I quote you all the time, because Chairman Wyden makes the point that the tax code is 100 years old and it looks like it.

I really worry we will look back 5 years from now and see a hollowed-out American corporate base and wonder what happened.

It is not advantageous to be an American company. It makes more sense to be a foreign entity.

to closely monitor this situation and work with the railroads to find a timely solution.

I just met with a bunch of manufacturers and they were talking about some of these agencies that have these acronyms like SEC and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and others.

It is tougher to get investment here because investors are looking around the globe, and they look at America and they say, gosh, it is going to take 4 or 5 years to get this energy project up and going.

We hope you will work with us on that, too. That is a bill that Senator McCaskill and I have that is a common sense bill that would get at this permitting issue.

I would ask for your sustained focus on that as we try to get across the finish line.

Thank you all for your service and your willingness to... ensure that people are taken care of.

I also agree with what Senator Johnson said earlier about how the Internet has really thrived without the heavy hand of government.

if we do not figure out a way to reform this incredibly important but unsustainable program, we will have a difficult time ever getting our fiscal house in order.