We had a big problem in South Dakota this last year during the spring. There was a real concern about getting fertilizer shipments there in time to plant the 2014 crop during that short planting window.

I consider it a failure on my part to expose certain things and techniques.

Mr. Dooley, you talked about some of the rail inefficiencies in the chemical industry.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from South…

[r]eplacing NTIA's role with another governmental organization would be disastrous and we would vigorously oppose such a plan.

I rise today to talk about the disturbing leadership failure we are seeing out of the White House. Over the past year the President and his administration have seemed increasingly out of touch with the many challenges facing our country at…

I wish to end on what my colleagues, the Senator from Kentucky and the leader, Senator McConnell, say. Senator Graham, Senator Ayotte, and I appreciate Senator McConnell's leadership in making very clear what is at stake here, pushing hard…

AGOA is a great, important program that is helping the nations of sub-Saharan Africa raise their standards of living and adopt the rule of law.

We need TPA. You can negotiate the best agreements possible, TTIP and TPP, but we are not going to get them through Congress without Trade Promotion Authority.

I just think it is a huge issue. Europe is a huge export market for Africa, and, if you want to see the African people, countries on that continent, be able to better feed themselves, as well as to export and grow an economy, that issue is…

Should we be concerned that this practice will have the same risk of cramming for consumers as premium text messaging did?

But in your view, though, the FCC is best equipped to deal with the carrier component of that.

It seems to be universal that customers need to look at their bills, whether they are paper, online, and be aware and be prepared to call and question any charges they do not recognize.

I commend the Chairman and staff for shining a light on these abuses.

the FTC and the FCC have 'concurrent enforcement jurisdiction over mobile telephone companies' billing and collection of third-party charges for non-telecommunications services.'

I rise today to speak in opposition to the legislation pending before the Senate, the so-called Bring Jobs Home Act. I oppose this bill because it is a political stunt designed as an election-year campaign ploy that will have no meaningful…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. THE ECONOMY

here we are--another day in the Senate-- facing another political gimmick. That is the way things seem to work in the Democratic Senate, and that is what is happening again this week. Yesterday Democrats introduced their latest…

I think it is a really important issue. It is one that I think most of us hear a lot about, standards that in some cases are leading to food being not eaten, tossed aside, also standards that are creating a significant financial burden on…

As we look at this issue I think we have to remember that there is not any federal law, regulation, or policy that should be considered a gold standard and not to be changed.

When you make bad rules, you get bad outcomes.

Is it not the case that income earned in the United States remains subject to U.S. tax regardless of the corporate structure?

I appreciate the answers to these questions, and I would ask if I could get my statement... included in the record.

We need to change the rules. We need to reform the tax code.

We have an outdated, dysfunctional tax code, with the highest rate in the developed world.