Ahead of liberal environmental groups. I encourage my colleagues on the floor with me today, mr. President , to continue pushing for policies that make energy more abundant and more affordable, unlike the heavyhanded regulations weve seen from the Obama Administration, these policies will actually create jobs and help grow the middle class in this country. Im going to continue fighting along with my colleagues who are here, joined me on the floor today to ensure we get votes on these policies and begin to rein in the outofcontrol regulations from the Obama Administration. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt im pleased to be here with my colleagues talking about ways we can get people back to work, Energy Policies that clearly every economist that you talk to understands are a key to the future, i know the republican leader has joined us on the floor and i think im going to ask him if he has some comments hed like to make and can