the legislation that Senator Lott and I are proposing does three things. It does make FEMA independent again. And it does give the director of FEMA direct authority to report to the president. But it also puts in qualifications and…

We believe that then we have a better chance to, you know, really put it back in the shape it was in the '90s and earlier, when both of us had previous experiences.

We're going to try to convince our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. We know that there is resistance to this. But I don't think we can wait.

Whoever coined the phrase that life is unfair must have had the Reeve family in mind, but these two people faced adversity with unflinching courage.

I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

While many of us may be blessed to live a longer life than he did, few us -- few of us -- few of us will ever live a better one.

If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

And it will be struck down as unconstitutional at each and every appellate court level, up to the point that the Supreme Court would be the only court left to consider hearing it.

I could second Senator Burr's request that we look for a way to recapture funds that are not used.

I think we also have to take into account the impact on Medicaid--because certainly the bulk of the medical costs in New York are paid for by Medicaid.

I certainly welcome your offer to work with you, because I think that is what all of us are striving for.

I also hope that we could study carefully the support services.

I hope, too, that we do not try to expand the reach of the CARE Act by removing resources from areas which have historically been hardest hit by the domestic AIDS epidemic.

Although New York only has 7 percent of the Nation's population, it has 17 percent of the Nation's AIDS cases.

Our future of this coast depends on the government getting in their mind that what we have is not sufficient. We need to build a better mousetrap.

This temporary assistance was basically built around your normal hurricane situation. We don't have a normal hurricane situation.

And it will be struck down as unconstitutional at each and every appellate court level, up to the point that the Supreme Court would be the only court left to consider hearing it.

Doing so will be the broadest, direct attack on Roe v. Wade that we've seen to date.