Bob Bennett: “The revenues that come from oil and natural gas, next to the income tax, are the largest source of revenue in the…”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

We should be very, very careful as we proceed in these waters because we can mess things up pretty badly.

I do not dispute in any way, Mr. Chairman, the numbers that you have cited, but I do not want to leave the impression that all of the obstruction that has come as a result of the use of holds has come from the Minority side.

the whole question of minority rights in the Senate is one of the most significant ones we can deal with, and the filibuster has changed over the years.