If my colleague will yield, let these remarks reflect as well, he is absolutely correct. We focus on New York, the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon. He is absolutely correct the people of Pennsylvania, those who lost their lives in…

let me take a second and commend our two colleagues from Michigan and from Virginia, the Chairman and Ranking Member. Only a few months ago, those roles were reversed; the chairman was from Virginia and the ranking member was from…

first of all, I want to share with my colleagues my expressions of gratitude to our President, President Bush, and his team as they have conducted the affairs of our state over these last number of days since the tragedy of September 11…

Yesterday the Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of John Negroponte to be the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. I was unable to attend yesterday's hearing because I was with my wife…

I know there will be those who say, that it isn't terribly important that the Honduran military committed human rights abuses more than fifteen years ago in some cases. Moreover, in relative terms those abuses in Honduras paled in…

obviously the highest priority as a nation is addressing every aspect of the terrorist attacks that took place in our country earlier this week. That is now and should be in the foreseeable future our primary concern as a Senate, a…

I would like to talk about election reform. I have talked about it on a number of occasions. Yesterday, as chairman of the Rules Committee, we had a markup of one of the election reform bills. I say with a high degree of sadness--and I…

I thank the Chair. The Ford-Carter Commission described the results of last fall's election as ``a political ordeal unlike any in living memory.'' It was an ordeal that spread beyond a few counties in Florida to encompass-- and…

the Nuremberg Trial of the leading Nazi war criminals following World War II was a landmark in the struggle to deter and punish crimes of war and genocide, setting the stage for the Geneva and Genocide Conventions. It was also largely an…

I rise to spend a couple minutes talking about an issue that has received some notoriety in recent months and some specific attention over the last few weeks. That is the issue of the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico and the incarceration…

The second subject matter is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This morning the New York Times as well as others reported that there were serious reservations being expressed by superintendents of schools and educators across the…

I am going to come to the floor later with lengthier remarks, but there are two subject matters I want to bring to the attention of my colleagues that I am sure they have taken note of over the last several days. The first is the…

I understand the very difficult job the Appropriations Committee has faced in producing this supplemental appropriations bill and I commend the leadership of the committee for its work. However, it is very unfortunate that it was necessary…

I commend the Senator from West Virginia and the Senator from Alaska and the Senator from Hawaii. It is a hard job. It is not easy. We are talking 80 days. And those days are shrinking as long as we take to resolve this in the…

There is a title to this bill. It is not titled casually; it is called the Patients' Bill of Rights. We talk about a bill of rights. Obviously we are all most familiar with our Constitution and the Bill of Rights we embrace and cherish so…

let me begin by, first of all, commending my good friends and colleagues from Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Arizona, Senators Kennedy, Edwards, and McCain, for their leadership on this issue--bringing a series of reforms that seek to…

I commend my dear friend from Nebraska for his remarks celebrating the 226th anniversary of the Army. I am glad I was present on the floor to hear the annual ``Hooah'' from a wonderful former sergeant who served with great distinction…

briefly, I had printed in the Record letters in support of my afterschool amendment, letters from Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, from 1,000 chiefs of police, prosecutors, crime survivors, and police organizations. Their letters are strong…

I have been deeply interested in afterschool programs. Going back, in fact, I offered some of the earliest amendments to support afterschool programs as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, and then as the ranking…

Can there be any more eloquent argument that whatever else we do with Straight A's and academic performance, we should not take a program for which there is such need in this country, where the overwhelming evidence is that police officers…

There are 28 million children in 12 million families struggling to make ends meet, and of that number a staggering number of these kids are home alone, or if not home, someplace else unsupervised. For those reasons, over 1,000 chiefs of…

I have heard this repeatedly over this debate in the last hour, that if this amendment is adopted, this destroys the straight A's program. This amounts to 5.7 percent, according to the Congressional Research Service, of the funding in the…

That is correct. Again, here it is not a question of sort of dumping the money out there. Localities have to apply for it. You have to ask for it. If you ask for it, there is only a small chance you may actually get it. I would like to see…

I commend my colleague from Ohio. He no longer serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. But he did serve on it. I have enjoyed my work in the Senate over the years, but never as much as I have enjoyed working with the…

I do not intend to offer this amendment, but I wanted to raise it as a subject matter that has been discussed both in the other body and here. As we all know, Puerto Rico is part of America. They do not have Senators here, so from time to…