Jon Kyl

I appreciate that and would just note if we could get a response to that letter, I think it would be very helpful.

He flies off to Los Angeles tonight to be on the Jay Leno show. My suggestion is that he come back, since he's taken the full responsibility, to get his people together and say, all right, I want to know exactly what happened, who did what…

I really appreciate your indulgence. I had intended to be here a little bit earlier so I would not be as disruptive.

It is a very important subject, and I appreciate the Committee's consideration of it.

I think most of us share Senator Hatch's view that we have to find a good source of funding for the Patent Office.

I think all of us share Senator Klobuchar's concerns, and I would also associate my self with Senator Feinstein's comments.

Republicans believe that individuals are better off in making decisions about their financial future than allowing the government to do it for them. That is why we say, as Michael Steele said, let people keep more of their own money and…

I do think if we're trying--I appreciated your response regarding executive privilege, but on behalf of good people who worked in the Bush administration I would disagree with the comment that the Bush administration didn't care whether…

The lone wolf provision needs to be reauthorized by the end of this year. Will you support reauthorization of FISA's lone wolf surveillance authority?

I look forward to the opportunity of working with both of you on trying to provide some additional deterrence to illegal border crossing.

We are just interested that that does not drag on beyond the time that a normal review process would require.

Over the last week on our side, we have listened to some of our colleagues suggest that Republicans have obstructed action on important matters here. I want to ensure that with respect to protecting our seniors through the service of the…

I wish to make the point that when we do extend unemployment benefits, if we do, the Senate needs to weigh in on its ideas about how it ought to be done, for one thing. The House-passed bill, which I don't think we want to consider…

This is one of the most dramatic--or would be, if passed-- one of the most dramatic changes in law, as one publication pointed out, since the 1930s in terms of increasing the scope of Government. Surely we can spend 30 hours debating this…

I absolutely agree with the Senator from Texas that we have to get to a point where we can debate and vote on alternatives to assist our veterans. It is very distressing to me to hear there are TV ads running against the Senator from Texas…

Both the chairman of the committee and I have resolutions that are almost identical. They both call for us to extend the so-called patch for the alternative minimum tax which otherwise would affect about 26 million taxpayers this year; to…

Just to conclude, the budget says expiring provisions are accommodated, but I don't think the Senate is going to raise $50 billion in new taxes to pay for these, to pay permanently for 1 or 2 years of these extenders. In fact, in recent…

Last year this amendment received 56 votes, Democratic and Republican votes. It was then in the form of a motion to instruct conferees, but the provisions are the same. This is the amendment on the estate tax that has a top rate not to…

The question here is whether we are serious about estate tax reform. We went through the exercise last year and passed it in the budget, and we didn't do anything. We are going to repeat that same thing this year unless we commit ourselves…

It is actually not quite that. It is $5 million. The way this is written, if one spouse, let's say, the person who is not running the business, dies first, you can plan so you can get most of the effect of $10 million in the unified credit…

If I may respond, as an expert in the Tax Code, the Senator from New Hampshire knows the technical name of the doctrine which applies in this case, except we have made an exception in the case of death. If you are robbed or if your house…

The rate would be reduced from 55 percent, if we don't do anything, to 35. I believe the majority proposal is 45. This would make the top rate no higher than 35 percent.

Because I respect the Senator so much and was sure he would tell us what the context was, No. 1. No. 2, I certainly agree with the distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee on both of the subsequent two comments: one, that we should…

I believe it was during a March 4, 2007, interview on ``60 Minutes'' when the distinguished chairman said: I believe, first of all, that we need more revenue. Now I won't pretend that I know the exact context in which this statement was…

Certainly I respect the majority leader's comments. He talked about the fact that violence is down in Iraq. But, of course, the suicide bombers continue to wreak havoc. We all deplore that. I was in Israel last week at the border town in…