Douglas Alexander

May I ask the chairman, did he not, as Attorney General of Alabama, advise the local district attorneys they could not enforce a law passed by the Alabama State legislature----

What we are saying in our amendment is if the Senator from Delaware or I hook up a computer to the Internet, our amendment would prohibit State and local governments from taxing that event; isn't that right?

First is, no taxation of Internet access. I have yet to run into a Senator who really wants to tax Internet access. Virtually all of us are willing to keep State and local governments from taxing Internet access. I am a little bit of a…

I think it is a part of the tradition of the Senate that it be the saucer in which the coffee cools. What we have found over the last several days is, as our colleagues on both sides of the aisle have looked at this unfunded Federal…

I believe I heard him say that the attorney general of Alabama wrote a letter to every school district in Alabama, every superintendent and every school, telling them that the football coach could not lead a prayer before the football…

Again, thoroughly unpopular. Alabama is interested in football and Alabama is interested in prayer, and for a public official to write every school and tell them they cannot pray before a football game is not an easy thing to do, even if…

I am going to just guess, having lived a long time in a State that borders Alabama, that it is higher than that in Alabama. If I understood the Senator from Alabama correctly, here is the attorney general of Alabama, who may also agree…

Then, Mr. President, I believe the Senator from Alabama talked about the situation going on there today where the chief judge is embroiled in a great controversy over whether the Ten Commandments have to be taken out of the courtroom. I…

As I was listening to the Senator from Alabama, and maybe he will correct me if I have this wrong, but we are talking about Alabama, this is not Brooklyn, NY, we are talking about; right? And we are talking about the attorney general of…

It has been 881 days since President Bush and his party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time, the national debt has increased by $1,174,114,828,749.14. According to the Web site for the Bureau of Public Debt at…

I believe Tony Blair taught us a lot about the world. I think he taught us more about ourselves. His speech was historic, but it will be remembered more because it reminded us of what it means to be an American. The assistant Democratic…

I hope the universities, the nonprofit organizations, and the State educational institutions will begin to prepare for that. They might look at the Governors' Schools across this country in many States as models. At a time when the United…

We should not pass an Energy bill that does not put conservation up on the platform along with our encouragement of nuclear power, oil exploration, and hydrogen fuel cell; all of that is important. And this amendment by the Senator and…

I want to join in the praise for the Senator from North Carolina. She reminds us today of what an advantage it is to have someone of such experience serving in our so-called freshman class. She has been a pioneer during her whole career…

In Missouri, instead of $3 million, there would be $7.7 million. In Washington State, there is $3 million for neighborhood parks under the President's proposal; this would raise it to $8.3 million. I call to this body's attention two parts…

If the Senator would agree that all of those distinguished men and women with no prior judicial experience went on to become distinguished members of the U.S. Supreme Court, then can the Senator help us understand why the Members of the…

Is the Senator aware that Felix Frankfurter and Earl Warren and Byron White and Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist and Stephen Breyer and Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all had no prior…