Madam President, I believe there is a vote due at this hour, is there not? I ask for the yeas and nays with respect to the Hillman nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second…

Madam President, is this controlled time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, there is 6\1/2\ minutes.

I thank my colleague for his courtesy. I am perfectly happy to wait and listen to his comments. We have a sort of Alphonse and Gaston thing going back and forth. Madam President, I thank Chairman Leahy for his work on the Judiciary…

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I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.

Leaders cannot lead if they are hungry. Inventors cannot invent if they are homeless.

I think that is one of the reasons why I am very interested in programs that would encourage the non-residential fathers of these children to stay involved.

That is my point as well. Thank you.

The United States must have a strong social safety net, and it is not just for the sake of having one.

Can you comment on what these 'other' activities are and what challenges for policymakers are presented by having so much of the TANF expenditures unknown?

I would like you to comment on that statistic. And also, do you believe it was the intention of members of Congress and President Clinton that, in over a decade and a half since welfare reform, more than half the welfare caseload would be…

Our Nation is only as great as the least among us.

I think there are issues here. And we could do something at the Federal level to do something about these work requirements.

the change in the law was to end welfare as we know it.

But at least, even if they are under-employed, as Dr. Haskins points out, they have a chance to get the earned income tax credit.

Final point. Let me ask you about the much-maligned stimulus bill. One of the biggest parts of that... was to help out the States with Medicaid and also education.