It would be a guess. It is an educated guess, but I would imagine we have $15 to $18 worth of speculation in the price of oil.

The one key thing, we don't have any metrics on any of this.

We have totally vanquished opportunity for our kids in the future.

Eighty-five percent of them know we are not doing our job, and the fact is we make a political calculation rather than a character calculation about the future of our country.

If we want to solve it, we can solve these problems; we don't have to have a fight with the President.

I would much rather negotiate with you, Congressman Cummings, than I would the Chinese.

What is disappointing is so few Members of your body are here, which identifies what the real problem is in Congress.

What we have to do is pay attention to what our goal was originally.

We, as Members of Congress, don't know what is going on, and in our desire to please and to meet compassionately a need, we do try to act, but we act without knowledge because we haven't done the oversight.

We are short-term thinkers, not long-term, and we have created tons of problems because of that.

There is now a companion bill in the House led by Congressman Peter Roskam and Congressman Carney from Delaware.

We take a series of commonsense steps to identify and prevent fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid.

This new law aimed at making agencies and agency leadership far more accountable for the expensive mistakes that they make.

I believe a lot more work needs to be done to identify, recover and prevent improper payments.

This is a simple, bipartisan amendment, and we have voted on an identical amendment before, 63 yeas, 33 nays. My colleague, the Senator from Colorado, has been gracious enough to support this amendment. This is straightforward. We just…

I ask unanimous consent for an additional 30 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I have the greatest respect for my chairman on homeland security. I love him dearly. GAO has already told us we are not doing our job. The first study of the Federal Government showed $100 billion worth of duplication. The second study is…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. This amendment does require a two-thirds threshold. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the…

I rise to express my concerns about amendment No. 1483 to the STOCK Act. While we all oppose public corruption and recognize the need for tough laws in this area, I believe this amendment may blur the line between innocent behavior and…

I would make one other point, and I am not trying to put my chairman in the hot seat, but nobody in this Chamber can name somebody right now who is trading on inside information. I believe that is a true statement. Yet we are changing the…

as my colleagues are no doubt aware, I stand in opposition to this bill, not because I think we should have insider trading. As a physician I am trained to fix the real problem and you are treating the symptoms. Several months ago, CBS did…

this is another good government amendment. If we want to restore confidence, this is something we should do. It says before we vote on a bill, we are going to have at least 72 hours to read it. It is going to be available online with a CBO…

this amendment would provide a complete substitute for the STOCK Act. It requires Members and staff to certify that they have not used inside information for private financial profit. In other words, they are going to make an affirmative…

I ask unanimous consent that my amendment No. 1476 be modified with the change to the instruction line only. I am just doing some housekeeping on that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

I have one more question for the chairman. If, in fact, this is what we should do--and I think the body is going to agree this is what we should do--does not the Senator think this should apply to the administration as well, the executive…