Douglas Alexander

That is correct. I thank the Senator from Oklahoma. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Oklahoma yield time?

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.

Do I understand I have 15 minutes? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. The Senator has 15 minutes. Amendment No. 961

would you advise me when I have consumed 7 minutes? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We will.

I have no objection, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

this gives me a chance to clear up a couple of points. I say to my friend from New Mexico, the United Nations isn't picking any of these sites. We picked 20 of these sites in the United States that we recommended to the world be designated…

The answer to the Senator is the reason we are doing this is that he is advocating a national windmill policy instead of a national energy policy, which has spent billions on windmills. We ought not subsidize the destruction of our…

I have been yielded 4 minutes of Senator Bingaman's time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

we are talking today about whether to find out how much natural gas we have offshore. Let me try to put that in personal terms. In the mountains of east Tennessee, we have a company, Tennessee Eastman. Mr. President, 10,000, 12,000 jobs…

I salute today the students who participated in the National History Day national contest that was held last week at the University of Maryland. More than 700,000 students in grades 6 through 12 from all over the country chose topics…

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…

in case the President may be wondering, and I asked consent about this, these are 7,000 regulations. We have 6,000 autonomous institutions of higher education in the United States, colleges and universities. The Presiding Officer comes…

So he has the longest lineage--his family does, I believe--of anyone in the territory we now call the United States of America. He has made a terrific contribution on energy. I appreciate his remarks. We have come a long way in our work on…

when I go home on the Fourth of July and my constituents ask what I did about high natural gas prices, high gasoline prices, about our competition with China and Japan and India to keep our jobs, I am going to tell them I voted no on the…

I am tempted to ask why we should have to raise electric rates in Tennessee to build windmills in North Dakota, even as much as they like them. I would prefer to send every single one of these gigantic public nuisances to North Dakota if…

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…

this past February, I introduced the resolution celebrating Black History Month that follows these remarks. Thirty five other Senators have joined me in this effort. I offered this resolution in the spirit of my late friend Alex Haley, who…

in order to protect our Nation's most scenic areas, Senator Warner, the senior Senator from Virginia, and I are today introducing a revised version of the Environmentally Responsible Windpower Act of 2005. It will be introduced in the…

I take a few minutes to speak about natural gas prices, the prices at the pump, blue-collar workers, farmers, and homeowners. The reason I do that is because the Senate Energy Committee earlier today did a good piece of work that I hope…

I cosponsor 1107, the Head Start Improvements for School Readiness Act, a bill to reauthorize Head Start. I join my colleagues Senators Enzi, Kennedy, and Dodd in support of this legislation. I would like to see Head Start expanded and…

the matter of giving the President an up-or-down vote on his judicial nominees or, more accurately, giving the country an opportunity for any President to have what every President has always had, a chance for the full Senate to have an…

I am here today to introduce, along with the Senator from Virginia, Mr. Warner, the Environmentally Responsible Wind Power Act of 2005. The legislation that Senator Warner and I offer provides for local authorities to be notified and have…

I am here to talk about the supplemental appropriations bill. While the Senator from North Dakota is here--he is one of the best speakers in the Senate. He can take a story, tell it, and be clear about what he is saying. He has spoken…

I appreciate my friend's point. May I make my remarks now? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized.

I have spoken here previously about the contribution that one of our closest allies, Australia, has made to support our efforts in Iraq and in the ongoing war against terror. At a time when other members of the international coalition in…