Douglas Alexander

The March of Dimes is our partner, a strong advocate for the PREEMIE bill. It is leading the prematurity campaign. It will sponsor a symposium on prematurity research here in Washington, DC, on November 21 and 22.

It would be my purpose to introduce an amendment that would increase funding for title I to the level President Bush has recommended. I propose that we set aside the pending amendment so that I may introduce that amendment. Perhaps we…

I join the majority leader. The President has made a wise decision. I respectfully say, in choosing Sandy Mattice, by scholarship, by experience, by integrity, by background he should be an excellent judge. I should say, also, that he…

Certainly. The bill creates one-time only emergency aid for the 2005-2006 school year. The bill explicitly states that the funds provided can only be used for expenses incurred during the current school year, and the entire bill sunsets on…

As you know, Hurricane Katrina had a devastating and unprecedented impact on students and schools not only in the disaster areas, but across the country. There are over 45,000 displaced students enrolled in Texas schools and over 3,900…

Would it be possible to get 3 or 4 minutes following the Senator's remarks before the discussion begins?

I inform the chairman I would like to speak for 4 minutes on the Boy Scout amendment discussed, if time is available after other Senators speak on the underlying bill.

I ask the Senator from New Mexico if I may reserve my remaining time for just before the vote, and he also has a minute at that time. I ask unanimous consent to do that.

I will ask the Senator from Ohio a question. I walked in about two-thirds of the way through his remarks. Do I understand that this is legislation that helps reduce sulfur in the air by retrofitting diesel engines so they comply with the…

That is true. In the case of wind power, it was suggested to the Senators in the early nineties, give us a wind power production credit for a few years and then it goes away. If it goes away and it costs more, the ratepayers will end up…

I see my friend from Oregon here. I ask unanimous consent to speak a little bit longer than 10 minutes if that would not inconvenience him, or would he like to go?

I was not surprised by that--I think that is the way it ought to be--but I was impressed by that.

The people are entitled to two things. One is to have their constitutional and Federal rights enforced in the Federal courts. This will continue under this legislation. But they are also entitled to have democratically elected leaders that…

I believe the Senator from Arizona and others did an excellent job of implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that drivers' licenses and other personal identification documents be upgraded so we can prevent terrorists from using…

I am one who votes for more drilling for oil and gas because I don't like us relying so much on the Middle East for it, so I vote for that. But I don't know why we cannot agree that, if we have an environmental burden on the one hand, we…

It is now at the forefront of American consciousness. And the question before us in the Presidential race is which one of these men is the best prepared to be Commander in Chief to lead us into the future? My hope is the media coverage…

I believe this is an impressive report. It is an impressive committee. It has had impressive leadership, and it certainly will command my attention as one Senator. I intend to read it all the way through, and I intend to take seriously the…

It has been 1,167 days since President Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time, the national debt has increased by $1,663,467,070,131.85. According to the Web site for the Bureau of…

The men and women of the 278th are going across the ocean to fight for us so we can live safely at home. They are doing that the same way militiamen in Tennessee did more than 200 years ago, men who went across the mountains to fight for…

I believe it is time in this country to recognize we need to give poor and middle-income parents more of the same choices of educational opportunities wealthier families have, that we may be able to do this without harming our public…

The other thing is, high-speed Internet access really had not arrived 5 or 6 years ago. It has arrived today. It is the fastest-growing technology. If we make a mistake on the telephone section of this bill, we will drive a Mack truck…

I suggest that the 1998 definition is a better definition than the one in the latest McCain proposal. The best definition is in the Alexander-Carper compromise in December, but in the interest of trying to get to a result, I could vote for…

In the 1960s? How long was civil rights legislation held up in this very body by the filibuster? What was it that caused the cloture rules to be changed so now it takes 60 to override instead of 67? It was the Nation's anger about the…

I am trying to think back to the 1950s and the 1960s. How many rights of African Americans in the South were protected by the filibuster in the 1950s?

I wonder if the chairman remembers--I have heard a lot of talk tonight about what a great protection of minority rights the filibuster is.