Douglas Alexander

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…

Hurricane Katrina displaced more than 1 million people, at least 20 times more than in any other disaster handled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and 372,000 of those displaced by Katrina are school-aged children, in…

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…

in May, Senator Jeff Bingaman and I, with the encouragement of the Senate Energy Committee Chairman, Pete Domenici, asked the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine the following question: What are the…

I ask the Chair to inform me when I have 1 minute remaining. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will so inform the Senator. ____________________

Senator Cornyn and I are introducing legislation to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act. The legislation would be called the Strengthening American Citizenship Act. Over the next several weeks, this body will be engaged in a debate…

earlier this week the Washington Post reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was making plans to ``reimburse churches and other organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter, food and supplies to survivors of…

my constituents have been asking me, ``Who will President Bush nominate for the second Supreme Court vacancy?'' The question reminds me of a story about a punter from California who went all the way to the University of Alabama to play for…

Please indicate when 2 minutes are remaining. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair is happy to do so. ____________________

I will talk this morning about helping all of Katrina's displaced schoolchildren. Each weekend when I go home to Tennessee, the people who elected me teach me about how we should be doing our jobs in Washington, DC. This is not a lesson…

today in North Carolina, the Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, delivered remarks that announced her intention to create a commission to take a comprehensive look at postsecondary education in the United States. I am here to say…

I would also like to follow my remarks with this information from the American Council on Education that sheds additional light on the comparison of State and Federal spending. In 1995, the State spent $2.16 on higher education for every…

I am here this afternoon to salute the Senator from Missouri for his tireless work on this piece of legislation and to applaud also the Senator from Connecticut who has been a leader for civil rights legislation in this country for a long…

today I rise to honor a true community pillar and a servant, Reverend Thomas Peoples. Reverend Peoples currently serves as pastor of the Wisner First Baptist Church in Louisiana where he has ministered to his congregation, town, and…

I wish to say a word about something important that happened this afternoon that is good news for the men and women in this country who go to college. We have the best system of colleges and universities in the world. I can remember…

when the Senate reconvenes in September, one of the first orders of business will be the Defense authorization bill. During August, I respectfully suggest the President reconsider his opposition to legislation that would set the rules for…

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

the legislation that the Senator from Massachusetts described bears very little resemblance to the legislation I have been working on for the last couple of years with Senators Domenici and Bingaman and that 13 out of the 14 Senate…

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 join the Senators from Missouri and Connecticut in introducing the Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. I do so because I believe that this legislation takes the right approach when dealing with the wrongs of our past. It takes action. It…

late last night the Senate finished work on what I call the Clean Energy Act of 2005. For Americans who watch the legislative process, this is not likely to have been the front-page news, but it is by far one of most important things we…

I urge our colleagues to reject the Sununu-Wyden bill and support the Domenici-Bingaman bill. The provision the Senator seeks to strike is one of the most innovative and one of the crucially important parts of the legislation. As I will…

if Chairman Domenici were here tonight, he would urge our colleagues to oppose the Sununu amendment because it is critical to this clean energy bill. If we want lower natural gas prices, we need new technologies for carbon sequestration…

I applaud the remarks of the Senator from Kansas and his focus on the clean energy aspects of the Domenici- Bingaman bill, which is making significant progress in producing low- carbon and carbon-free energy, transforming the way we…