I think we need as a body to think very, very carefully about do we want reconciliation to be used in that way.
our forefathers intended the Senate to be the cooling saucer.
I was honored to vote affirmatively on the confirmation of Senator Salazar. I think he is going to be a great Secretary of the Interior.
the First Americans should not have second class health care or second class education or second class housing.
We know the issues out there, we know how to address them and deal with them if we commit the resources and our time and our dedication.
I have used the word shameful, that in three of the last four years, I believe, we have not even had an Assistant Secretary of Indian Affair...
We have made promises, we have signed the line in treaty agreements, and we have trust responsibilities.
Sense of the Senate really became absurd... it is purely messaging, and it is a giant waste of time.
Budget resolutions have become messaging instruments, not budgeting instruments.
Senator Byrd, a member of this Committee and somebody who has forgotten more about the rules than most of us know.
I am not going to be at all interested in something that truncates or reduces the rights of the minority.
the minority is not going to be willing to neutralize or significantly adjust its rights here if it would affect the ability to make our poi...
Can we improve the process? Can we make it better?
I have no interest in restricting the rights of the minority.
I also want to thank Senators Dorgan and Bennett who've been at the forefront, working hard to expand an enhanced loan guarantees.
Rather than say, 'no such project has yet been built,' people should instead recognize that such projects are imminent and should help them ...
I applaud your strong, bipartisan leadership along with that of Senator Murkowski in identifying the need for systemic change.
I think we do have a real challenge if so many new Senators do not know the history here.
