I thank the Chair. Let me make two comments on two amendments actually to the THUD appropriations bill having to do with CNG, natural gas vehicles. If I could speak very briefly on two amendments, the first is amendment No. 3245. That…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak until the arrival of the Senator from Alabama, Mr. Sessions. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the subject today, of course, is the failed foreign policy of this President and this administration. It is really hard to do it in a limited period of time because once something happens like Benghazi, and we get into the middle of that…

We need to hear from the experts on electricity reliability.

We have to ask ourselves are we doing something to this economy that is not good for us and how can we make positive gains together without damaging our economy.

the reason guys like Tom Steyer have to go to such lengths to make the political issue is because the American people don't want anything to do with it.

Even if the President was able to reach an agreement like the Kyoto treaty of the 1990's, it would still have to be ratified by the Senate. The treaty in the 1990's overwhelmingly failed in the Senate.

Growth in the first quarter of this year was negative 1 percent.

Is it worth subjecting many in our Country to a dramatically lower quality of life and health for this plan to essentially nationalize our electricity grid? Based on the facts, I would say absolutely not.

I think that we need to look at this with each and every increase in energy cost.

The President once said that his climate policies would make the cost of electricity necessarily skyrocket and I believe him.

I do ask this be made a part of the record.