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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.

Native Americans and Alaskan Natives have a guarantee under law and treaty that we provide health benefits to them and to their families. They are not getting it today. In fact, we are falling dramatically short of the budget required to…

I can't explain why we have chosen--why our Republican colleagues have chosen--to stay on this legislation even though we know there are so many more pressing issues that ought to be taken up. I can't explain their intransigence. I can't…

I was moved by the comments, by the reports, by the emotion I felt as I talked to people whose businesses, whose jobs, are perhaps more precarious than they have been for years. All the statistics bear that out. Consumer confidence is the…

The Conservation Security Program was an important part of the 2002 farm bill. It holds tremendous potential to help our farmers and ranchers clean up the environment. I, too, concur that the Senator from Iowa's statements about the intent…

Alliances have contributed to America's strength since the end of World War II, and Senator Lieberman, like many of us, has watched with concern as those alliances have weakened over the last 2 years. He makes a compelling case on why…

I think it may arguably be the most serious of all nominations which has been presented to the Senate by this administration--the seriousness of knowing so little with so little information having been provided, and with so significant a…