Sep 22, 2016
My experience in these debates, the person who wins is the person who establishes himself with the American people toward the audience, this can be a huge audience, as being one reasonably likable.
Judd Gregg
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September 22, 2016
In Hillary's case, it's a big issue, because of her -- because of the challenges that she has on the ethical side. In Trump's case, it's a big issue, because he's so erratic.
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by number of sources- I hereby submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office under Section 308(b) and in aid of Section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended. This report meets the requirements for Senate scorekeeping of Section 5 of S. Con. Res. 32, the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for 1986. This report shows the effects of congressional action on the 2005 budget through May 25, 2005. The estimates of budget authority, outlays, and revenues are consistent with the technical and economic assumptions of the 2006 Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, H. Con. Res. 95. The estimates show that current level spending is under the budget resolution by $5.106 billion in budget authority and by $72 million in outlays in 2005. Current level for revenues is $407 million above the budget resolution in 2005. This is my first report for fiscal 2005 and I ask unanimous consent to have it printed with the Record corrections to the Senate Committee Allocation tables published on pages 88 and 89 of House Report 109-62, the Report to accompany H. Con. Res. 95, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2006. The allocation amounts for the Finance Committee contained small numerical errors. The tables display the corrected Senate Committee allocations. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC, May 26, 2005. Hon.…13 sources2005govinfo.gov
- pursuant to section 313(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a list of material in S. 1932 considered to be extraneous under subsections (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), and (b)(1)(E) of section 313. The inclusion or exclusion of material on the following list does not constitute a determination of extraneousness by the Presiding Officer of the Senate. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: EXTRANEOUS PROVISIONS--SENATE BILL (Prepared by Senate Budget Committee Majority Staff) Title I--Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Provision Violation/comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ N/A.......................... N/A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title II--Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Provision Violation/comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sec. 2014(b)(3)(F)........... 313(b)(1)(A)--Report to Congress. Sec. 2018(a)................. 313(b)(1)(A)--Studies of potential changes to the federal deposit insurance system--just a study. Sec. 2018(b)................. 313(b)(1)(A)--Studies of potential changes to the federal deposit insurance system--just a study. Sec. 2025....................…5 sources2005govinfo.gov
- I begin by congratulating the Senator from Delaware for bringing this bill forward again, and the Senator from Georgia, who is presently in the Chair, for having been the original author of this bill. This is a very strong piece of legislation which, as the Senator from Delaware has so effectively pointed out, is absolutely critical to the parents of this country as they try to assure the one thing that is most important in most parents' lifestyles in dealing with their kids, beyond giving their kids love and a sense of how to deal with reality and a sense of values, and that is the ability to get a good education. The ability to get a good education, once you get out of the public school system in our country today, is tied, to a great extent, to your ability to pay for that education. Postsecondary school education, even under public school systems, can be extraordinarily expensive. These college savings IRA accounts give parents more flexibility.3 sources2000govinfo.gov
- there have been a lot of representations by the Senator from Massachusetts as to why we are in this position. He need only turn to himself to answer that question. When we marked up this bill in committee, there was an unequivocal, unquestioned agreement, in my opinion, that we would reach accommodation on two parts of this bill. There was significant discussion about the 45-day rule and about the fact that what the language in the bill represented, what the sponsor of the bill represented the language to do, was the opposite of what the language did. It was agreed to by the Senators there--both Republican and Democrat--that that language would be corrected. There was an agreement between the Senator from North Carolina and the Senator from Tennessee that the language dealing with the bioequivalency issue, which is critical in this bill, would be corrected before it got to the floor. The essence of this bill was presented to the committee on Thursday and marked up. Now it is on the floor. That is rather prompt action, to say the least. But the understanding was that, before it got to the floor, these two items would be corrected so that the bill would be in the proper form when it reached the floor. The reason there is delay occurring is that there continues to be a stonewalling of the agreement that was reached in the committee as to correcting those problems.3 sources2002govinfo.gov
- today, I join my esteemed colleague, the Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Kennedy, in introducing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2003. In the past, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, bills received bipartisan votes at the end of a long, divisive and arduous process. What makes today's introduction of a bipartisan IDEA bill so unique is that it is bipartisan in its inception. The reason this is a bipartisan bill is because it strikes the appropriate balance between protecting the educational rights of children with disabilities while simultaneously making IDEA less litigious and compliance based. Above all, the bill is designed to ensure that IDEA resources are directed to help children with disabilities obtain the same opportunity to succeed as all other students. The bill streamlines State and local requirements to ensure that paperwork focuses on improved results for children with disabilities. By eliminating the need for an 800+ procedural checklist, these amendments favor the improvement of educational and functional results for children with disabilities over burdensome bureaucratic rules. The bill responds to concerns that we've heard from both parents and school administrators alike on how the law has evolved into a full employment government program for lawyers.3 sources2003govinfo.gov
- we are now back on the Homeland Security bill, which is an important piece of legislation as it addresses the issues of how we protect our Nation and how we deal with border security and threats involving potential weapons of mass destruction. It also addresses the issue of the management of the Department of Homeland Security, especially in areas where there have been issues, primarily--well, almost every function of the Department has had some issues, but the ones that have been highlighted, of course, are those dealing with the Katrina catastrophe and FEMA's response to that. It is an important piece of legislation for a variety of issues, but I want to carry on a little bit with the discussion--and then I want to yield to the Senator from Louisiana, who has an amendment, but I want to continue the discussion on the issue which has been raised relative to the report that was put out today, the midsession review. It is important for people to understand we are functioning in a Government that has fairly significant fiscal issues. We came out of the 1990s with the largest bubble in the history of this Nation, the Internet bubble--in the history of the world, honestly. And that bubble burst. That was a bubble in the tradition of the tulip bubble and the South Seas bubble, where basically people were printing money without any support behind it--called stocks. Stocks were being issued that had no value behind them.…2 sources2006govinfo.gov
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Sep 13, 2016
If all the nuclear power plants were closed in this country, it's the equivalent of adding 115 million cars to the road.
Sep 13, 2016
There's never been a death at a nuclear power plant as a result of a reactor accident in the United States.
Sep 13, 2016
Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.
Sep 13, 2016
Why would we do it? Because it makes no sense, from the standpoint of policy.
Sep 13, 2016
Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.
Sep 13, 2016
Our Nation's nuclear power plants are vital national assets that provide reliable, carbon-free electricity.
Sep 13, 2016
the issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.
Sep 13, 2016
It makes no sense to close down nuclear reactors if they still have useful life.
Sep 13, 2016
Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.