Judd Gregg

I ask during the quorum call the time be equally charged. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I ask to amend the unanimous consent request that Senator Stevens be allowed to proceed, as Senator Kerry, in morning business, and not charged to the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

39 percent of this benefit went to 1 company, 39 percent; and $2 billion of the $3 billion that is going to go out of this is going to go to a small group of companies that deal in lumber. Those dollars belong to the American taxpayer…

I just want to note that the exchange, which was very informative, between the Senator from Arizona and the Senator from Oklahoma was in relationship to the Defense bill, and we are on the deficit reduction bill. Those items which the…

The Senator is going to speak as if in morning business, I believe, but on the bill.

the PATRIOT Act has been inserted into this debate, which is unfortunate, but I do think it is important to make a couple of points in response to the Senator from Michigan because there is misrepresentation here, in my opinion, as to the…

And the treaty says we submit issues to the WTO, we debate them. We win sometimes; we lose sometimes. On this issue, the WTO ruled that because we specifically send this money out to specific corporations--and there is only one that got 39…

Should I charge this to the Senator's time? Essentially, I am clarifying the Senator's point. I will do this on my time. Essentially, the origination fees are being eliminated under this bill. I point out that the initiatives which are in…

is the time running against both sides? The PRESIDING OFFICER. If time is not yielded, it will be charged equally against both sides.

prior to yielding to the Senator from Colorado, I am going to take a minute and a half, which would be the minute Senator Schumer had and the half minute which we so graciously gave the Senator from North Dakota. I would simply point out…

I have not yielded the floor yet. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire retains the floor.

First, I am going to object, and then I will yield. But I will not yield on my time. I will yield on the time of the Senator from North Dakota. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?