On the recordMay 25, 2010
as we look around the world, we have lots of issues that are extremely difficult ones. We have the Korean Peninsula situation that has drawn so much attention and rightfully so. We now have our Secretary of State in China working on this and other issues, and the Secretary of the Treasury is there. We have a situation where it appears a South Korean Navy ship was sunk for no reason; that dealt with the security of North Korea. We have the oil spewing into the gulf--thousands and thousands of barrels every day. We have two wars we are watching closely, of course, in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have the situation in Europe, where governments are staggering because of financial problems. We have our own economy, which is doing better but certainly far from being where we want it to be. Then, on the floor this week we have two extremely important issues to deal with. One is the supplemental appropriations bill that we have combined with one given to us by the White House. We have the war spending, and then we have all the emergencies that came up during this year. Every year, this is something we always do. We have to figure out a way to get through these in the next couple days. The House is going to act either tonight or tomorrow on an extenders bill--doing a lot of good things that our country and our economy needs very badly.
