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I guess I go back to a fundamental question of management, not by him but of the administration, a fundamental question about what it is they anticipate will be the costs involving fighting the war in Iraq--not for this year but for the…

I will use the remainder of my leader time to make a couple of remarks with regard to the Bingaman amendment, but I, too, want to join the Senator from Illinois in expressing our gratitude to the Senator from West Virginia for his…

That is exactly what we would be suggesting with the first amendment the caucus will propose. The distinguished Senator has characterized it exactly right. Why not give seniors a little more choice? But with that choice, perhaps a little…

If I could think of one word as I consider the prospect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it would be ``overdue.'' It is overdue. It is long past due. I hope on a bipartisan basis we continue to demonstrate…

This amendment is based on a misconception. The misconception is that somehow there is a mandate to begin with. There is no mandate for the States under this bill. There is a requirement that refiners find a way to reach the goals that we…

I firmly believe this bill fails on all counts. What is more remarkable is that this bill represents, in my view, a strategy that was employed just 2 years ago, with disastrous results. In the name of economic stimulus, the administration…

I would say, if I recall what the report says, it is 80 percent or 90 percent of the Guard and Reserve who have coverage at some time during the year. We have as high as 30 percent of our recruits in the National Guard in South Dakota who…

Officers and enlisted personnel are more likely than junior personnel to have coverage. Only 60 percent of junior enlisted personnel, about 90 percent of whom are under age 35, had coverage. That means 40 percent of the junior personnel…

First I would like to say thank you to all of my Texas colleagues who joined us tonight. This has been a wonderful debate and examination of the issues. Mr. Speaker, the glorious history of Texas records many brave events like the Battle…

I believe that is the truth, and I guess they are treating them as exploited children. I do not know, but it is clearly a misuse of the purpose of that notification center. It is absolutely outrageous; and as the gentleman knows from his…

Apparently, Mr. Laney is along with the other Texas heroes. He is in Oklahoma, standing up for Texas voters, standing up for the people of Texas and our Constitution after having been trailed there by Federal investigators and Federal…

The record is very clear. In those years, we had surpluses for the first time in almost 40 years. We were able to begin paying down the debt some $600 billion totally, and if the Senator will recall, there was even debate by those who were…

My grandchildren drink the water. They bathe in it. Their food is cooked in it. I want it to be nothing but healthy. But the worst environment in the world, a lousy environment, is when you are cold and you are hungry and you are…

Sir, the forest fire in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, you pick your State, Washington, Oregon, California, South Dakota, the forest fires there in the last several years, each of the years, those fires, it will take over 100 years to…

Sir, all I want to do is save them. I am for saving the forests. I am 63 years old. I am out of here soon. But I have got grandchildren. I have got five grandchildren. These forests belong to them. Those forests are their heritage, and…

I think they care. I do not think they think about it. Because sometimes, especially in this country, we all get so driven that we are going to accomplish our objective our way that we ignore the needs of other people. It is the old…

And places east. All the way across the country. It affects the sunlight. It affects the haze that we get, the smell that we get. But more importantly, that haze is what we are breathing into the lungs of our sick people and our healthy…

Sir, the fires in Idaho stink up the air and plug up the lungs in South Dakota and Minnesota.