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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…
this morning, I want to take a few minutes to talk about an amendment that was adopted yesterday. It was sponsored by the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Voinovich. The amendment is about the 3,361 Presidential appointees and how they are…
I take a few minutes in honor of the 40th anniversary of what we call the Land and Water Conservation Fund, or the LWCF in this country. Forty years ago, in September of 1964, President Johnson signed legislation establishing the fund. It…
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…
it is my pleasure to co-sponsor, the Higher Education Access, Affordability and Opportunity Act being introduced to day by Senator Enzi. This legislation is an issue of great concern to Senators and our constituents: job loss. There is…
the purpose of my remarks today is to suggest a way to come to a solution in the debate we have been having as to what extent Congress should interfere with State and local regulations and taxation of high-speed Internet access. In April…
I simply wish to join our leaders today in remembrance of the tragic events of September 11. As I remember those events, I remember more how clearly our country pulled together in response. September 11 is one of our worst days but it…
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…
I believe the proposed United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement is a good free-trade agreement. I intend to vote for it. I believe it will strengthen our economy. I believe it will create more jobs in the United States and it will also…
today, Senator Landrieu and I are introducing the Americans Outdoors Act of 2004, bipartisan legislation that will provide nearly $1.5 billion annually to help Americans in every State enjoy the great American outdoors. The Americans…
Just at the time when we were starting to celebrate the beginning of a solution to a north-south conflict which has gone on for years and years, suddenly we are hit, literally in the face, with this terrible genocide in the western part 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…
A few years ago when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, he attended one of the many press dinners which are held. I think it was the gridiron dinner. I think it is well known that maybe 90 percent of the press corps in…
I recently received an invitation to an annual reunion of Tennessee veterans who served together in the 236th Combat Engineers Battalion in Burma, India and China during World War II. Veterans of the 236th have been getting together every…
A half century after Brown v. Board of Education, education on equal terms still eludes too many African-American schoolchildren. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has called America's persistent racial achievement gap 'the civil rights…
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…
Yesterday Secretary Abraham of the Department of Energy announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory in my home State of Tennessee was selected the winner of the Department of Energy's competition to develop a leadership class…
I wish to talk about songwriters. Italy has its art, and California and Oregon have fine wine, Hollywood has movies, Dalton, GA, has carpets, and Nashville has songwriters. There are a great many beautiful songs that come from Nashville…
I have three topics I wish to speak about today. The first is about Marvin Runyon. Marvin Runyon is a man known to almost all Tennesseans. He died last night. He had a remarkable career. Marvin Runyon and his Nissan team brought the…
this proposal violates the Budget Act. It breaks our promise. While it has distinguished support among my colleagues, it is a political trick because it means lower taxes here and higher taxes there. I suggest that my colleagues might go…
Four years is better than permanent, and I thank the Senator for that. But 4 years is a long time. We don't need more than 15 months or 2 years for the Commerce Committee and the Congress to look at this in a comprehensive way. What I am…
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 wish to make two points to the Senator from Oregon who has worked hard on this legislation from the very beginning. He is an original cosponsor. No. 1, he is right about the 1998 definition. It isn't high-speed Internet access. There is…
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