Mike Levin

I do not want anyone to be misled by the gentleman from Nevada. The $250,000 figure related to the Alternative Minimum Tax, not to the child credit. The AMT was never intended to apply, except to the very wealthy, and we want to make sure…

I commend Senator Domenici. He has worked long and hard on this issue. I am proud to be a cosponsor of the amendment. The bottom line is there are a number of instances where the Department of Energy has run into situations where it does…

I would like to clarify the understanding of the managers of this bill with regard to the restriction in section 319F-2(c)(9), as amended by the Gregg-Kennedy amendment, on the use of Bioshield funds from paying the costs for purchase of…

Another thing the bill does that it should not do, in my judgment, is to provide more than $10 billion for missile defense, including more than a half billion dollars for additional interceptors, without imposing basic "fly before you buy"…

The Senate has spoken. The administration should listen to common sense and to what the market says, that when supply in the private sector goes down, prices go up, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fills have made a major contribution…

This is a Levin-Collins amendment. It halts deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next 50 million barrels given the price of gasoline and jet fuel.

I could care less about the moon. I want a job. That was said to me by an electrician during our recess. He is one of 1,200 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in the metropolitan Detroit area out of work. He is…

His influence continues. He is now my chief of staff on my personal staff. He takes, of course, a major interest in this area, as he always has. I am sure Rick and Peter and all the others would say having David on my personal staff is a…

The chairman is correct on that. I concur with our chairman. This problem is not the one we have run into recently as much as it is a problem of a very great difference between the Senate provision, which the Senator from New Jersey helped…

My recollection is that on the Senate floor we did add a significant protection, a criteria before the Endangered Species Act would be ignored. That was under the Lautenberg amendment that we would require there be a conservation benefit…

I reach a different conclusion on how I will vote on the whole bill because of the other provisions in it, but I happen to agree with him in terms of his analysis on the Endangered Species Act and on the Marine Mammal Protection Act and…

Is the likelihood that we will be able to finish all the appropriations bills reduced when we spend 30 hours on some other subject which, again, does not lead to a vote on those judges, but nonetheless is it less likely that we will be…

Now, does that not mean, for people who might be watching this, that it was required that the supporters of that judge produce 60 votes?

I wish to ask my colleagues from Utah and Wisconsin if they are aware of the great need to control erosion and sediment in the Great Lakes region.

My own preference would have been, instead of a direct loan from us, that there be a loan from a third party, guaranteed by us. That is my preference because that would have taken away any possibility of misconstruing what we are doing…

I am reassured to hear such a strong commitment from my colleague from Oklahoma to achieve a 95-percent minimum rate of return for all States in the long-term highway reauthorization bill. I look forward to continuing to work closely with…

Our amendment will increase full efficiency but in positive ways by giving incentives to purchase vehicles, by having the Government buy the vehicles which are leaps ahead in technology, and by having the Government be more involved in…

Normally, our States would be able to rely on the operations and maintenance account for the corps to help repair damages to public facilities, such as obstructive deposits in flood control streams, bank erosion threatening public…

Mr. Speaker, as I was saying, you are not only going to dismantle Medicare later as a first step, and now try to dismantle the employer-based health care system in this country; but what you are doing is digging a deeper, deeper hole of…

No, but does the gentleman agree that he will not report back a conference report that will result in increased deficits by reason of additional tax benefits not offset by other provisions? Yes or no.

So is the answer, if I could then ask the gentleman, since it is my time, is the gentleman willing to say here on the floor that he will not bring back a conference report that would result in increased deficits by reason of additional tax…

I commend Senator Reid for his constancy and his commitment to this cause. His leadership has been nothing less than extraordinary. Last year, the legislation, which he initiated, to repeal this prohibition had 82 cosponsors. He has…

I share this concern. I will work with the Senate Armed Services Committee, through our important oversight role, to insure that the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program continues to be carried out effectively by the Departments of Defense…

I believe a careful, systematic study is needed by the executive branch on the effects of such a repeal, and especially, how it affects nations such as Russia, where we are cooperatively working to reduce the proliferation of weapons of…

We have included, however, a requirement for the specific authorization for low-yield warhead development beyond phase 2A or 6.2A. With this amendment, Congress and this committee, will continue to play an important oversight role on…