Pete Domenici

I hope that, once again, the Senate will reject it. But while we delay in playing these games, we jeopardize the passage of the CAFE standards and a real increase in much-needed renewable fuel standards should be able to be put to work…

This farm bill is called the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007. I cannot think of an amendment more relevant to the economic security of the American farmer and energy security of the American people than an amendment to increase the…

this doesn't mark the end of this bill. This marks the beginning of completing a process in the Senate so we will have a bill that can be signed and that will be an excellent bill for the American people. That means we have to go to work…

I rise to recognize MAJ Thomas A. Rogers, Jr. of the U.S. Air Force for the exceptional work he rendered this past year while serving as a legislative fellow on my staff. Major Rogers is completing his Capitol Hill fellowship this month…

I rise late in the debate because I know it is an important issue, and I find myself wanting to say to the people of Peru that this Senator who comes from the State of New Mexico, where almost half our people speak Spanish--a commonality…

Today's Washington Post Science section contains an excellent summary on the work America is doing to develop the fastest computers in the world and the benefits to all of us from such computers. The headline on the story, 'Faster…

I came here to just spread the Record with a couple of minutes of my observations about the WRDA bill and to suggest that the President of the United States made a mistake. This bill should not have been vetoed. This bill is totally an…

I understand it is the majority's prerogative to fill the amendment tree, and it has been done by leaders of both parties in the past. However, I wanted to go on record about the potential serious danger of this process. Earlier, the…

These two bills are so different, so different, that they are incompatible. So you cannot say marry them, because that marriage cannot last. You cannot start it because the bills are diametrically different, with the exception of a few…

I suggest that this is absolutely imperative. For citizens who are on disability to have to wait 2 years on an appeal, as the Senator said, is unacceptable. The money this is providing will take care of that. He asked the administrator…

today my good friend Senator Dodd and I submitted a resolution designating the week of October 21 as the 2007 National Character Counts Week. Our character is the foundation of who we are as people and how we are perceived by the world…

My amendment to the Defense authorization bill calls for a review of the Department of Energy's strategic plan for advanced computing. This review would be completed by the independent scientific advisory group and assess where the…