I would like to thank Senators Harkin and Enzi for convening today's hearing on such an important issue affecting millions of American patients and caregivers.

This report was authorized by bipartisan legislation entitled the National Pain Care Policy Act which I co-authored.

I think we do need to modify our tax system. I do not think there is any question about it.

I just want you to know that you have inherited a very difficult job in one of the toughest times in history.

There are no entitlement reforms being offered by this administration.

Well, I think we are over-taxed now. I do not want to raise revenues.

Are you telling me the deficit is going to go down? I do not believe that.

I agree with that.

We want to help them. I have spent 36 years here trying to help people.

I wish you would work a little less hard on some of these crazy ideas that this administration has.

Mr. President, for some time now Americans have suspected that this administration has lost touch with the American people. John Meacham, the former editor of Newsweek and a fan of the President, explained this detachment by explaining…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be permitted to speak and give my remarks in full. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Utah. ____________________

I understand that -- the battles we, as conservatives, must fight because I have been on the front lines.

I understand that the battles that we as conservatives must fight, because I have been on the front lines.

I fought against long odds in a deep blue state, but I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

Mr. Speaker, I'm here today to be a voice for the millions of women and men who are celebrating the recent decision by the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding requiring all businesses and corporations to provide birth control…

I've got to talk about the food stamp President a little bit--and talking about how we ought to stop spending. Well, this in fact accomplishes that purpose. By overstating the budget risk, the accounting risk that's already accounted for…

no state should be forced to accept the Nation's nuclear waste against its will.