The Senate has no basis. The CBO told us that they cannot make the estimate. You say they can be honest. You ought to say that in the bill, they can be honest. But you do not want to say that in the bill because then the point of order…

Why, then, do we not have the same language on the intergovernmental as we do on the private?

We have been diligent. We have tried for weeks and weeks and weeks and months to get an estimate and cannot get it because they say there is no way they can make this estimate for various reasons. It may be that the EPA is going to…

I am saying quite the opposite, if the Senator would yield. Quite the opposite. It is worth getting an estimate. It is worth getting an honest estimate. And there is no way that in a few minutes, or in a few hours--indeed in a few days, if…

the point the chairman makes, it seems to me, cuts exactly the opposite way. Since an appropriation is hanging on the estimate when it comes to the intergovernmental money, it seems to me that is more of a reason that estimate should be…

And I do know that at some point they will be offered. But I would only point out also to the ranking member, to the Senator from Ohio, if he could also then give me his attention--forgive me--on this, that the Budget Committee has adopted…

The Senator from Alaska raised this very point during a debate on the language which would ban travel to the so-called charitable events. That exact argument was raised. The Senator from Alaska attempted to strike the language which would…

I was one of the conferees last year in that conference, and the language which was added here was not adopted by the conference. I do not know of any Republican in the conference or Democrat that supported the language being in the final…

as I said earlier, the lobbying reform issue, the lobbying disclosure portion of that conference report is not incorporated in this amendment that we will be voting on. That issue, lobbying disclosure, lobbying registration reform, would…

First of all, we sure do need political campaign finance reform. I could not agree with the Senator more. One of the glaring omissions from the Gingrich contract, it seems to me, is that there is no reference to campaign finance reform and…

I share the concern of the proponents of this proposal to modify Senate rule XXII that the right to filibuster has been abused in the Senate in recent years. In the entire 19th century only 16 filibusters occurred. In the 26 Congresses…