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It will serve as the framework, both intentionally and unintentionally, for the future.

While I cannot predict the future, I believe that what we decide in this chamber this week will influence America's security and role in the world for the coming decades.

In authorizing the use of force against Iraq, we are at the beginning of a road that has no clear end.

While this conference report authorizes appropriations for the Justice Department, it also establishes federal judgeships. Despite the efforts of Chairman Sensenbrenner, this legislation fails to make permanent Nebraska's temporary…

this Conference Report does not include a permanent Judgeship for the State of Nebraska. Since 1998 Nebraska has exceeded the weighted standard of 430 filings per judge, and in 2001, that number grew to 482 filings. Without this permanent…

I rise to honor South Carolina's senior Senator Strom Thurmond. Senator Thurmond will turn 100 on December 5. Only 126 years before Senator Thurmond's birth, the United States of America gained its independence; 37 years before Senator…

I rise in support of S. 1240 as well, and urge Members to support its passage. This bill includes my bill, H.R. 5097, to expand the boundaries of the Salt River National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve located on St. Croix, Virgin…

I rise to speak on H. Res. 525, expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should pass a welfare bill before September 30th. The Welfare Reform bill is among the most significant and important pieces of legislation…

in good conscience, I rise in support of H.R. 1784. The Women's Health Office Act of 2002 amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Office on Women's Health…

during the past 30 days of working recess, the number one topic in my part of the country has been the drought, and I would like to display a map of the drought as was portrayed at the end of August. Note here that roughly 45 percent of…

the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act is similar to H.R. 3994, sponsored by the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Congressman Hyde. The House of Representatives passed this bill on May 16 by a vote of 390-22. The…

my friend and distinguished colleague, the senior Senator from Massachusetts, talks about a common ground. This proposal is the common ground. As my colleague, Senator Ensign, has just stated, this addresses those who need the help the…

Mr. President, this debate in which our body has engaged over the last 5 days I believe has been helpful for our country because it has focused on a critical need, a need to come forward with a Medicare prescription drug plan, a plan that…

I want to cover some areas of concern and questions that have been addressed, appropriately so, regarding the amendment, but let me generally make a comment in response to my friend from Massachusetts. One of the results the distinguished…

It seems to me that 42 years of trade embargoes with Cuba have not changed Cuban Government policies, have not changed North Korea, Sudan, Libya, or Syria. Forty years ago U.S. controlled most of the ag commodities in the world. The…

we have spent 4 days debating and voting on two Medicare prescription drug proposals, the Graham-Miller-Kennedy bill and the so-called tripartisan bill. I have worked with Senators Ensign, Lugar, Phil Gramm, Inhofe, Santorum, and Gregg to…

I rise to support H. Res. 496, sponsored by the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson). I really appreciate her leadership on this particular issue. As other speakers have mentioned, there are a number of former major league baseball…

I will admit to the gentleman, coming from the State of Nebraska, that I will have leanings towards securing, especially in a time when we are in a severe drought and I have already been told that for the State of Nebraska, from the…