You take Exxon-Mobil's last profits, and if I recall correctly, with five percent of their annual profits they could outspend both Presidential Candidate McCain and Presidential Candidate Obama.

Why isn't it helpful to simply know what is being used as the frack fluid so that you don't have to investigate where diesel is being used because the company would have reported it already since it is being injected into public land…

we have come to the end of a long process that has had some signal moments to it. Clearly, one signal moment was a few days ago when the tea party activists came to the Capitol--came to this building--gathered outside, and were led by…

I have been listening to the remarks of my friend from Wyoming. I noticed that he repeatedly indicated that what we needed to do in this building was to keep the military funded, to deal with the deficit, and to cut spending. It is my firm…

Absolutely. I yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.

I agree with the Senator from New York. I cannot recall a single Senator expressing any desire for a shutdown. I have been present in our caucus meetings. Not one person has once said there is anything good about a shutdown. We are all…

If, in fact, this is really about the deficit and if, in fact, this is really about reducing spending and if, in fact, this is really about ensuring the military remains funded, why is it necessary to have it be a nonnegotiable condition…

My time has expired. I thank the Senator from New York for his question. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.

I think it is important that we take up a cyber security bill this year and begin to move to repair some of the very wide open vulnerabilities that we have that are being exploited to vast effect by our economic rivals and our National…

I really appreciate Chairman Leahy having called this hearing.

We have to adapt to those changes, but I do believe that we can bring the same principles and the same desire for a sensible balance.

Pretty significant national security cost to precipitate with a Government shutdown.

I do not know that there is an established privacy right cognizable under the Fourth Amendment regarding your location.

Abraham Lincoln began his famous ``house divided'' speech with simple, homespun advice that we should first ``know where we are and whither we are tending,'' before we ``judge what to do and how to do it.'' We are embarked on a journey of…

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

the flooding was so significant, and the evidence that climate changes are in fact creating far more heavy precipitation events

we have 95 high hazard dams in Rhode Island. Obviously, we need your help with them.

we just want to know how bad the situation is in terms of the likelihood of what we need getting funded

as we continue to debate important small business legislation, I rise today to discuss an amendment to further support investment and job creation in U.S. companies. In particular, my amendment would bolster our domestic manufacturing…

As the Administrator of GSA, I believe you are the largest single consumer of energy in the United States, accounting for 1.5 percent of the Nation's annual energy consumption.

Let me thank the Administrator for her testimony today. I appreciate very much that you took the trouble to come up and you are excused onto your other duties.

My time has expired here and I have also been summoned to the last bit of a Judiciary Committee hearing I need to attend.

It does not fix the other problem but it is at least clarification on that.

The Federal Government, which you tend to administer behind, is the Nation's largest consumer of electronics.

We are also very pleased that a Rhode Island contractor is doing that work and creating jobs.