Joseph T. Burns: “I yield 5 minutes, and more if needed, to the Senator from Texas, who has been a real champion for veterans benefits.…”

I don't know of anything more frustrating to all of us who come from farm and ranch country than to try to get this taken care of. We tried to take care of it last year and didn't get it done. There was no urgency. We had a fairly good…

in 2002 Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, providing important safeguards against unscrupulous accounting practices. In the wake of significant corporate accounting scandals, Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight…

I assume this is my amendment. Everybody is looking toward me, so I will make that assumption. The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is the Burns amendment.

I will assume I was next in the queue. I thank the chairman of the Subcommittee on Agriculture for bringing this conference report up. You know, I just want to point out to the American people that even though the total of this bill is…