No, it does no such thing, but as we well remember, in New York City, where striking by public employees is prohibited, transit workers struck anyway because they collectively bargained and they didn't like the result. The point I make to…

When I was Governor of Tennessee a few years ago, I remember the debate we had about whether public safety employees--firefighters, police, and others--should be allowed to collectively bargain in our State. The arguments we considered…

Tennesseans like our sports teams, whether it is the Lady Vols, or the Memphis Tigers, or Bruce Pearl's team from Knoxville. But John Calipari or Pat Summitt or Bruce Pearl wouldn't think of sending any of our teams into a big game with…

I hope that within the next few weeks, a bipartisan group of us from the Congress could meet with the National Academies and see what concrete proposals we might offer the new President and the new Congress, and that we complete that work…

in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt summoned a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to the White House. He outlined with them a secret plan to win World War II. At the conclusion of the briefing, the President asked Kenneth…

This week I am introducing legislation that will make it possible for an American taxpayer to file his or her tax return on one page, a one-page optional flat tax on individuals and businesses at the rate of 19 percent for the first two…

Mr. President, I rise in favor of the Alexander-Kyl amendment No. 4429, which we hope is a helpful amendment to the Ensign-Cantwell amendment. Let me try to say this in two different ways. If you care about climate change, here is what our…

let me emphasize this point. No. 1, the Alexander-Kyl amendment has more certainty. It extends the production tax credit from 1 year to 2 for all these. Second, the distinguished Senator from Washington mentioned solar power. Solar asked…

Clean renewable energy is very important for our country. I have a chart here which lists the sources of renewable electricity qualified to receive the production tax credit. This production tax credit is the subject, in part, of the…

I have even better news. Last night, the University of Tennessee Lady Vols won their eighth NCAA women's basketball championship. They defeated an extraordinarily good Stanford team. The Tennessee team has very good players. The Senator…

today General Petraeus comes to the Senate. I suggest that we listen to the General. When he reported to the Senate last September, some Senators were unwilling to listen. One even said that she thought that in order to believe the reports…

I believe the amendment I offer on behalf of the Senator from Arizona, Mr. Kyl, and myself would improve the amendment offered by the Senator from Nevada and the Senator from Washington. As I listened to them talking, their concern is for…

there is much talk about change. I know one opportunity for real change that would affect nearly 7,000 young Americans every schoolday--5 students every minute. Gang violence? Drugs? No, neither of those. This is less flashy, but as…

I noticed the Senator from Texas was talking about all of those people recently moving to Texas. There was a point in our history in this country when half of Tennessee moved to Texas. In fact, almost every Texan you find has a Tennessee…

I admire the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts and I plan to vote for it, but there is not so much admiration for my amendment by some Senators. I wish to have a rollcall vote on it because I think it is time it became the law…

in the 1990s, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a prominent Democrat, a great friend of the Senator from Massachusetts, wrote a book about the ``Disuniting of America.'' He deplored the balkanization of our country. The Equal Employment Opportunity…

At the end of title III, add the following: SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTION. (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the…

there are only 2 ways to bring down the price of $3.50 gasoline and to keep electricity from going up. One is to reduce demand and one is to increase supply. The Senator from Florida and I agree on our amendments on several provisions, but…

my amendment limits the encouragement of the development of natural gas resources beneath the Outer Continental Shelf to the coastline, off the coastline of the State of Virginia. Madam President, the estimates are that this year 400…

the Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Bingaman, has been tireless in helping to create the America COMPETES Act, which passed unanimously here. But even more important than that, he did not walk away from it once it became law. He has attended…

we are talking this week about the Federal budget. Senator Gregg, Senator Grassley, and others have pointed out, with appropriate response from the Senator from North Dakota, that in our belief we will wreck the Federal budget by raising…

the great danger with these conversations about ``let's get the rich'' is, we got 115 of them, I think, with the so-called AMT tax. Today it traps, according to the Senator from New Hampshire, 20 million Americans. That seems to be the way…

I have some vague memory in my mind that in the late 1960s, or some time in that time period, a millionaire's tax was proposed. I am wondering if the Senator from New Hampshire remembers that and remembers how many millionaires it was to…

So again, the question is whether we will adopt the Democratic budget which would raise taxes, raise spending, raise debt, and wreck the Federal budget or whether we will adopt the Republican pro-growth plan. Will we make room for the…

I first commend the Senators from North Dakota and Iowa for the way they conduct this debate. This is always a model for how the Senate ought to work. Sometimes toward the end of the debate it is not but at least at the beginning it is…