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I echo the comments of the senior Senator from Delaware and recognize his expertise as a former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and assure him that I took the same message he did, that Tony Blair is trying to remind us all of…
I rise to join the tribute to the memory of Strom Thurmond that is, very appropriately, the day after his death. Most of the time when someone dies, we gather in great sorrow and we mourn his passing and we think about what might have…
we are debating the substance of the bill that came from the Finance Committee with respect to a prescription drug benefit for Medicare. We all recognize that providing a prescription drug benefit for Medicare is long overdue, something…
I found him competent, direct, thorough, well prepared, and a delightful human being. I want the record to show how highly I esteem him and how enthusiastically I will vote to confirm him for the circuit court position to which he has been…
I am going to take two literary allusions and put them together as the background for the points I wish to make. The first one is a novel that has become a worldwide classic called ``1984,'' written by George Orwell. You may recall that in…
I have been standing shoulder to shoulder with the chairman of the full committee all night, voting against every amendment on the basis that the House would not accept an amendment. Now, the ranking member, Senator Biden, has said the…
Jobs are created by two things. No. 1, enterpreneurism, risk taking, somebody does something. A human activity is required. No. 2, accumulated capital. Jobs come because somebody accumulates enough capital to fund the risk taking. In many…
I ask the Senator, if he is interested, if I gave him the names of another 400 economists who were in favor of the Bush tax cut if he would put them on his chart? Such names are available.
Reference has been made by the Senator from Illinois to the effect of a $2 trillion tax cut. Is it not true that what we are asking for in this bill is that the effect of that tax cut be made now because the effects of that tax cut, as you…
I would like to comment, Mr. President, about Mary Jane Ogilvie. Many public men are described in their own right for their own accomplishments, and then their wives are referred to casually. Senator Alan Simpson's wife, who took my wife…
Yes, that use is entirely permitted. I agree that we should do all that we can to help the Iraqi people and our farmers at the same time.
I have just heard the saddening news that our former colleague, Senator Moynihan of New York, has passed away. This is a great loss for the State of New York, but it is also a great loss for the people of the United States. He was one of…