I think sometimes budget process things are sold for the wrong reasons or misunderstood or judged by the wrong standards.

As has been noted earlier today, our bill, maybe our bills essentially superimpose fast-track authority on top of the President's current rescission authority.

As a percentage of GDP, our national debt stands today at almost 85 percent, a level I think exceeded only during World War II, during the past 70 years.

I have always said that if I cannot convince 50 of my colleagues to support a request that I have made, then I am in the wrong business, or at least I am picking the wrong projects.

Yet, the President says, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Members of Congress say, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Our question is when?

I think the President finally saying, if you include funding again for the F-22, I am going to veto the bill, and that was very helpful.

Do you have any other additional concerns about S. 907 that were part of the 1996 line-item veto debate?

You bet. Thank you.

The use of chemicals in this country either saves, or in many cases improves the quality of not just thousands of lives, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives every day, even more than that.

However, as we all know, exposure to some chemicals or combination of chemicals can be toxic to human health and to our environment.

Understanding the risks from certain chemicals, Congress attempted, I think it was in 1976, to give the EPA the tools necessary to protect public health from certain toxic chemicals in our country through the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Our thanks to your family, as well, for their willingness to share you with the people of our country.

5-day delivery is the only pragmatic structural change that will generate the kinds of savings we are talking about, $3.4 billion according to our studies.

It has been a great opportunity to continue what I do in my day job and also do some public service.

Congress must address this problem by finishing the work that we began in the Continuing Resolution and permanently restructuring the Postal Service's retiree health obligation in a more rational way.

It is important to our country and certainly important, I know, to us.

I would be surprised if we did not.

Let the record show, Senator Casey and I mentor each other.