John Hoeven

I appreciate that, and I appreciate working with you on it.

Both Senator Manchin and Senator Capito pressed you on this issue.

So if you could get a P3 or maybe even a P4 candidate that, in fact, reduces the Federal share in half, and increases the benefit-cost ratio by more than double, that would make it an attractive candidate for selection by the Corps to…

We need to. We have been requested to by the tribal chairman.

I'm wondering what can you tell me in terms of getting to a new start, so we can do a study and evaluate a permanent project for Minot.

Thank you all for being here today and for the important work that you do.

But you would agree that the tribe has water rights?

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:01 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, January 29, 2015, at 9:30…

Tomorrow there will be two stacks of votes on the Keystone bill. Senators should expect up to seven votes shortly after 11 a.m., and then an additional four or five votes at 2:30 p.m. ____________________

That is fine. I will use 10 minutes at this point, and I will use more later.

I certainly would welcome that opportunity and look forward to joining the Senator from Illinois in that dialogue.

I would like to make a couple of points. One is that in regard to this amendment, to my knowledge, they are talking about situations where a project is publicly funded, funded with taxpayer dollars. In this case, I would point out by way…

My inquiry would be: How much time does the Senator from Massachusetts need? I would be willing to defer my time until later, as long as I know I would have approximately 10 minutes before the hard break of 12:30 p.m.

I ask the Senator to yield for the purpose of a question. I want to understand the time. I need about 3, 4 minutes to wrap up. I did relinquish 15 minutes for the other side, so I would request 3 to 4 minutes to wrap up and then I would…

I note the presence of the chairman of the Energy Committee. I defer to her for some time if she wishes to speak before the vote. That would be my question, whether we could get maybe a couple of minutes for that purpose. I can certainly…

I want to thank my colleague from North Dakota for speaking on the important points she made, and that is that the energy we are producing in this country is helping consumers at the pump by bringing down prices. I want to turn to my…

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his comments today and for his continued hard work in support of the issue. I look forward to working with him again to get this done for the American people. I turn to our leader on the energy…

Thanks for your leadership of this Committee and for your hard work and, of course, all your work on the farm bill.

To get a farm bill, we needed the North, we needed the South, and we needed the big 'I' States.

I would like you to come out to my State and meet with my farmers.

We need a holistic solution that addresses it not only for the urban areas--Fargo and Moorhead--but also for the rural areas and addresses it for the small towns and for our farmers as well.

It is my strong belief it needs to be rescinded. Our farmers and ranchers are looking at 56 different practices they are supposed to try to understand, track, and follow. I mean, this thing is just absolutely unworkable.

Would the Senator from Louisiana like to do that now? Then she would still have 2 minutes to use after I finish as well. I am trying to find out how the Senator would like to use her remaining time.

I would inquire of the Senator from Louisiana if she would like to use her 3 minutes in addition to the agreement for the final 8? Would the Senator from Louisiana like to use her 3 minutes at this time?

I would respond to the question of the Senator from Louisiana. My understanding is we were targeting to maybe have the vote at 5:30. I would be certainly pleased to work through that with the Senator and Senator Boxer, finishing up, maybe…