I too want to thank you for your tremendous leadership here at the Small Business Committee.

We must work together to improve public safety in Indian Country.

I too come to the floor to say goodbye to our colleague from Montana and wish him well in his new endeavor as Ambassador to China--something the Pacific Northwest cares dearly about. So I know we will be working with him in his new…

I rise today to join my colleagues in asking for the passage of the farm bill that we are going to have a vote on shortly. I thank my colleague from Michigan, the Chair of the Agriculture Committee, for her unbelievable work on this very…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct an oversight hearing to conduct a hearing entitled…

We've had some of the highest gas prices in the Nation constantly.

I certainly believe that it's a global market and a global price.

Some consumers could pay as much as 5 to 10 cents more per gallon if the ban is lifted.

I have a great deal of passion for Indian Country and the issues that affect them.

Thank you personally, Chairwoman Cantwell, for the time that you spent with us on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on January 29, 2014, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 2:30 p.m. to conduct a business meeting to consider the…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on January 29 2014, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m. to conduct a legislative hearing to receive…

While you can complain about that, and you can say, well, this agreement or that agreement will catch us up, to me, the real issue becomes market share.

I think that is what we need to do: to look at this from a comprehensive perspective and try to move forward.

I think making sure that, as we say, you know, with American Express, it has its privileges, that U.S. citizenship has its privileges and it's the right to privacy.

I personally would make it like the Miranda rights, everybody would know what they are.

transparency is very important to this process.

I am hoping that in this position you will be able to further both of those issues and find the right balance.

Making sure that U.S. citizens are protected needs to be a pretty basic right.

I hope that you will work, as the head of this organization, to pay attention to these privacy issues.

the issue is, this larger issue that we're having resonates in the same way, which is the unauthorized collection, storage, and sharing of private data and information without someone's knowledge.

I wish to thank Leader Reid, Chairman Baucus, Senator Schumer, Senator Stabenow, Senator Wyden, Senator Brown, and Senator Menendez for coming to the floor to talk about this important issue of tax extenders and why we need to get them…

At New Year's, as the ball drops in Times Square, a number of other tax provisions are going to expire, and the lapse of these important tax provisions makes it harder for Americans to invest in clean energy, to hire veterans, to pay for…

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for that question. I think his charts pointed to the fact that he was articulating, the fact that everybody is arguing about the Web site. As somebody who has been involved in a software company that…

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island. He is correct. There are the individuals who win. The State in this case saves Medicaid dollars, and the Federal Government saves dollars as well. But to the individual, if you ask them, this is their…