Julian Bond

I want my colleagues to know I had a tremendous staff working with me, Trevor Blackann, Ellen Stein, Heideh Shahmoradi, Kent Van Landuyt, and John Stoody. It was a major effort. I think we have crafted a good bill. This was a group effort…

I suggest that my colleague ask the Commerce Committee chairman by how much his title exceeds the budget resolution. I believe our number is at $255 billion. I want to help out the Commerce Committee by getting a waiver for what I…

The original proposal in the bill agreed on by the budget conference committee between the House and the Senate was below the Senate number. It came in at $231 billion. The Finance Committee has fulfilled its obligation to raise enough…

I ask that question because some people talked about a 3- or 4-month extension. I wonder if my colleague agrees that that simply would miss an entire season, even in Missouri, where our weather may not be quite as harsh but we would not be…

Is it the understanding of my colleague that the major projects that would generate the kind of work that is needed to improve our Nation's infrastructure, the major highway and bridge projects, cannot be undertaken on a 1-year extension…

Does the Senator realize all the rest of the Intelligence Committee is in S-407 receiving a 300-page report compiled over 8 months by the entire staff of the Intelligence Committee, after over a couple of hundred interviews and reviewing…

I was wondering if it is correct that the original highway bill really didn't have any formulas; it was what one would have to call pork because it had various projects in it. It was an effort by the Congress to outline where money is…

I intended this provision to apply only to the adoption or enforcement of standards or other requirements relating to "new" engines, not existing engines or "in-use" engines. Also, I have heard from other colleagues and stakeholders…

Yes, I believe the entire provision, including subsection (c), should apply to adoption or enforcement of standards or other requirements relating only to nonroad engines.

I share and strongly support the Senator's view that NASA should continue to work with universities and industry on NASA-related scientific research.

We face a very tough conference with the House with our tight allocation and other competing funding priority areas such as veterans' health care, affordable housing, and other science and space programs. Nevertheless, I will look at this…

I, too, have heard about the importance of the research infrastructure program and I want to assure the Senator that we have sought to provide sufficient funding to cover existing commitments and states that are currently under review.

This is something we need to do throughout the system, and we need to have a better integration of the health care facilities of the active military and the Veterans Affairs. I commend the Senators from Illinois and hope this model can be…

I believe we can accept this amendment. This is an increase, obviously. Our budget has been short in every area. We share the concern of the author of this amendment in ensuring EPA enforcement is strong enough. There is no objection on…

No one will be completely happy with this bill, but ultimately the decisions the distinguished ranking member, Senator Mikulski, and I have made with our committee have been the right ones, and the American taxpayers should be happy since…

I urge our colleagues to remember that the battle of the Intelligence Committee is to win the war against terrorism, not to win the White House.

I am taken with the world view and the view of the peace by the Senator from Delaware, but when he talks about the United Nations, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wonder if he recalls this discussion with the Secretary of…

It is important, as I hope the Senator from Kansas and I have pointed out, that we must do something on a national basis. Missouri patients cannot continue to lose their trusted doctors to the State of Kansas. We cannot see people driven…

The Wall Street Journal says: As federalists, we think this wave of state reform is probably better than a single national law. Unlike class actions, which damage commerce nationwide, medical liability affects health care in individual…

Let me express my sincere thanks to my good friend from the Dakotas, and thank him for the work he has done on the Budget Committee as the ranking member. I thank my friend from Oklahoma, the chairman of the Budget Committee, as we are…

I simply ask the question, as a Senator, would you ever consent to have confidential memoranda prepared for you by a lawyer who happened to be in your employ, who is subsequently nominated for a judicial position--would you ever consent to…

I will ask the question of the Senator from Utah, who happens to be in the line of sight of the Chair, both of whom I respect. I will focus the question to the Senator from Utah. Do you share the concern that should a clerk, assistant…

Is it not true, then, that perhaps the best judge of the legal capabilities of a law clerk, Assistant Solicitor General, or assistant attorney would be those for whom that clerk or assistant worked?

Is it the experience and knowledge of the distinguished chairman of the committee that the legal scholarship may be shown by these rulings, by these drafts, but they do not in any way reflect, necessarily, the views of the clerk or the…

I ask the Senator from Utah, who has experience with the entire judicial process. As one who has served as a law clerk, I ask is it not commonplace for law clerks, for assistants, to write memoranda that do not necessarily reflect their…