heitkamp: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to immediate consideration of calendar number 552, s. 2511. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 552, s. 2511, a bill to amend the employee retirement income security act

heitkamp: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to immediate consideration of calendar number 552, s. 2511. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 552, s. 2511 a bill to amend the employee retirement income security act of 1974 and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. ms. heitkamp: i ask further that the committee-reported amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. heitkamp: i ask unanimous consent that the energy committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 2440 and the senate proceed to its consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 2440 a bill to expand and extend the program to improve coordination by the bureau of left-hand management and for oth

nevada, mikulski, feinstein, blumenthal, casey, walsh, hirono, booker, heitkamp, boxer, nelson, durban, white house, klobuchar, reed of rhode island, and levin. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the filing deadline under rule 22 of the first-degree amendments to h.j. res. 124 be 2:00 this afternoon and the filing deadline for second-degree amendments be 3:30 p.m. today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the motion to table an amendment to the joint resolution provided under the previous order be in order during the time for debate, if made during the debate the vote on the motion to table occur immediately after all debate time has been used or yielded back on h.j. res. 124. further that if a budget point of order is made the motion to waive be considered made and the vote on the motion to waive occur following the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on h.j. res. 124. the presiding officer: without

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i visited one of them with senator heidi heitkamp in north dakota about three or four months ago. we visited this small mail processing center in a -- in her beautiful state, and we went into the back operating area of the mail processing center, and there was a fellow there. he is probably 50-some years old. he was lugging around these big boxes, these big boxes that they were mailing, somebody had mailed, and he is carrying around, trying to get them over a bar code reader and put them in a huge -- not a knapsack but a big pouch so they could be mailed. there is equipment that can readily process big boxes like that, smaller packages and parcels, and we don't have it in most of our mail processing centers, and we could -- if we did, we could offer better, faster, timelier, more competitive service. and so if we capitalize on the postal service, among the things the postal service could do, if we had $30 billion over the next ten years, replace their fleet of 190,000 vehicles with more energy-efficient vehicles, appropriate for the size for the kind of packages they deliver. 300-

friend, senator heitkamp, had to go and provide -- pres ide over the senate. he was talking about the equipment you need. for dr. wilson shaking your head -- are the things we can do to help with equipment needs? countrywe do across the , in the training on how to use the aquatic, that is definitely an issue. there are a lot of infrastructures in schools that do not have coolers and freezers, and schools that were built without kitchens. as people begin to progress into this different mode into feeding children in our school system, updating equipment, getting new agreement is definitely a need out there. we used to have equipment grants when i first started in the business, and it was wonderful. you could get some very nice pieces of equipment during equipment now can be universal. you can use it to steam, wake, roasts him a all from one piece bake, roast, all from equipment. >> how do you bring in your local farming groups? i am from indiana, and one of the proudest our farmers is to see their products used in local towns. how do you bring that together -- d

. >> my friend, senator heitkamp, had to go and provide -- pres ide over the senate.e was talking about the equipment you need. this is for dr. wilson shaking your head -- are the things we can do to help with equipment needs? >> what we do across the country , in the training on how to use the aquatic, that is definitely an issue. there are a lot of infrastructures in schools that do not have coolers and freezers, and schools that were built without kitchens. as people begin to progress into this different mode into feeding children in our school system, updating equipment, getting new agreement is definitely a need out there. we used to have equipment grants when i first started in the business, and it was wonderful. you could get some very nice pieces of equipment during equipment now can be universal. you can use it to steam, wake, roasts him a all from one piece -- steam, bake, roast, all from one piece of equipment. >> how do you bring in your local arming groups? i am from indiana, and one of the proudest moments from our farmers is to see their products used i

. >> we also had heidi heitkamp on this week.ters. >> it's already in the market, you said. >> we're already at 8.8 million barrels a day. what we're going to get in total is not going to surpass 10. that's another million and a half barrels a day going to be added to supply. again, we're talking about in the chinese emerging market alone, a 10 million barrel a day increase in demand that's going to occur in the next 15 years. that you don't get from u.s. shale. it's got to come from somewhere else. >> all right. we're going to keep having you back. you're going to have to keep doing this. >> i just want to see if it -- >> it worked for ten years, joe. it's going to be wrong for a couple of months. >> i like it lower. that's what i'm saying. and the world likes it lower. >> you've been talking all week about normalization about oil prices. i wanted to ask you what's a normal oil price? >> $10 a barrel. >> those days will never come back. >> i want $1.30 a gallon. i do. >> i don't blame you. i do too. >> i pine for -- we're of sim