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not only during Black History Month but appropriately, as we continue to celebrate Black History Month for 2001, the Congressional Black Caucus is using this time and the voice that is afforded to us as members of this body to come before…
I would like to talk about energy as it affects agriculture. Due to high fuel prices, the cost of running farm machinery has skyrocketed. In addition, natural gas is necessary to manufacture fertilizers such as anhydrous ammonia. As the…
rural poverty is a huge, largely unnoticed problem in our Nation. Currently, the three lowest-income counties in the United States are in my district. The poorest county averages less than $4,000 annual income per person. Paradoxically, in…
today, I join several of my colleagues, including the Presiding Officer, in introducing the Open and Accountable Campaign Financing Act of 2001, S. 22. I am pleased to be joined by not only the Presiding Officer, my new colleague from…
I believe Secretary-designate Powell is extraordinarily well-prepared to meet these challenges.
Not since the distinguished service of General George Marshall has a soldier-statesman come to this position with Secretary-designate Powell's degree of experience.
I have been rather vocal over the last 4 years about speaking out against our own unilateral sanction imposition.
I think it has been well covered this morning, but I just wanted for the record to add my voice to that in support.
I thank the Senator. I know that is the intent of the leadership. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
in executive session I ask unanimous consent the Foreign Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of the nomination of Richard N. Gardner, the Senate immediately proceed to his consideration, the nomination be…
I rise to respond very briefly on behalf of this Senator, and I think I speak for the entire body when I say thank you to Senator Spence Abraham from Michigan for his contributions, his leadership, his effectiveness. My grandfather Hagel…
I rise this morning to reflect on the service of our 11 colleagues who will be completing their Senate service in the next few days. Hugh Sidey, one of the great journalists and political observers of our time, who covered eight Presidents…
In my administration, we will ask not only what is legal but also what is right, not just what the lawyers allow but what the public deserves. He went on and said: In my administration, we will make it clear there is the controlling legal…
Essentially, the argument is over. Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are agreeing with us; their Presidential candidate is wrong; we should target tax cuts. Then you move on to the next question, which is, Who is going to get…
One of the most important dividing lines between the two candidates is that the Governor from Texas has been saying Washington, DC should not decide who gets a tax cut and who does not. The Vice President has been saying--not only for…
This is a Small Business piece of legislation. This bill references small business. This is not a Finance Committee bill. The answer is, it is not a Finance Committee bill. Didn't the majority do the legislative equivalent of stealth…
Mr. Speaker, I stand with my friends and colleagues of the Congressional Black Caucus and there are three words that I think kind of epitomizes Bill Clay. Those are: Determination, dedication, and distinguished. He is a man of such…
I think they do understand it. I think they do, but the problem, it seems to me, is you have to step back from time to time and look at the work you are doing, and you have to apply other values, other standards, to it. I just don't, in…