The information that we gather today will help me and the subcommittee assemble the Senate's transportation budget for fiscal year 2004.
I will be working on that along with Representatives Baird, Blumenauer and DeFazio.
I want to ensure that those Federal efforts meet the needs here from this community.
I will help write the Senate's transportation appropriations bill.
I want to ensure that whatever we do, we are meeting the region's highest transportation priorities.
Senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith have submitted a joint request for planning dollars as part of the 2004 transportation appropriations bi...
If done fairly, the assigning of quotas within a fishery can lead to both a safer fishing season and a more sustainable fishery.
I am wondering why the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has devised a plan that they do not have the statutory authority to implemen...
I am not sure Congress wants or should get into the habit of debating individual management plans and making what should be regional decisio...
I share the concerns of Oregon fishers about the assigning of processor quota shares particularly if they are done in a manner that will ben...
Nor should management councils get in the habit of choosing to ignore Congressional instruction.
We are going to do everything we can to find the cures, because there are too many people in this country suffering and hurting, and we owe ...
What we would have said to our citizens here is that we did not make the effort. We did not try.
I think is very unfortunate.
All of those with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and other diseases want to see the Federal Government get behind them.
I am going to do everything I can, as a United States senator, to not foreclose scientific options for progress and opportunity for people l...
I would also put into the record at this point, Mr. Chairman, a piece in The Wall Street Journal, by Virginia Postrel, that talks about why ...
I think it is absolutely critical if we are to unlock the next generation of life-saving medical treatments.
