No one needs to be a second class citizen. Everyone has a right to be safe in their homes.

We certainly support Senator Hoeven's intentions in introducing this bill.

Yes, it is important that we have accountability but it also is important that this money gets spent where the Congress intended and where the American people intended it to be spent and not on compliance burdens and unnecessary overhead.

We can fix this, but it is important to step back as the commission proposed by Senators Heitkamp and Murkowski offer to do.

I agree with him that we have caseloads that are overwhelming to the caseworkers that we do have.

This commission talks about the barriers, the obstacles, trying to evaluate explicitly what the elements are that we can put together that finally address the heart of this matter.

I am out of time but I want to make the point that no one should be so discouraged that we are looking at safety in foster homes.

I want to express my great affection and appreciation for the work that Senator Dorgan has done.

We know there are children at risk in this Country, Native American children especially.

We thank you for your bipartisan leadership with Senator Murkowski to try to move this forward and get some bright minds looking at this to find solutions.

today I am introducing the Advanced Clean Coal Technology for Our Nation (ACCTION) Act. This bill seeks to remedy one of the main impediments to the development of advanced clean coal technologies, in particular carbon capture and…

$2 million increase in light of the percentage increase that we are seeing of these materials moving on the rails seems like it does not quite meet the challenges.