You will find wide support for that on this dais and in many parts of the Senate. We have got to get a more predictable process on that, and biennial budgeting gets us there.

So how do we fix that? Because that is one of the key issues, is trying to get the managers to make sure that they are predicting what they need and then getting very specific on the criteria that for this task, this is the skill set that…

Is that part of a supervisor's or manager's yearly evaluation of how they handle it?

I would certainly agree that what is happening in Tinker Air Force Base, in both the relationship with AFGE, with management, with the cooperation with the Air Force, everyone is trying to be able to make this work.

When managers are held to account in their evaluation, is this something that is considered important for their evaluation?

The $1 million for tribes was just too high.

For a tribe to make a disaster declaration, it is $250,000 worth of damage.

As a non-reservation State, there is a tremendous amount of area that is historic tribal area.

I rise to talk about what is going on in the Senate right now and the work that is done. It is early in the morning right now. It is 8 a.m. In Senate time, we have already done a series of votes that started at 6:30 this morning to be able…

in 2010, when I ran for Congress, all the questions circled around the Affordable Care Act. Every townhall meeting, every conversation, everyone who caught me in the grocery store, everywhere I went there was a conversation about the…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for consideration of the Chao nomination be modified to occur on Tuesday, January 31. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would hope that we could also work together on all the budget gimmicks that are out there.

I rise today to support Congressman Mike Pompeo for the CIA. He isn't somebody I just met in my office to be able to talk with; he isn't just somebody I served with in the House. I know him personally. For 6 years, he served on the House…

I had mentioned to you when we visited in the office that my fear is that the cost-benefit analysis from any Administration has become a justification...

I would tell you as well Senator McCaskill and I have worked for the past couple of years on something called the 'Taxpayer's Right to Know.'

until we actually in the Federal Government sit down and have a conversation with our counterparts in State and local government, we will not tackle the problem of overregulation.

That model does not seem to exist.

Despite the importance of this sector for our economy, small business owners continually tell me they do not feel that Washington hears their voice.

It is fascinating to me, the number of times that I will talk to an agency, and they will tell me, 'This does not affect a small business because this is only a regulation that was designed for larger businesses.'

It does not have the authority to write governmentwide rules to define those terms.

Washington, D.C., is not the real world.

Giving them the chance, letting them know that it is not going to be a 'gotcha' game.

Government, get out of the way.

Is there a need to get some sort of definition and to get some sort of clarity on those?

If you add additional requirements, you are welcome to, but this is the minimum standard.