ms. stabenow: thank you. i ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendments be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, and any related statements be printed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. stabenow: i would now ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 390, h.r. 2668. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 390, h.r. 2668, an act to designate the station of the united states border patrol located at 2136 south naco highway in bisby, arizona, as the brian a. terry border patrol station. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. ms. stabenow: thank you. i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and any related statem

ms. stabenow: five minutes or so. mr. conrad: we'll allocate it all. ms. stabenow: first of all, let me thank the chairman of the budget committee who i have to say is going to be sorely missed. in fact, i'm not sure we're going to let him go at the end of the year. i think we're going to put up some doors, lock the doors in his office and not let him leave. he has been such an incredible valued member of the senate and a leader for our country on these issues. it's absolutely true that what we're really debating is whether we go back to policies that put us in the huge deficit ditch that we find ourselves in or whether we continued to go forward as a country. we need to keep going forward and going forward even more quickly, certainly, but in my state we are seeing us begin to move forward, with manufacturing coming back, innovation, opportunities, and we need to continue to push for that. but let me stress as well what the chairman has said. we passed a budget control act by 74 votes in the united states senate. 74 votes, bipartisan vote. on august 2 of 2