Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 5 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Oil Subsidies

Mr. President, just a few minutes ago, I was presiding over the Senate and I heard remarks from my friend, the senior Senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, who sits next to me. I was intrigued by her response to the vote that had just…

I thank the assistant majority leader. I heard his comments about Chrysler and what happened with the CEO when he was in town today talking to some of our colleagues. And one of the untold stories of the auto rescue is not just that in my…

I have been to the plant where they make the engine for the Chevy Cruze, I have been to the plant where they make the bumper for some of these cars, and I have been to the assembly plants, and the workers are excited. And the workers…

Mr. President, if my colleague would yield one more time, it wouldn't have just been Chrysler and General Motors that would have faltered. Honda--a foreign-owned company that has made a huge and positive presence in the Columbus area, in…

Mr. President. I rise today to honor Raymond J. Price III upon his retirement from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, IUPAT. For more than 30 years, Ray Price has represented his fellow workers in Ohio and across the…

Mr. President, March 2012 marks the 29th annual National Eye Donor Month--a month devoted to honoring eye donors and corneal recipients, and increasing awareness of the need for eye donations. Since President Ronald Reagan declared the…

Mr. President, I rise to talk about a new record that has been set. It has nothing to do with the number of votes the highway bill garnered last week in the Senate, and it has nothing to do with length of service of Senator Mikulski. For…

Mr. President, some time ago, I was reading a book about the beginnings of the interstate highway system in our country. I came across a paragraph when the highway builders and the Federal Government were going to run the interstate…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, are we in morning business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is not in morning business.

Madam President, our amendment requires DOT to report annually on waivers, including analysis of taxpayer dollars that are spent on foreign materials and infrastructure. It closes a loophole that currently exists that allows the project to…