I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 164, which was introduced earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows…

We have been cheerleading for a year and a half and seeing virtually no results on the ground.

I have had a lot of conversations with people on the ground who have worked with families...

the next rollcall vote is expected on Monday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m. That vote will be in relation to a nomination. ____________________

The lesson was you do not allow kickbacks to loan originators. You do not allow undocumented loans.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:59 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 10 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING…

I ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for the second time on the next legislative day. ____________________

Senator Lamar Alexander is co-sponsor of the electric vehicle bill and been very involved on that front.

I want to praise my colleagues. Senator Snowe has been very involved and is the chief cosponsor of our bill for a National Energy Security Council.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Do not let go of it. Hold tight.

Does that fit, then, with the point that you were just making about carbon dioxide production, if you will, carbon dioxide footprint?

That is kind of a different answer than the question I was asking though, in terms of comparing it to our other generally available transportation fuels at this point.

So in that area, despite the Halliburton loophole, you feel like you have enforcement powers?

Certainly we have to be prepared in far better ways than simply saying that something would be bad.

In 1972, there was a report from the predecessor organization, the Atomic Energy Commission, that recommended the Mark I system be discontinued because of unacceptable safety risks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

We found no verified instance of hydraulic fracturing harming groundwater.

I am going to interrupt you because I only have a limited amount of time and actually you dodged the basic question which was, is our venting system different from the Japanese system?

That is what I am asking.

I express my deepest sympathies to the families in Japan, victims of the triple tragedy, the earthquake, the tsunami and certainly the nuclear disaster.

Here again you did not answer my core question which is, these plugs that are apparently in the design of at least one of those reactors that are on the bottom side, are those, do we have a similar design and that is a concern in American…

So I may have misinterpreted the pictures that were presented in your slides, but it looked like pipes coming out of the brine treatment facility into a creek and it is just dumping all of this ineffectively treated, highly contaminated…

So my understanding is that a lot of these emissions are the result of actually the fracking fluid carrying the methane to the surface.

We need to apply a stress test to our nuclear plants and understand what the weaknesses are.