We are committed to going forward with comprehensive LIDAR surveys.

I think you can realize where I'm coming from after the Oso Darrington mudslide.

So, Spokane and communities across the Northwest are at the mercy of a lumbering Federal bureaucracy.

I think my communities are thinking you're thinking more about industry than thinking about communities.

Thank you for the Administration's leadership on the proposal that you brought in to fill the Highway Trust Fund including $10 billion in dedicated Multimodal Freight program.

We're urging a mandatory date for getting rid of these DOT-111 cars and a mandatory rule on safety.

Making it voluntary, in my opinion, isn't going far enough.

I rise today to express my support for the nomination of Stanley Bastian to be a district judge for the Eastern District of Washington. Stan Bastian is exactly the kind of highly qualified Federal judge eastern Washington needs. The…

I certainly support, for example, the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank.

I personally think one of the things the committee is going to do is increase the 7(a) cap to a higher level to get more money out there.

we think small business is a great economic development strategy for our country, in general.

I want us to grow small businesses. But we have to demystify access to capital and make sure we're increasing access to capital.

I would rather be rewarded.

Washington State has, I think, the 6th-highest rate of marketplace enrollment in the country, so we obviously have had a lot of success in getting people coverage.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Wanda Felton, of New York, to be First Vice President…

I join my colleagues and thank the Senator from Missouri for her statement as somebody who has been involved in basically making sure the law is implemented and upheld too. I appreciate her views. I thank Senator Mikulski for her…

this is a very keen interest obviously to my colleagues, Senator Begich and to myself

One of the options, I believe, is continuing to make things simpler from a technology perspective.

the United States is lagging behind, as your chart well depicts, the other primary Arctic nations

So would you say that we don't really have a plan for cleaning it--we don't have the technology available to clean this up if, in fact, we did have an incident?

we want to be competitive with our shipping interest in the Arctic as well

we want to understand whether the Coast Guard feels a new process should be undertaken for this technology

I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 407, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the provisions of S. Res. 407, as a further mark of respect in memory of the late Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. There…

I ask unanimous consent that with respect to the Owens nomination confirmed today, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action and the Senate then…