Jon Kyl

I am asking the Joint Tax Committee and the Institute for Policy Innovation to analyze the economic and revenue effects of this economic growth package. It is my intention that, if there is a revenue loss to the Treasury associated with…

As you know, the general authority of the Secretary to take land in trust was struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the case of United States Department of the Interior, et al. versus State…

Does the Senator agree that, as a matter of longstanding Congressional policy, Congress recognizes the principle that State water law governs the allocation and use of water within a State, subject to the Federal Government's power to…

No. Language in the act is explicit that nothing in the act establishes a Federal reserved right to groundwater. The act sets forth the attributes of the Hopi water rights on the newly acquired lands and provides how conflicts that may…

The legislation makes clear that water rights on newly acquired trust land that are specifically granted by this act are Federal water rights granted by Congress. They are Federal statutory water rights, not Federal reserved water rights.

In 1993, a flood caused severe damage to four areas of Arizona. They were considered Federal disaster areas. The Arizona congressional delegation met with Director Witt in October of last year. He assured us that FEMA would move promptly…

I think that every one of the people who smeared House Speaker Newt Gingrich not only owe him an apology--and it should be a very direct and specific apology--for the comments that the Senator from Georgia just read, but they owe an…

Without any involvement by Congress or without any report. Under our amendment, Congress has the ability to say no, and the President would have to continue to submit a report to us and he would have to report to us on the necessity for an…

Yes, clearly it is, because without the Kyl-Reid amendment, if China tests, the President can test, period, end of story.

My guess is, if a majority of Congress voted that way, it would send a message to the President. This, in any event, is a restriction that does not exist under current law. Today, the President can simply say, ``I am going to test because…

I believe the answer to the question is that a veto would lie in the event that a majority of the Congress voted to disapprove the President's action.

Independence Day takes on a new meaning. We are finally independent. We can keep the money we raise and spend it on our own families instead of funding government programs.

There are a lot of arguments made by Russians themselves that relate to the cost of continuing to maintain an arsenal. My guess would be that the Russians would at least want to draw their arsenal down to the levels called for in START I…

I guess what I am saying here is that the Russians themselves have made two contradictory arguments, both of which might be true. That is to say, No. 1, it is expensive to maintain these arsenals; No. 2, it is expensive to get rid of them…

It would be unfortunate if the two were required to be tied together and we could not act on the National Missile Defense Act, in my view anyway.

In response, I hope the Senator from Georgia is not suggesting that the National Missile Defense Act is being held hostage to bringing up the chemical weapons treaty because the two are not linked, and there are a lot of us who believe…

I just ask our colleagues tomorrow when the cloture vote comes to put us to the test and allow us to at least have a vote on the bill. We would like to get it passed. I would much rather move forward with the bill, get it to the President…

I accepted the numbers from the President, whose budget office gave that program a lower priority by virtue of the fact it was supposed to be temporary. So in years 3 and 4 we have accepted the numbers of the President's budget and then…

This is an amendment to save a little bit of money in the LIHEAP Program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. There are 6 years in our budget. The budget of the President and the committee and my amendment are all the same for…

I want to clarify for the membership who we are really talking about. These are people--850,000 of them--who are already here. My colleague says no one is talking about kicking them out. They are already in the country. So to me it is a…

Let me finish making this point. Because what we are talking about with the backlog requires two points of clarification. One, that backlog will be cleared up; those people will get their legal status eventually and, in the meantime, as my…

Very briefly, this immunization amendment, which was tentatively approved in the Immigration Subcommittee, simply requires that an individual applying for permanent residency status must be immunized for vaccine-preventable diseases. To…

April 21-27 is National Crime Victims' Rights Week. To ensure that crime victims are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect, I rise--along with my colleague Senator Feinstein--to introduce a joint resolution proposing a constitutional…

Just increasing the sap content of the trees makes them more impervious to beetles, and thus disease, thereby creating more nutrients in the grasses because the forest has opened up. Wildlife needs less grass because the protein content…

I want to make it clear, since you were quoting from my hometown newspaper editorializing against the bill, it was not the bill that is before us today.