Liz Saville Roberts

The select committee is to complement--complement, by coordination and prioritization--the work of other committees in the Senate on homeland security and terrorism. Other committee jurisdiction is not removed by this proposal. I cannot…

I have discussed this with the minority leader. I gave a similar plan, and I said it is not so much whether it is this plan or that plan, we must have a single select committee. We thought about a standing committee, and we said: No, that…

The second point, which will be inserted in the Record following my remarks, the select committee would coordinate and prioritize the Federal initiatives toward genuine homeland security and preventing incidents of terrorism. It would have…

I rise in support of S. 1438, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2002. As the ranking Republican on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, I would like to thank subcommittee Chairman Landrieu and her staff…

This letter followed 3 days of hearings in which bipartisan Members of Congress asked detailed questions of some 46 Federal agencies. Senators Stevens, Warner, Shelby, Gregg, and Roberts offered this letter as a blueprint from which to…

there is a sigh of relief all throughout farm country in regard to passage of this emergency assistance. We avoided a partisan train wreck, losing the money, taking the money from next year's farm bill, and or next year's emergency…

on Wednesday, Kansans paid their final respects to Governor Finney and I join with my colleague Senator Brownback in expressing our state's condolences to the Finney family. While Senate business kept me from attending her funeral in…

We stand in the midst of an amazing period of history. Not since the industrial revolution has society witnessed such an explosion of technological advancements. The rise of the Internet yields volumes of information to anyone at anytime…

here is the issue: The ability of States to determine what is best for themselves. That is the issue. Sure, the issue is the Patients' Bill of Rights. But if Kansas or Nebraska or Maine or Massachusetts or Louisiana or Connecticut--as I…

Today, even as I speak, the members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee are in the process of marking up the BEST bill. The BEST bill is an acronym describing an effort to try to put together the reauthorization of the…

I rise today once again to introduce legislation to enhance trade provisions from Title Nine of the fiscal year 2001 agriculture appropriations bill. The legislation that I join with my colleagues to introduce today, the Cuba Food &…

I talked to a respected and veteran newspaper editorialist of the Washington Post, Bob Kaiser, just a couple days ago. He said: Pat, you have been around here quite a while. Is this possible? 50/50, will it work in the Senate? Can you…

We are trapped in a death spiral. I do not think one could make it any more plain than that. We are trapped in a death spiral. The requirement to maintain our aging equipment is costing us more each year in repair costs, down time, and…

I commend his remarks to all Senators and more especially all staff in both the House and Senate. It captures that special relationship--the analogy might be--my boss, right or wrong--my boss. In the case of Herb Bateman and Dave Scandling…

Here is principle No. 2 that the distinguished Senator and I have agreed upon. The President and the Congress need to, first, find more and better ways to increase communications with the American public. We both have talked about this at…

I commend my good friend for his commonsense approach to our country's future. I thank him. I applaud him for his leadership. He has begun what I think is a trail-blazing initiative. This has been, as he has indicated, a year-long…

Principle No. 6: In the post-cold-war world, the U.S. should adopt a policy of realistic restraint with respect to the use of U.S. military force in situations other than those involving the defense of vital national interests. In all…

Let's try principle No. 4. We are the only global superpower, and in order to avoid stimulating the creation of a hostile coalition of other nations, the United States should, and can afford to, forego unilateralist actions, except where…

I see our future prosperity in the Americas, not in the Far East. . . . Forty-six percent of our exports flow within the Americas, 28 percent to the Far East and 26 percent to Europe. I see the balance shifting even more to the Americas…

late in the afternoon of this coming Thursday, the U.S. Marine Corps will conduct a retirement ceremony at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, VA. It would not be too surprising for all who know the honoree, if those legendary…

Emotional status? I see that patients must answer questions about their feelings. Have they ever been depressed? Have they ever had trouble sleeping? Have they ever attempted suicide? In some cases, that might be necessary, but do we…

I strongly oppose that effort. This seems manifestly a very wrong approach to what may be a very real problem. The alternative offered in this proposal of having the Nation's most esteemed jurists turn to the lecture circuit to supplement…

Not only do I think this would be a very dramatic step backwards for us in terms of the public's perception of integrity of its Government, but I think it would be terribly unfair to the most conscientious Judges and Justices. Because a…

The home health care agencies in my State--in fact, since January of about 2 years ago, 68 Medicare-certified agencies in Kansas have closed their doors, more than a 25-percent drop, more than a quarter drop. These were not the…

Our health care providers spend an awful lot of time traveling from one patient's home to another. What happens is that the first patient may be located many miles away from the next patient. It requires the home health care nurse to work…