Jim Webb: “We can--and must--do better by our miners when it comes to enforcing safety regulations and ensuring that companies…”

Thank you, Mr. President. I thank the Parliamentarian for that clarification. (The remarks of Mr. Webb pertaining to the introduction of S. 3372 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

We do support the validity of internationally accepted Exclusive Economic Zones, those that are set out under basically agreed-upon international law.

Yesterday was a really incredible day. And I have said many times that that came about, in my view, largely because of the courage of two people.

I have been in a number of meetings where each of you took us to the woodshed about needing to try harder.