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I commend Senators Gregg and Kennedy for their hard work in bringing this important legislation to the floor. I share in their commitment to protect Americans from bio-terrorism. Last year, I worked with Senator Cochran, the chairman of…
I have said along this line that it was a great pleasure serving on this committee with Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. I thought he was a great chairman. He was. When he left the committee, I felt it would certainly be a long time before his…
the American people know about the strong and honorable character of the American soldier. Over the last 228 years, the United States Army has rightly earned the reputation of a professional fighting force that is courageous in battle and…
it is appropriate on a trade bill such as the one now pending before the Senate, that we, at long last, engage in a debate about the standard of living for American workers. The establishment of the 40-hour work week and a worker's right…
on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004, this Nation lost a fine soldier, a good man, a loving father and husband, and a faithful Christian when SGM Michael Boyd Stack of C Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group Airborne, was killed in…
a year ago the President of the United States harkened back to his days as an aviator for the Texas Air National Guard to deliver a dramatic made-for-television speech. Eager to experience the thrill of a carrier landing, the President…
the Senator from Oregon, as I have already indicated, is a gentleman. I think--in fact I know--that if all Senators accorded to their fellow Senators and fellow men and women the graciousness that he accords us, not only the Senate but the…
our country is facing record budget and trade deficits. We are in a war of our President's choosing that is not, to put it mildly, going as well as had been expected. Millions of Americans are without health care and millions more worry…
it is the poet T.S. Eliot who reminds us, as if we needed to be reminded, that ``April is the cruelest month.'' How prescient his words ring this April 2004, as we reflect upon the deepening crisis and the steadily mounting death toll in…
I can listen to a Methodist, to a Baptist, a Presbyterian, Seventh-Day Adventist, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest. I have no problem in listening and paying rapt attention to anyone speak of his or her religion. My own religion is the…
Yesterday, for the third time in this Congress, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to a one-sided, take-it-or-leave-it medical malpractice bill. Last year, the majority leader tried to bring up a comprehensive…
I have watched with heavy heart and mounting dread as the ever precarious battle to bring security to postwar Iraq has taken a desperate turn for the worse in recent days and hours. Along with so many Americans, I have been shaken by the…
17,000 votes ago, I achieved a dream. I stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and prepared to cast my first vote as a Senator from the Mountain State of West Virginia. Seventeen thousand votes later, I still feel much the same. It is a…
It is as if an old black-and-white photograph has been gently tinted by a master's hand. A soft, green mist has crept over barren fields and dormant lawns. A rosy blush, tenderly applied, warms the tree tops with the buds of new leaves…
It is not spending that has put us back into the deficit ditch. Spending for 2005 is estimated to be about 20 percent of the gross domestic product. That is significantly less than during the Reagan administration or during the…
Mr. President, the Senate should ensure that delinquent taxpayers pay their fair share of taxes before we cut vital domestic investments for citizens who actually pay their taxes. With that savings, we can restore the spending for our…
the debate about budget deficits is taking place all across this country. Ironically, the one place where debate is discouraged on this matter is right here in the world's greatest deliberative body. My amendment would strike the tax…
for many years, I have been growing increasingly concerned about the Senate as a forum for debate. Senators at every turn seem bent upon undermining this institution and the vision of our constitutional framers embodied in this upper body…
I thank the Chair. The distinguished chairman has alluded to the sometimes ill will that exists increasingly within our own premises. That ill will is often engendered by the meddling of the White House. The White House should not meddle…
You know, my wife and I are the proud possessors of two great-grandchildren, just within the last month. The distinguished chairman's grandson, and Erma's and my great-grandchildren, each of them owes, as of this past Monday, $24,253.36 on…
on January 3, 1963, Daniel Inouye became a U.S. Senator. Today, 15,036 days later, he has become the fifth longest serving Senator in American history. This is yet another accomplishment in the life and career of a remarkable man and…
The moral of the story, said Aesop, is that it takes more than just fine feathers to make fine birds. It is an age-old lesson that the Congress should hold in its mind as we consider how best to investigate the distorted and misleading…
with the release of the President's budget for the fiscal year 2005, and the upcoming markup of the fiscal year 2005 budget resolution, it is now clear the promises made by this administration during the 2000 election have not been kept…
I share the concern of my chairman, Senator Stevens, on this matter and join with him in insisting that the Senate attend to this matter on a legislative vehicle that will be enacted into law very soon. This matter is of the utmost…
Mr. President, it is not hyperbole to suggest that the sky is falling for too many American workers. You could also say that the ship is sinking. You could say that the mine wall is collapsing, that the dam is giving way, or use any number…
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