What the American people are holding this administration accountable for is their dangerous incompetence.

I was necessarily absent this morning when we considered Senator Baucus's amendment to the debt limit increase. If I had been here, I would have supported the Baucus amendment. The Baucus amendment is clearly needed. The massive scale of…

during consideration of the Menendez amendment, No. 3054, I was unavoidably detained in a meeting off the Senate floor and missed the vote. As a cosponsor of the amendment to provide funding for port security, I would have voted ``aye.''…

two of the greatest challenges we face today are how to address the needs of post-conflict countries, and countries that are suffering from large-scale natural disasters. These are critical issues, and ones that we cannot afford to get…

today, I am introducing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Implementation Act of 2006. This legislation will provide $41.625 billion over the next 10 years to help ensure that we implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Back…

today, with my friend from Kansas, Senator Brownback, I am submitting a resolution urging the President to help stop genocide in Sudan. The killing in Darfur has gone on way too long. In July of 2004, Congress declared the actions that…

I have refrained from speaking on this bill up until now because, quite frankly, my colleague, our leader, Senator Durbin, and our ranking Member of the Committee on the Budget and others have spoken with eloquence and precision, I…

I will speak up to 5 minutes on an amendment that is not in the first package of amendments we will vote on, but since we will have no opportunity in the second and third package of amendments, I will speak to it now. I have an amendment…

according to the Book of Mark, Jesus asked this question: ``For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?'' Mark 8:36. I would ask the President of the United States a similar question-- what good…

in March of this year, I--along with Senator Lugar--introduced S. 559, the Protection of Vulnerable Populations During Humanitarian Emergencies Act of 2005, a bill to make vulnerable people, especially women and children, a priority of our…

The hard truth is that our large military presence in Iraq is both necessary and increasingly counterproductive.

I no longer believe you.

yesterday the U.S. Senate approved the conference report to accompany H.R. 2862, the Science-State-Justice appropriations bill. I voted for this legislation because it provides critical funding for the Department of Justice, the FBI, and…

Absolutely not. I don't think that you see -- I wouldn't call the vote of Bill Frist and the vote of -- of Republican conservative Chairman Warner as cut-and-run. We're saying, Mr. President, give us a plan, man.

before my friend from Connecticut leaves, I point out it is not partisanship that has caused the American people to leave this war; it is the incredible gap between the rhetoric of the administration of the last 2 years and the reality on…

I have no debate or disagreement about what the Senator said. I was wondering whether the chairman and the cochair, the Democratic chair, would object to--maybe this is not the appropriate place to do it--a second-degree amendment, or an…

If it is adopted, and I am not saying I will, but will the Senator from Delaware have an opportunity to amend the substitute? The PRESIDING OFFICER. No.

on November 1, the Committee on Foreign Relations conducted a business meeting to consider several matters. The motion to report the nomination of Roland Arnall to be U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands failed on a 9-to-9 tie. The chairman…

I will vote in favor of the Ensign amendment to this bill, relating to the use of riot control agents, and I want to make clear to my colleagues why a steadfast supporter of the Chemical Weapons Convention can do so in good conscience…

back in January I used a similar amendment for the first bill I introduced this year. There is a simple reason for it: It is more clear it is needed now. We have to take this out of politics. As long as we are involved, we will argue this…

yesterday the Senate passed S. Res. 282, which recognizes October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and establishes a sense of the Senate that the Congress should raise awareness of domestic violence in the United States and its impact…

Senator Specter, Senator Brownback, and I introduce today the Second Chance Act of 2005, which takes direct aim at reducing recidivism rates for our nation's ex-offenders and improving the transition for these offenders from prison back…

the people of Kashmir are no strangers to hardship. Their beautiful, tragic land has been the arena of full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan, a long-running insurgency marked by exceptional brutality and penetration by terrorist…

I recognize and pay tribute to the United Nations on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary. During this week in 1945, fifty countries came together to found the United Nations, a body created to advance two momentous goals: a world free…

may I proceed for 7 or 8 minutes as in morning business between now and the time Senator Hatch comes at 2:30?