Bill Clinton

That is not the conclusion reached by the Democratic Senators, nor by the Hispanic Caucus, nor by many who have followed this nomination closely--to ask a man of his record before the Supreme Court whether he had an opinion about any…

Indeed. But he is not representing his clients before the Judiciary Committee. He stands there as Miguel Estrada for a potential lifetime appointment to the second highest court in the land. Therefore, he can no longer speak for clients…

I think that is a very dangerous precedent, and I do hope that Americans understand this: That the Constitution does not change from administration to administration. The advise and consent role stays there for the Senate to exercise. If…

I have reviewed a number of them. I certainly am no expert on the cases, but I concede the point to the chairman that Mr. Estrada has argued cases on behalf of clients whose positions he was advocating and has done so extremely well.

The teaching hospitals will certainly help defray some of the increasing costs that are not going to be taken care of otherwise.

Health care is a primary provider of jobs in every State that I know of and certainly in the cities across the country. Our hospitals, nursing homes, home health programs, physicians offices are all providing employment. That is why it was…

Clearly, if we do not act, doctors are going to start pulling out of Medicare in a month. Then we are going to have the rapid unraveling of the system, which we all fear. It is going to be much harder to put it together under the…

Isn't it ironic that we stand here debating a homeland security bill which has no money for first responders, and the only money that was in there they have now taken out? There is not a single penny that is going to the firefighters, the…

We have the same language that was used in the first Bush recession. Now we are in the second Bush recession. We are using the same language. It worked then.

The answer is the bill does not provide for those first coming into the system 26 weeks. It does provide an additional 13 weeks so that those who have exhausted their first 13 weeks can have 26 weeks.

The Senator is correct, we had a jobless recovery in the early 1990s, and a jobless recovery in the early part of this new century. In the early jobless recovery of the early 1990s, the first President Bush extended unemployment benefits…

I express my appreciation, and I know the appreciation of many of our colleagues, for the Chair's steadfast defense of the Constitution and for his reminder to constant all of us, that the Senate, being the premier deliberative body in the…

Is it further correct that among those items the Senator has reviewed, studied, and analyzed for the validity of their claims and the importance of their priorities, was a recognition we had some additional work to do because of the…

Further to that point, I believe it is the fact, is it not, that in the course of examining the many needs which our country has, in order to deal with the vulnerabilities we currently experience, the Senator has come up with a number of…

Is it further the case that in taking testimony and receiving evidence, the Senator has helped to create a better understanding of what the needs are that we should be meeting as we attempt to prepare our country for the unfortunate but…

This year has been the worst year in memory for many specialty crop farmers. In New York's Hudson Valley region, losses on specialty fruit crops total $65 million for 2002 alone. For the communities and the fruit growers in the region…

These weather conditions have wreaked havoc on an industry vital to New York State. As their trees now stand, green leaves and no fruit, it is feared that a large percentage of these fruit farmers will be forced out of business. It is…

I agree with that. We may be debating prescription drug coverage, but it is in the larger context of what kind of country we want to be. What kind of values do we espouse? How are we going to ensure that people not only have the perception…

Now more than ever, we must remain resolute in our defense of America's values, interests and security. Our safety at home, as well as abroad rests on the strength of our military response, and Fort Drum is an absolutely essential…

In April, I had the privilege of visiting the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where other soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were recuperating from wounds suffered in battle in Afghanistan. I know that all American feel the same…

The first of the two projects is a parallel taxiway at Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield, WSAAF at Fort Drum. This project will construct a new concrete taxiway parallel to the main runway to support operations at the airfield. The taxiway is…

Rather than one day raising the debt limit without any plan to get us out of debt, except continuing to believe in the god of supply-side economics, which did not work so well 20 years ago, and instead of repealing the wealth tax without…

The events of September 11 had a disastrous effect on Lower Manhattan's mass transit infrastructure. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority serves roughly one third of the entire Nation's commuters. Twelve of its subway stations below…

From the Senator's study of this proposal, which I have to confess, when I first saw it, I thought it was a misprint--I could not believe the administration was about to make the cost of going to college more expensive for middle-income…

Is the Senator aware of the amount of money that the average American family already pays for college tuition and education, which as my colleague from the State of Washington pointed out is actually increasing faster than the rate of…