Aug 19, 2026
You have about 30% of the Scottish population who now see voting SNP as both a habit and an identity.
Douglas Alexander
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by number of sources- This multi-million-pound investment will strengthen UK energy and naval operations’ resilience at a time when the security challenges we face have never been greater.2 sources2026thenational.scot
- By pooling and sharing resources across the country, people living in Scotland benefit from significant additional public spending.2 sources2026thenational.scot
- This is an amendment about the emerging natural gas crisis. It would require the Secretary of Energy, within 6 months from the date of enactment of this Energy bill, to submit a report on natural gas supplies and demand. I offer this amendment because I believe it will help us deal with what I am afraid is an emerging natural gas crisis. If that were to occur, we would be able to protect our jobs, heat or cool our homes at reasonable costs, and clean our air to the standard that we wish. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy, working with our chairman of the full committee, I intend to help schedule hearings as soon as possible on this emerging crisis. This report and these hearings should help us take a hard, honest look at what we do short term and long term. Alan Greenspan is usually a little difficult to interpret when he testifies but he was not difficult to understand on May 21 when he testified before the Joint Economic Committee. This is what he said about natural gas: In contrast, prices for natural gas have increased sharply in response to very tight supplies.…2 sources2003govinfo.gov
- I commend the Senator from Ohio for his comments on the asbestos legislation. This is a time when Americans are concerned about jobs, especially about manufacturing jobs. In the State of Tennessee, as in the State of Ohio, a large number of those jobs are in the automotive industry. About one-third of the manufacturing jobs in Tennessee is in the automotive industry. Making automobiles is a very competitive business. There are companies all over the world making cars. They are putting their assembly plants and their parts suppliers in Ohio and in Tennessee, but they can put them in Germany, South Korea, Mexico, and other places. If costs in manufacturing cars and trucks in America go a little bit higher, then we hear a lot about jobs going overseas. All Senators who are worried about good manufacturing jobs going overseas, jobs in the automotive industry in Ohio and in Tennessee, should be wanting to come to the Senate floor and raise their hand and say, let's get on with this asbestos legislation because it is slowing down our economy, it is going to hurt the companies that produce the jobs and it is keeping the victims from getting a fair recovery. So I congratulate the Senator from Ohio. This helps Americans, and it is a piece of jobs legislation. I hear about it from auto parts suppliers. I hear about it, as I am sure the Senator does, from many manufacturers. I thank him for his leadership.2 sources2004govinfo.gov
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Aug 12, 2026
By pooling and sharing resources across the country, people living in Scotland benefit from significant additional public spending.
Jul 26, 2026
The last 12 days have been extremely challenging for the teams on the ground tackling the wildfire and for those who live and have livelihoods in the area.
Jul 24, 2026
This trade milestone between the US and UK shows the bonds the countries have and the benefits from working closely in partnership.
Jul 17, 2026
By bringing this site back to life, the UK Government is also continuing its commitment to help with local recovery following the closure of Finnart last year.
Jul 17, 2026
This acquisition supports the long-term transformation of HM Naval Base Clyde and supports the kind of high-skilled jobs and economic opportunity that our communities deserve.
Jul 16, 2026
Scotland is crucial to UK defence and this £15.3 billion UK Government funding for some of our most critical military assets will make Britain safer at home, stronger abroad and deliver a defence dividend for Scottish communities.
Jul 16, 2026
This multi-million-pound investment will strengthen UK energy and naval operations’ resilience at a time when the security challenges we face have never been greater.
Jul 15, 2026
I've always believed to be pro-Scottish, you don't need to be anti-English. We should be bigger and more generous than that.
Jul 15, 2026
Be assured, I wish our friends, our neighbours, and our sometimes-rivals well this evening at 8 o'clock.
Jun 23, 2026
I don’t think it's simply that he's shown himself to be a winner, particularly in Makerfield, against Reform and the very dark and dangerous future that I think Reform will (be) for the country.
Feb 13, 2009
Mr. President, here is what we know of the so-called stimulus bill. This bill will give American workers $8 a week in their paychecks in exchange for passing along a $1 trillion debt to our grandchildren. The entire New Deal, in today's…
Feb 12, 2009
the stimulus bill is the subject of discussion. There are some things we know about it and some we don't. We know, for example, it is a massive amount of money, almost $800 billion. These are numbers we throw around. But according to the…
Feb 12, 2009
We have a limited amount of water, a limited amount of money. I note the Senator from Arizona as well as I both voted to give President Obama the money he needed to work on housing and to work on financial institutions, and we may have to…
Feb 12, 2009
As I recall, Senator McCain offered one amendment which almost all of us voted for, which was very targeted and cost about $400 billion, but he also offered another amendment which would have guaranteed that whatever was passed actually be…
Feb 12, 2009
What we are asking is, why would we spend the whole piggybank on a $1 trillion piece of legislation that isn't targeted to create jobs when we have so many other pressing responsibilities for this limited amount of borrowed money--namely…
Feb 12, 2009
Or to put it another way: Don't dump the water out on the street and fertilize the field if you need to throw it on the house.
Feb 12, 2009
I wonder if I might ask the Senator, he has been especially effective as a spokesman for the importance of fixing housing first. Many of us, especially on this side, believe housing got us into this mess and helping housing restart will…
Feb 6, 2009
Ours are: Let's get the spending off the bill that does not create jobs now. My staff finds that only about $135 billion of the $900 billion goes to things that happen in the first couple of years--building roads, improving national parks…
Feb 5, 2009
I cosponsored Senator Wyden and Senator Bennett Healthy Americans Act last year to support a legitimate bipartisan effort that combines "private markets" and "universal access." I am willing to do so again this year, because health care…
Feb 5, 2009
this morning a number of us went to the National Prayer Breakfast--I saw the Senator from North Carolina there--which is always a wonderful event. It was especially a good event today because our new President was there for the first time…
Feb 4, 2009
Just to make sure it is clear, sometimes we confuse tax deduction and tax credit. This is a $15,000 tax credit. That means cash money, real money, that you can, instead of paying it to the IRS, put in your pocket.
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