I ask my colleague, the chairman of the Budget Committee, how big was the deficit in the budget you brought to the Senate floor, the budget you voted out of committee?

Senator Levin's amendment will shift funds from extra, untested interceptor missiles to programs that will detect and stop the most urgent threat facing our country: the risk posed by terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. Not only…

I rise to explain why I cannot support either the Warner or the Lautenberg amendment regarding the return of the remains of military personnel to Dover Air Force Base. The Warner amendment was an endorsement of the current policy, which…

in a few months, the administration will announce that a national missile defense has been fielded in Alaska. Nobody in this body will be fooled by that announcement. We know smoke and mirrors when we see them, and that is what the…

But it doesn't have to any more than the last Senate bill had to stay a Senate bill. I have been here 32 years. I may not be in the No. 2 position in my party, as my friend was, but I don't need an education on how we do this. This is…

I rise today, regretfully, to discuss the faltering state of democracy in Russia. I say ``regretfully,'' because during my more than 31 years in the U.S. Senate, I have consistently striven to improve relations between our country and…

There's a reason why we sign these treaties to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties so when Americans are captured they are not tortured. That's the reason in case anybody forgets it. That's the reason.

I joined 56 of my Senate colleagues and over 200 in the House of Representatives in writing the President asking that he work with the Congress toward a policy that will enable important medical research to proceed utilizing stem cells…

The bottom line is the neoconservatives believe our power is enhanced by leveraging power. Meaning if we go alone without any help, the malcontents of the world go: Oh, my God, look at them, they don't even listen to the rest of the world…

Delaware is a small State and everyone seems to know everyone else. We know just about everyone in the State. You can't go to the grocery store, church, synagogue, or mosque without running into people you know. We go to each other's…

No, we are not. But we could be if the President is willing to not stay the course but change the course. There is an opportunity, if the President begins to listen to the correct voices in his administration, to internationalize this, to…

I say to my friend--I will make two points here. One is, it was not only the Senator from Delaware and Florida, but also the Senator from Indiana, the Republican chairman, who pointed out we made a mistake by dismissing the policy of…

I do not have clear evidence yet as to whether they were raided by the Iraqi government or by the CPA, but both the Senator and I have been incredible skeptics of this administration's reliance on this fellow, Ahmed Chalabi, who has been…

The bottom line is it is a long time in coming. I hope this means we have listened to the sounds of voices in this administration. I say to my friend, we both know this: We have both tried to help this administration, but it is as though…

As we both know, the details of that are classified, but we are allowed to say, and I give you my opinion, and I believe it would be the consensus of the intelligence community: No. We are not safer.

Clearly we are not. That is not to suggest you are suggesting it is not good Saddam is gone. I think we are, in a marginal sense, safer because he is gone. But I think the effect of what we have allowed to happen, or what has happened in…

I am proud to co-sponsor the amendment offered by my colleagues, Senator Domenici and Senator Feinstein, which authorizes a program to accelerate U.S. efforts to remove, secure, store, or destroy fissile and radiological material that…

I rise to pay tribute to the 145 law enforcement officers who gave their lives in service to their communities last year. They are true heroes, and their families are owed our gratitude. This is National Police Week. Tonight, the National…

I think Rumsfeld's resignation is a bit of a sideshow in a sense.

I am alarmed by reports of atrocities there. I am worried that genocide may be unfolding. We need to make a determination about what is going on in Darfur and respond accordingly. Administration officials have termed it ethnic cleansing…

You know there's this tradition in the United States Navy if a captain of a ship goes up on the shoals, almost regardless of whether it was his fault or not, he loses command.

I am very pleased to recommend that the United States Senate give its advice and consent to ratification of the Additional Safeguards Protocol between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA. Ratification of…

We should stop this talk of unilateralism, and we should stop this bravado that has characterized some parts of the administration, and talk about the need for NATO to work together, get NATO into Iraq.

like a lot of my colleagues this week, I have been visited here in Washington by a number of my constituents. We get to hear, first hand, about the lives of the people we represent, about how we can help them or hurt them. As we debated…

There really is no American train security.