in listening to the comments against the Carper-Specter amendment, I am not sure they have fully read the Levin-Bond amendment. I know they have not read the amendment we offer today. Senator Specter and I both voted for the Levin-Bond…

the Levin-Bond amendment language which is in this bill requires the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations increasing fuel efficiency standards. Our amendment changes nothing in the Levin-Bond amendment. Our amendment says…

Mr. President, the issue that is before us involves cogenerating facilities which create both heat and power. They are highly efficient and environmentally attractive. They exist in almost all of our States. Unfortunately, section 244 of…

With the combined heat and power facilities, we have the ability to generate energy almost twice as efficiently as we generate it from traditional utilities, traditional generating plants. With combined heat and power facilities, we see…

The issue of global warming has been vigorously debated for the past two decades. Is the climate on Earth getting dangerously warmer, and if so, is modern-day air pollution to blame? While many have exchanged rhetoric on the matter, two…

today marks, I believe, the 6th week during which we have been debating the energy legislation that is before us. In my own view, among the bills we will debate and discuss and vote on this year in this Chamber, few, if any, are as or more…

As Governors, we were mindful of the prerogatives of the States and our roles and responsibilities as chief executives of our States. We worked through our national and regional organizations to make sure the concerns of our region and the…

for 2 weeks we have debated the comprehensive energy policy we should have for this country. Most Members and most Americans agree we need to do two basic things: One, we need to create more energy; two, we need to conserve more energy…

I simply begin by thanking you, first, for your statement in the Chamber today, but also, more importantly, for the leadership that you, Senator Murkowski, and others have demonstrated to bring us to this point today. I cannot speak for…

I am delighted we finally have the opportunity to consider election reform. I am especially glad we are doing so in a way that is probably as close to bipartisan as anything we will work on this year. I commend Senator Dodd. I commend…

earlier this afternoon, an hour or so ago on this floor, we adopted a new farm policy for our country. In Delaware, in Michigan, even in Connecticut and Kansas, farmers are struggling to try to make a go of it. Some of the woes that our…

The patient we have been trying to bring back to health is not a stimulus package. The patient that has been in the hospital bed has been the economy. We have had a sick economy, and we have been working to try to figure out how we might…

I am not interested in casting aspersions today at the work of our Republican friends with respect to the economic recovery package. I think, for the most part, they have entered into this in good faith. Senator Grassley of Iowa has worked…

I rise because we have passed the 13th conference report on the 13 appropriations bills. As we prepare to return to our home States, everyone here in the Chamber and everyone in the Senate can find some aspect of the conference report on…

My two colleagues from New Jersey are correct in their assessment of the importance of this $2 million appropriation for smokeless nitrocellulose. Earlier this year, an anti-competitive joint venture, which would have centralized the…

Senator Inouye has been a good friend and mentor to this new Senator, as has a Senator I call ``Mr. Secretary,'' the former Secretary of the Navy, Senator Warner from Virginia, who also has been a good counselor and advisor to me. When…

let me begin by saying plainly and unabashedly that I love our flag. I wear an American flag lapel pin to work every single day. We fly ``Old Glory'' at our home throughout the year and display it proudly in each of my Senate offices. The…

I, too, am a strong advocate of this legislation. I have spoken for it in the Chamber and in our caucus meetings as well. As the Senator from North Dakota and the Senator from New Mexico have indicated about their relatives, my grandfather…

Part of what is proposed in this railroad retirement plan is: Take the money that has been set aside, paid into by the railroads themselves and by the railroad employees; that can only be invested in U.S. Treasury obligations.

Delaware is one of five States that has no sales tax. One might think as a result we have no dog in this fight. We do. I think we all do, whether we happen to be from a sales tax State or not. My colleague who spoke immediately before me…

I rise, too, to applaud the leadership given to us in the last several days by Senator Daschle and Senator Lott. Thirty years ago, I did not serve in this body; I served as a naval flight officer on the other side of the world, in a war…

I thought, 28 years ago, we needed an energy policy for our country. Twenty-eight years later, we still need an energy policy for our country. We did not have one then; and we do not have one now.

I rise today during this period of time when we are discussing the need for additional security for airports and airliners to again voice my strong support for the measures included in the legislation that is soon to be before us. Having…

I say from this side of the aisle that we welcome the decision not to challenge the bill so that we can go forward. The points the Senator made are well taken. Our Nation's trade deficit this year will exceed $300 billion. We consume oil…

Having said that, if we have not learned any other lesson from the events of 3 weeks ago, I hope we have learned that this country needs an energy policy. ... Today it is almost 60 percent, and we still have no energy policy. My hope is…