cantwell: madam president, i request unanimous consent that senator franken's energy fellow, michael blotter, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this congress. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: madam president, i'm hoping that before we go to the caucus lunches, we'll be able to move forward on a few more scheduling of votes. but hopefully we'll be able to do that in a few minutes, so i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: ms. cantwell: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: madam president, i request the proceedings under the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: we're making good progress here in the intervening hours since we came to the floor this morning and began business working with the ranking member on the energy and natural resources committee. we have come to you to announce a series of amendments that will be voted on, asking unanimous consent for that. i want to acknowledge that the effort

that recognize carbon neutrality of forest biomass, an effort championed by senators collins, king, franken, crapo and rich. you don't often see these large groups of senators coming together in a way that we have seen under this bill. some would look at the names and that i read, that they had anything to work on but these issues broadened together. this has truly been a team effort with members reaching out to one another, lining up behind each other's ideas. working to ensure their adoption. the best proof of that is a simple review of our bill. energy policy modernization acting clouds priorities sponsored or co-sponsored by 62 members of the senate. when was the last time we saw that level of cooperation and collaboration. 62 members. more in three fifth of the senate contributed something to this energy bill and when done processing the amendments we are not done with that. my staff and the staff of senator can well have been comparing notes about feedback we have been getting outside the chamber and what we found from the very time we started working through the committee process to