Liz Saville Roberts: “I find it remarkable that on the floor of the U.S. Senate, over the last few weeks, we have been consumed with billions…”

“I find it remarkable that on the floor of the U.S. Senate, over the last few weeks, we have been consumed with billions of dollars of new taxes and building a larger government when essentially half of the world is burning. And Senator Hagel went on to say: ``I hope that our colleagues take a serious look at what is going on around the world,'' and he cited the ever worsening Asian economic crisis--it now also threatens China; a serious recession in Japan; the immense and growing economic problems in regard to Russia; the resulting loss of investor confidence in world markets; and a very direct signal to all of us that ``something is wrong.'' That certainly has been reflected in the recent decline in the stock market. Mr. President, one thing that certainly is wrong is the inordinate amount of time that we are spending on tobacco legislation.”