So the HUD programs are the best fit to kind of dovetail and put together the best possible package.

Your ongoing help and support is going to be incredibly important.

Okay, who is the best person on your staff that I can have somebody on my staff work with to put together the best possible practice, bringing in HUD and whatever resource mix maximizes the recovery assistance?

I thank Senator Johanns. It is an honor to be here with him, and also with the good Senator from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander. It is great to be here with them as well as Senator Risch from Idaho. We have a common shared experience as…

I rise, along with my fellow colleagues, to again address the need to reduce our deficit and our debt. The United States is the strongest country in the world--in the history of the world--but that will not be the case for long if we do…

I thank my esteemed colleague, the senior Senator from Utah, for taking the lead on this balanced budget amendment. I am pleased to join him, pleased to be one of the original cosponsors, and I am extremely pleased every member of the…

I ask unanimous consent the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. North Dakota Flooding

I rise today to call attention to my home State of North Dakota where we have terrible flooding occurring. We have flooding today on the Souris River and the community of Minot is now in the process of evacuating more than 11,000 people…

Over 100 years ago, President Roosevelt launched a Navy mission known as the Great White Fleet on a voyage around the world. President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States was a global maritime Nation open…

I rise this morning to talk about America's energy future. The reality is we need a diversified energy future. What I mean by that is we need to develop all of our energy resources. In my home State of North Dakota, we are doing just that…

I am pleased to be here with Senator Snowe and to rise in support of her legislation, the Freedom Act of 2011. I will be brief in my comments. I know she has comments to make. I also appreciate Senator Boxer's comments in regard to…

I would like to begin by inviting you to come out to our State and see some of the impacts of that flooding.

I want to pick up on a couple of the themes, though, that I did at least hear part of the discussion on, one of which is flooding.

We need to get those trade agreements ratified, and your help there is greatly appreciated.

I appreciate the work on the biofuels. I think we are working to make that transition. Again, I am optimistic.

I rise to speak on behalf of S. 953. Today I wish again to speak about gas prices in our country and the pressing need to increase domestic supply. In a nutshell, the way you reduce prices at the pump for American consumers is by…

Putting shallow water in the effective moratorium has cost jobs. It has cost the economy, and it has cost the production that would allow these prices in gasoline to be lower.

I think that is what we are trying to get at. So that it is fair process that certainly protects the environment, but that empowers private investment and empowers more energy production for this country.

I am going to ask the Secretary the same question, but I just wanted to give both of you a chance. Why is it taking so long?

I rise to speak this afternoon about the escalating cost of gasoline at the pump--something that affects every American consumer. Crude oil prices are now more than $100 a barrel and the price of gasoline at the pump for our consumers is…

Absolutely. So Mr. Klara, Ms. Greenberg in the lab and in your brainstorming sessions, what are we going to do with this CO2 that's going to generate some revenue for us?

I agree on the 2-year--matter of fact, I'm cosponsoring legislation to go to a 2-year budget cycle.

Look, if we have to compress some budgets, you're going to have to do without some services.

It seems to me that the 2 big issues in getting the technology to move forward for carbon capture and sequestration are cost and liability.

Mr. Chairman, with your indulgence? Exactly. Again, that goes to the cost equation. You have to have a pipeline to get it to the oil field typically or to the wells in the field.