I am one who is very skeptical about this bill. I am not quite sure what the President is accusing me of. What we asked is that a program be built from the bottom up that would be targeted at helping people who are in need, that would be…

And what I suggest is that we proceed on this basis and not try to interject the TAA process, because I think that will cause this to grind to a halt here. We can discuss, as I told you, the appropriate proceeding on TAA. I am certainly…

When he said: I am always happy to take 80 percent; I don't need 100 percent--Republicans would be happy to take 80 percent. We would be happy to take 50 percent. In fact, probably most of us would be happy to take 30 percent. But so far…

I will refer to that editorial, because it sets the stage for what we need to do to fix this bill. The Gallup poll yesterday said that 56 percent of Americans believe that either this bill should not be passed or that it should require…

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…

I intend to vote against the resolution disapproving the release of the so-called second tranche of funds for the troubled asset relief program, or TARP, albeit with some reservations. When I first decided to support the TARP last fall, I…

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.

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?

Mr. President, today the Senate approved a resolution recognizing the right of Israel to defend itself against terrorist attacks from Gaza and reaffirming the United States' strong support for Israel in its battle with Hamas. The first…

the president-elect spoke to the stimulus package today. The Finance Committee had an informal meeting today to discuss the proposition. Its outlines are still quite vague. There is no specificity to what precisely will go into the…

I hope--and I am joined here by Senator Lieberman--that the Senate will have an opportunity to consider before this week is out a resolution we believe has been drafted by the majority leader and the minority leader that deals with the…

I wanted to note that what Senator Specter said a moment ago about Arizona judge Murray Snow are my feelings as well. He has been nominated to the Federal bench in Arizona. He is supremely qualified, unanimously ``well-qualified,''…

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…

as we began this day, the Senate had pending before it a very important piece of legislation addressing the necessity of extending some provisions in our current Tax Code that enable our businesses to compete with others abroad. There were…

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…

It is essentially a choice between the Democratic leadership trying to do this in a partisan way by simply bringing up the House bill and trying to push that through, or getting together, as we have done in the past, in a bipartisan way…

first of all, I note this legislation has nothing to do with ending our dependance on foreign oil. It does have something to do with ending our dependence on oil. In fact, what this legislation would do is make it much more difficult for…

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…

I wish to do that today and at the conclusion of my remarks put the full text of this op-ed in the record. Today's Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed by David Ranson called ``You Can't Soak the Rich.'' I find it compelling because of the…

the current newspaper-broadcast cross- ownership rule prohibits the coownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market. This rule is the only local ownership rule that has not been modified by the Federal Communications…

This motion would instruct the House and Senate budget conferees to assume a 1-year extension of the alternative minimum tax so-called patch, in other words, that the filers who have not had to pay that would not have to pay it in the…

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…

Each year Congress is required to fix the AMT because without such a fix--around here it is called a patch--but without such a fix, it would apply to, last year 22 million people, this year 26 million people. It was never intended to apply…