Trent Lott

You would move a significant portion of the funds in excess of $900 million into another category to be used for exactly what? Will the Senator describe that to me?

While Jim no longer will be toiling with us every day, he is keeping his favorite jobs: husband, father, and grandfather. I am a little envious, to tell the truth. He and his wife, Judy, whom he met while working in the Capitol, are moving…

I would object to the request at this time. But I am encouraged that we could get together and work to try to find a way to develop a list that would complete this very important education bill and bring it to final passage. I think we…

I certainly agree. I have found, as I have gone to my own State and other States, that when people find out what we are doing there--the commitment we have there in terms of the facilities and the troops involved, and how much it is…

For the people watching, you have made the point, and I have made the point, that what this requires is for Congress to do its job to fulfill our responsibility, that while the President clearly has a role--this is not aimed as a criticism…

I believe there has been a lot of misunderstanding or misinterpretation or misinformation about what is in this legislation. Perhaps this was not the best place to put this language, but certainly the timing is propitious. This issue is…

I think we can make progress on military construction. It has broad support because of what is in the base bill and also because it has the emergency funding for Kosovo and fuel for the military. I believe we can complete this bill this…

I certainly believe the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is very important. That is why we have been on it the second week. We have given a lot of time to it. I think that is fine. This is a high priority in the minds of the American…

The marriage tax penalty bill was considered by the Finance Committee, and we had amendments, including an alternative that was offered and seriously considered. The Moynihan alternative amendment has a lot of credibility to it.

For instance, the taxability of the CRP income--I don't know how anyone can stretch that to make it applicable to the Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Act. Second, the request by the Democratic leader did not allow for second-degree amendments…

Is there any difference? I thought you indicated on a couple of these--and I referred to the earlier Kennedy amendment, which really is a major Medicaid change--you made it sound as if it might be relative to the marriage penalty tax.

Let me say we are going to eliminate the marriage tax penalty this year. We are going to do it on this day, and this week, or we will do it later and we will do it with another procedure. We have talked about getting this done too long and…