One quick note about and I think it's actually worth me making this comment because the slide was actually put up by Senator Wyden.

I think policymakers ought to be doing what Chairman Bingaman and Senator Murkowski are doing here today which is try to get the facts.

Exports in the United States are going to make natural gas like the oil market. That's why I'm concerned about what these price hikes could mean for our businesses and our consumers.

I want to get into a little different area, gentlemen. I come to this debate really with 2, sort of, fundamental principles.

my sense is that if you tune in on the Senate today--and, of course, the ways of the Senate are always hard to follow. The occupant of the chair is involved in changing the rules of the Senate and has a sense of what I am talking about…

before the Senator leaves the floor, I commend the Senator from Massachusetts. He has said much this afternoon that I certainly agree with. I also want to touch on one other point about the Senator's work--the Senator from…

I am pleased today to be joined by Senators Ayotte, Begich, Heller, Merkley, and Shaheen to submit a simple but important bipartisan resolution. Our resolution simply expresses a sense of the Senate that the government should not sack…

I rise today to advocate for increasing Medicare efficiency and effectiveness by introducing the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers, SMART, Act of 2011 with my colleagues, Senators Portman, Ben Nelson, and Burr. The SMART Act…

international trade has always been controversial. That has been true since the days of the Smoot-Hawley effort--Hawley, by the way, was an Oregon Congressman--and it continues to be true today. It is important to our country and important…

before he leaves the floor, I just wanted to commend Senator Bennet for the outstanding work he is doing on the budget issue, and particularly cite the fact of the cooperation of the Senator from Colorado and the Senator from Nebraska, Mr…

I rise today to introduce a Congressional Joint Resolution to prevent the sale of $53 million worth of arms to the Government of Bahrain. As I witness the series of extraordinary events that are sweeping across the Arab world, I am…

What I would like to suggest is that, on a bipartisan basis, we look at the idea of reforming the unemployment system to give those who are qualified to do so the opportunity to get off the treadmill.

I particularly appreciate the way you, Mr. Chairman, and others are looking at trying to find a bipartisan way to make some changes in the unemployment system to provide more opportunities for our workers, folks that are hurting, to get…

We know today that a lot of lost jobs aren't coming back, and we have to start with that basic understanding.

I was struck by Senator Murkowski's, you know, point with respect to information sharing...

My sense is that the Federal Government, because the Federal Government owns oil shale lands and gas shale lands, would be a very good place to try to bring together all of the stakeholders.

I rise today in support of the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act, which this Chamber adopted late last night by unanimous consent. The bill demonstrates that improving the lives of vulnerable children remains a…

I rise in opposition to this amendment. Our exporters face major challenges in global markets. We are faced with surging imports from China. China has a regime in place that is cheating American innovators and forcing them to share their…

the point of classifying documents is to protect national security. And often it seems that documents are classified to protect somebody's political security.

I rise in opposition to the Hatch amendment. In a time of surging Chinese imports, high unemployment, and widespread economic pain, the Hatch amendment would make it harder for workers, companies, and farmers to obtain trade adjustment…

my hope is that we are moving into the homestretch, in terms of being able to pass the trade adjustment assistance legislation. I strongly support efforts to promote more exports. The President has set a laudable goal of increasing…

before he leaves, I simply want to say to the distinguished Senator from South Dakota, who is the ranking Republican on our subcommittee, that I very much enjoy working with him. I have listened carefully to his remarks, and it seems to me…

I ask unanimous consent that Joseph Scovitch and Danielle Dellerson, Finance Committee staff, be granted the privilege of the floor during consideration of the Generalized System of Preferences Act. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

It often seems that just plain old bureaucratic inertia gets in the way of declassifying documents that the public really has a right to know.

Would the Senator yield for a unanimous consent request? Because 5 o'clock is coming.