

The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

What good is flexibility if there is no chance of flexibility?

The President seems determined to wage an all-out war on coal, launching costly regulations that would have little effect on changing the climate.

This is a fact worth repeating. There has been no rise in global average temperatures over the past 17 years.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will cause in the foreseeable future catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the…