The Public Record
I thank Senator Byrd, because I am extremely concerned about this situation and hope we could find a remedy. I commend the Senator for his work over many years, to try to make sure our trade laws are fairly enforced and that agreements we…
in the underlying bill, which makes a tremendous amount of progress, in my opinion, with protecting the homeland--increasing funding for port security, transportation, et cetera, and I have said publicly and privately my great thanks, on…
the underlying bill that Chairman Byrd and Ranking Member Cochran have put together is really good work. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I am pleased to have worked on this bill. Senator Murray has provided some extraordinary…
This is a very strong and clear and unwavering statement tonight that the President and the Republican leadership are leading this country in the wrong direction, and now is the time to change it. I have not been to Hollywood too many…
I also say to the Senator, I am a cosponsor of the Iraq Study Group legislation by Senator Salazar, on which he worked so hard and so honestly to build bipartisan support. But what happened when the President gave his State of the Union…
We have all learned many things since this disaster happened, and one of the things we have learned, I guess rather painfully, is that it is not only the geographic area that is struck by the high wind, the high waters or the flood waters…
I wish to send my best wishes to the new Kazakhstan Secretary of State, Kanat Saudabayev. Before assuming his new position, Secretary Saudabayev served as the Kazakh Ambassador to the United States for almost 7 years. During this time, I…
I wanted to rise as a Member who served with Senator Thomas on the Energy Committee, someone who worked fairly closely with him, although we are not of the same political party, to reiterate just a few things about his character. This life…
I begin by thanking majority leader Harry Reid for his extraordinary work in helping to negotiate the full Katrina-Rita package that many of us worked on to try to accelerate and jump-start the recovery that is underway slowly, solidly in…
The $3.3 billion in the underlying WRDA bill represents about 20 percent of the total bill. As I tried to explain to some of my constituents at home, if we were talking about a desert bill we would probably have zero money in this bill…
I am hoping my good colleague from Oklahoma will think about the possibility of withdrawing his amendment because I am going to submit some things for the Record that I think might have a bearing. First of all, I think he offered his…
This particular visitor center, like several others, is not just for extra recreation, I say to my colleague. This is the heart and soul of tourism in this region. We do not have big cities like New York and Chicago in this region. Maybe…