floor. mr. sullivan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: thank you, mr. president. i just want to commend my colleague, senator murkowski, who occupies certainly one of the most important positions in the country with regard to energy as the chairman of the energy and natural resources committee for her leadership on this bill and so many other bills. i'm proud to be a cosponsor with a number of other senators on the american energy and conservation act, which will be taken up here in a few minutes. and i just want to echo what senator murkowski said about this bill. it's really a commonsense bill. we already have revenue sharing for onshore oil and gas production, so it only makes sense, really, it's only fair, as she noted very articulately that the states closest to the impacts of o.c.s. drilling also receive their fair share of revenues from resource