Chris Dodd

I want to take the floor briefly this afternoon to announce some good news. Early this morning, at around 2 a.m., we were able to reach an agreement on the election reform bill between the House and the Senate. This has been a long and…

Also, as the Senator will remember, last year's Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act BPCA, established a mechanism by which drugs that companies did not voluntarily study would automatically be referred to the National Institute of…

It is a limited universe. My point is, we are not talking about every entity that conducts business for profit. We excluded the overwhelming majority of businesses that are private entities, that have no filing requirements with the SEC…

If the Senator from Texas were interested in creating a sense of uniformity, I could see him offering an amendment--I wouldn't agree with it--which would require that all businesses that are conducting their operations for profit be…

It occurs to me as well, in this bill, we are not requiring for all businesses these requirements. These are for businesses that have to file with the SEC.

I thank my good friend for bringing this issue to the attention of the Senate. This research area is important to the Navy and the defense of the United States. Technology being developed to support this capability is currently planned to…

As I mentioned earlier, the House bill includes $9 million for this purpose. My understanding, however, is that at least $12 million in fiscal year 2003 funding is needed to fully accelerate this program.

I concur with the senior Senator from Texas and will do all I can to address the legitimate needs of group life insurers in conference. To that end, I would invite the group life industry to continue to work with us so that we can better…

My colleague has not read the bill. We are talking about $10 billion as the deductible level.

I disagree. Facts will show after World War II we were the insurance company for acts of war. Acts of war occurred in World War II. The Federal Government was the party that paid the claims.

I say to my colleague, what we do is leave all the State insurance commissioners--and under the present scheme, and my colleague is a former commissioner and knows this better than I do, there are 40 States that allow for rate increases to…

You have to understand that, if you go on to page 9, line 14, a waiver pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of the prohibitions and requirements of section 3005 and 3007, and I refer back to page 6, 3005 and 3007. There it says, ``authority…

Nothing in this title would prohibit the United States from rendering assistance to the international efforts to bring to justice Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosovic, Osama bin Laden, and other members of Al Qaeda, leaders of Islamic Jihad…

I say to my colleague, you have to give assurance that none of this information either indirectly or directly would go to the Court in allowing for the prosecution of those people. I don't think the President could get that assurance. If…

I particularly commend him for his comments about the issue regarding Cuba and how we might do a better job than we have over the past 40 years of bringing democracy to that country. After 40 years of failed policies, one might think a new…

As the Senator has indicated, the managers' amendment includes a provision to ensure that each state will be guaranteed a minimum of one half of one percent of the grant money available under the act, which is approximately $17.5 million…

The grants to be awarded to states under this act would include construction of these types of infrastructure improvements, and are intended to include things like disabled parking spaces, sidewalks, ramps, and similar access ways.

Yes, I certainly agree with the Senator from California. We do not want to disenfranchise anyone, accidentally or otherwise, who is eligible to vote, and we need to address the unique set of circumstances surrounding our fellow citizens…

As the lead sponsor of the Senate bill, I am pleased to reassure the Senator from Arkansas that State and local election officials would not have to place an interactive computer containing voter registration information at each polling…

I thank Senator Jeffords for his early support of reform of the election system. I also appreciate his hard work to ensure that the good qualities of Vermont's election system are protected and replicated around the United States. I would…

Let me say to my colleague and to others on the Roberts amendment--my concern about it. We worked on this bill with provisional balloting which is a very important and significant part of this bill. People who go in to vote are going to…

I found myself outraged when I awoke this morning and saw the headline in our local newspaper, ``Medical Privacy Changes Proposed.''... I am terribly disappointed this morning to hear that the administration is going to be rolling back…

I rise today to express my optimism that Congress will enact real campaign finance reform this week. We must not use this week to merely re-debate legislation already fully debated and adopted by both chambers of Congress. Only final…

I wanted to commend our colleague from Pennsylvania who took a trip to Latin America. He talked about it and I commend him for doing that. A lot of attention is being focused-- rightfully so--on Southwest Asia because of events since 9-11…

I had hoped we could find compromise language on this last provision. That is still my hope. We have worked very hard. We have considered around 35 amendments. Both sides have added to the bill with accepted amendments. We have modified…