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If I could simply make the point in the form of a rhetorical question: I am not sure the DREAM Act, as viable as it may be, has a great deal to do with Homeland Security's job on the border. Of course the Lindsey Graham amendment, of which…
First, there was an implication that the administration might not support this amendment. In fact, the administration supports the repeal of this tariff, and they openly supported it. They were on record as supporting it when they were…
I find that to be entirely inconsistent and unsupportable, first, from the testimony of the Department's lower level individuals--who are in charge of these agencies--before the Appropriations subcommittee which I chaired at the time…
I am trying to get to the bottom of the question of whether this budget increases spending over the President's number. The Senator from North Dakota has represented it does not. Yet Senator after Senator from the other side of the aisle…
The Senator listed a whole series of accounts where spending has been increased. I was wondering if the Senator has added up that list he listed there. Is there a total? The Senator listed a specific set of numbers. I added it up to be…
That was not the Wizard of Oz, that was the lion--that was the scarecrow, and clearly, if Dorothy looked at this budget, she would find the Wizard of Oz still behind the curtain.
The New York Times today was reviewing the financial statements of the candidates for President, and I noticed that the former Senator from North Carolina who is running for President, John Edwards, received half a million dollars in…
Because the tax burden is going up in the billions on the side there, the x-axis. Does my colleague see that on the side? It is the amount of tax in billions--the actual taxes you are taking from people, the tax burden, that is the…
He holds up the wall of debt chart. Let me hold up the wall of taxes chart which the Senator from North Dakota is showing in his budget. He is basically proposing dramatic increases in the tax burden on the American people. He claims it is…
I want the Senator to be correct. Was the third year the year you were in charge when we did not have a budget?
I will acknowledge there was no budget last year. But 2 years ago, there was a budget, if you recall, and it actually had a reconciliation instruction in it--a very significant instruction.
Last week, the FDA just sent out a warning to American consumers regarding purchasing medications from certain Internet sites because the FDA cannot verify that the drugs purchased over those sites are going to be safe or that they won't…