The President can do it now. And there are so many other laws, unjust sentences that he could take care of by commuting sentences, and he needs to do it.

It's a critical issue and one I hope we can find some common ground on.

H.R. 1493 threatens to undermine rulemaking by tilting this playing field in favor of anti-regulatory forces at taxpayers' expense.

I wish that we were concentrating on antitrust and airlines and what they are doing to the American consumer and employee in this country.

This amendment would require that TransCanada and any future owner-operator of the Keystone XL pipeline, if there be one, submit its oil spill response plan to the Governor of each State in which the pipeline operates. I'm well aware that…

I ask that we unanimously support this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 7, after line 23, insert the following: SEC. 9. OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN DISCLOSURE. (a) In…

I don't agree with Senator Baucus' statement. I think we are very much on schedule; we are moving forward.

Each day he is in prison, in my opinion, is a grave injustice because all that man did... was politics.

I believe we need to look at that case.

There was a recent survey of about 9,000 outstanding high school and college students and graduates asking them where they would like to work. They had 200 companies that were all in the Fortune magazine list of top companies. I'm proud of…

There are people in jail, and your Justice Department has continued to put people in jail, for sale and use on occasion of marijuana.