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H.R. 4417, the Tygart Dam Project Hydroelectric License Extension Bill, extends the time in the hydroelectric license to start construction on the project until December 31, 2007. This is another project that has experienced delays. In…

Senator Lincoln makes a good point. While I support the Finance Committee's goal of encouraging accountability and incentivizing the collection of Medicare bad debt by skilled nursing facilities, I do see the need to differentiate between…

So the fact that the fraud occurred in an arena in which derivatives were being utilized does not mean that the derivatives caused the fraud or that there was anything with regard to derivatives regulations that would have changed it, am I…

We had the same point under Enron, if I remember correctly. When we ultimately got into the bottom of it, it was not even the derivatives which were at issue, although they were blamed.

As the gentleman knows, the State of Idaho has an agreement with the United States Department of Energy, enforceable by the courts, that prohibits commercial spent nuclear fuel from coming into the Idaho National Laboratory for storage…

I was absolutely astounded at the fact that they thought that they could violate my Fourth Amendment rights, violate my privacy, violate my body because of some secret law.

I think the only thing that I've ever terrorized are liberals.

I commend President Bush on his recent trip to Canada and efforts to build on our strong relations with our neighbor to the north. Canada is our Nation's largest trading partner and one of our closest allies, and this relationship must…

I do want to pose one question for you to consider either during your testimony or perhaps in follow up if it does not come up there.

I would tell you that if there is that much consideration, if there is that much concern on this bill as a whole, then maybe we ought to take the bill back to committee and reconsider the bill itself rather than just the amendment. There…

But getting to the issue that we are debating here on the Yellowstone National Park, not too long ago, perhaps far too long ago for certain people to recall, someone once said, ``and they sent hither swarms of agents to harass our people…

I encourage us to support the efforts to make certain these things will move forward and particularly when we bring this amendment that we were not allowed to bring this morning, we encourage the entire Senate to support it to help make…

My biggest concern right now is our budget deficit and the trade deficits that we are facing

Zero were filibustered this year, and this year four have been successfully filibustered, and what is it, five, six, or seven more are scheduled to be filibustered?

Isn't it also true that out of the last 11 Presidents--and I think we used 11 Presidents because it was 1949 when the filibuster became possible--not one of their nominees, until today, until this Congress, not one of the President's…

It is my understanding that 2,300 nominations have come to the floor since the filibuster was possible.

Tomorrow is not too soon. And I know, looking at Idaho, where we have the overgrowth, where we have high unemployment, all these counties that I talked about where that 1910 fire went up, I have six counties that run right up through that…

Let me just go ahead and make one more analogy for anybody that may be watching this. In the old days I know when I was growing up and we raked the leaves and everything in the fall of the year, we would rake them up into a pile; and if we…