station, and they'll send in a squadron down here to key west, and when they lift off from the boca chica runway, within two minutes they're over protected airspace so they don't have a lot of travel time, they don't spend a lot of gas getting to their training area, which is out here. so you see that we have this area that is now protected. now, i would like to enter into the record a letter from the secretary of defense, and this is actually from the previous secretarsecretary of defense, sy rumsfeld, in which he says that the uses of this for oil and gas production would be incompatible with the needs of the united states military in this test and training area. and i will submit that for the record, if i may. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: all right. mr. president, here's what people don't wanted -- don't understand, is that the committee adopted this amendment 13-10. they don't realize this is the largest testing and training area for the united states military. that's why in the legislation, in law, we protect everything east of that line that we passed three