If an objection is heard--I retain my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

That is correct. Mr. President, I have a unanimous consent, and I want to preface this unanimous consent. There are 150 amendments, I think the chairman said, or thereabouts. A lot of those aren't going to require votes; some are. I ask…

I would be willing to yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

Failing that, what I would propose, based on what I have heard out here this afternoon, is that the chairman put it together and let's try it and let's ask unanimous consent. The fact is the chairman and ranking member of this committee…

I yield to the chairman of the committee. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

I would be happy to yield a limited time for the Senator to ask for unanimous consent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senator from Louisiana is recognized.

I would respond to the Senator from Louisiana, I have no ill will toward her objection. I stated it plainly before. I believe the Senate ought to have any and all amendments prior to cloture. I think Senators have the right to offer…

I will yield for a question, but I will not yield the floor. I will be happy to yield for a question.

I thank the chairman of the committee. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and amendment No. 1005 be called up. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

Well, Mr. President, I thank the chairman of the committee. I will double-check that with my staff. This excludes something that was in the bill, so I will have to look at what the old bill said to be able to concur with that. If that is…

Since objection is heard, it was my understanding the Senator from Michigan had an agreed-upon list that was sent to both cloakrooms.

I am going to talk about this amendment. This is an amendment that prohibits--let me set the stage for it. We are going to have somewhere between a $500 billion and $700 billion deficit. We have $17.5 trillion worth of debt today. What…

I somewhat associate myself with the remarks of the Senator from Louisiana. We have unwound because we don't want to have real debates and real votes. We just fixed the flood insurance program. We didn't fix it well enough, and if Senator…

3\1/2\ years ago, with the debt limit increase, my colleagues and I overwhelmingly voted to ask the GAO to study duplicative programs in the Federal Government. This last April they gave the third in what will be a continuing rollout of…

I think I am starting to hear the Senate starting to work the way it should, and so I am going to offer a unanimous consent request that the list she presently has, with the ranking member, the Senator from Mississippi, of a large number…

I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and Coburn amendment No. 1003 be called up. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

even though the amendment has been objected to, I am going to talk about it. The amendment is to require the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to ensure that the grants and loans it makes to provide access to…

since I have an objection to that amendment 1007, I ask unanimous consent that amendment No. 1008 be called up. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

fair and balanced consideration to our colleagues is allowing them to have amendments, and the Senator just objected to that. So that is where we are. That doesn't keep her from managing the bill. The Senator still gets to set the…

this amendment is very controversial, I know, amongst my colleagues. But I have practiced medicine for 25 years, and before that I ran a pretty successful business. The Department of Health and Human Services delayed the implementation of…

this amendment ends conservation payments to millionaires--people who make a million bucks a year. We have a rule at the USDA that says people making $1 million a year are not supposed to get these payments. But guess what the USDA does…

Let me just make the point. The large farmers I know in Oklahoma really don't want the government telling them what kind of agreement they are going to have with their crop insurance and environmental things. We already have a ton of…

The No. 1 person who cares about the environmental quality of their land is the farmer. The bigger the farmer, the more they care. The No. 4 farmer, as far as crop insurance in the country, farms 105,000 acres. The average farmer in…

I ask for the yeas and nays on our amendment and yield back our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered. Amendment No. 1031

how much time remains? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Senators Durbin and Coburn have 5 minutes remaining, Senator Hagan has 1 minute remaining, and Senator Stabenow has 1 minute remaining.