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I have been uncomfortable for almost 30 years to be introduced as a hero, and it made me somewhat uncomfortable in part because I did do something that was simply my duty; I didn't feel that evening that I had done anything necessarily out…

I also wish to commend my friend, the senior Senator from Mississippi, for reintroducing his defense initiative. Missile defense is as critical a challenge as this country faces, not just for the short term, but for the long term, and I…

Mr. President, I support credit unions and the cost-efficient service they provide to their members. Our amendment, which we are offering today, is not designed to hurt credit unions. To the contrary, our amendment is designed to keep…

I would be prepared to withdraw this amendment and to work with the Senator from Missouri and the Senator from Maryland as well as the Senator from Rhode Island and the Senator from Montana, the ranking members of the Environment and…

Well, my hope is that by listening to these wonderful arguments, there is going to be persuasion. You are saying that you want to move to table my amendment and leave and go into morning business, and then I will have 2 minutes tomorrow to…

Are you basically saying you want to move to table my amendment and then walk out? Is that it? You will leave and we will say we are in morning business; is that the offer?

I am perfectly willing to make an effort to accommodate. Unfortunately, I am in a situation where I don't feel like I am going to get much accommodation from the Senators in communities that are going to spend millions of dollars to invest…

That letter comes on behalf of people who are in the packing industry. I just tell colleagues that if you have ranchers or feed lot operators in your State, they support the change. There is a division in this particular association that…

This issue really is about children, though, and parental consent and the parents having some say. If a child is not going to tell his or her parent about a possible abortion that they want to seek, they are not going to seek the parents'…

I would like to report on a comment made this morning by a senior World Bank official warning of a looming global recession. He says, ``We are probably at the end of the first cycle of a crisis and we are entering into a deep recession…

If we head in the direction of finding a scapegoat here what we will miss is an opportunity to debate what our policy ought to be toward the largest democracy on Earth. In addition to the other things that the Senator said about India…

Personally, I think it would be a waste of money to direct the CIA to read the New York Times and report to us what is contained in there relevant to any part of the world, let alone in India.

I do believe in this kind of oversight where we ask four key people, three of whom are new creations under this law, to come and tell the oversight committee how well this new law is doing and if there is any additional changes in the law…

I would like to declare that I think we should be having a yearly hearing hosted by the Senate's Finance Committee with the IRS Commissioner, with the chair of the new oversight board created in this new law, the National Taxpayer…

This amendment offered by Senator Grassley and I will fix a problem having to do with Federal tax refunds and State offsets. For those of us that have State income tax, there is a problem of some considerable proportion. I thank Chairman…

I hope the answer is no, for gosh sakes. We understand what the nature of bribery is.

This amendment addresses a very important problem that we saw in the oversight hearings that the chairman conducted, and that is sometimes the payment made to induce an individual to provide evidence against a taxpayer who is violating the…

Senator Grassley not only was on the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, along with myself and Congressman Portman and Congressman Cardin on the House side, but long before I ever became interested in this issue, Senator…