Cord Byrd

Would the reporter kindly note there was laughter again in the Congressional Record. We have to make that Congressional Record come alive.

I remember our providing $2.5 billion--$2.5 billion--for homeland security. We designated it in the committee as an emergency item, and all that remained to be done--all that remained to be done--in order to have that $2.5 billion…

OK. Well, I was a high school senior in 1934. I graduated that year. And we were hearing talk, in those days, about a gadget that would allow one to see a person as that person spoke or would allow one to see a person who played the violin…

to contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experience. On this February day, as this Nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. My wife says to me at…

this past Saturday my longtime, good friend, and former staff member, Joe Meadows, passed away. Joe Meadows was a dedicated, hard-working, conscientious, sincere, and loyal individual. As the mail clerk in my office in the Hart Building…

as President Bush gears up for a possible war in Iraq, we have been treated to repeated announcements of troop deployments and callups of Reserve forces. A fourth aircraft carrier battle group centered around the USS Theodore Roosevelt is…

I think it is time for the American people to hear more from the Senate. I do not think they have heard enough from the Senate on this matter that is so vital to them, to their loved ones, to their fortunes, and to their futures. As far as…

I am proud to cosponsor with Senator Stevens a resolution commending Mr. Art Rynearson who is retiring as Deputy Legislative Counsel of the Senate on January 31, 2003. I have had the pleasure of working with Art on many laws relating to…

President Bush last night warned the American people to brace for war with Iraq. In his State of the Union Address, he vowed that if Saddam Hussein does not disarm, the United States will ``lead a coalition'' to disarm him. Although the…

I too appreciate Senator Crapo's devotion to the SNRA. I am pleased we have been able to provide funding for this worthy project in the past and are near completion. I look forward to working with the Senator during the conference.

Mr. president, I, too, thank the Senators from Virginia and Arkansas for raising this issue and for their strong support of State wildlife conservation efforts, I will give every consideration to this request as we discuss this program…

The Rivers and Trails Program provides significant benefits to local governments and organizations for river restoration, the preservation of open space, and the development of trail and greenway networks. Certainly, the staff's technical…

Today I voted in favor of the Edwards amendment requiring a 6-month delay in four New Source Review, NSR, rules so that a study by the National Academy of Sciences, NAS, could be carried out. I support a commonsense approach to making air…

So I salute her. Now that the nomination has been reported unanimously to the Senate by the Governmental Affairs Committee, it seems certain that Tom Ridge will be confirmed by an overwhelming margin to be the Nation's first Secretary of…

the President says, ``Remember the deficits.'' I say remember the $1.6 trillion tax cut that was enacted by this body and the other body last year. I say, let us not enact a $670 billion tax cut that this President and this administration…

They are saying to these two Senators and the members of that subcommittee: Forget your experience, forget your wisdom, forget what you say. We are going to have an arbitrary figure. It doesn't mean anything; it is just a figure. And you…

I hope Senators will listen. Rarely in recent memory has the United States faced more profoundly serious and complicated challenges to our global leadership. We are beginning our second year of war in Afghanistan, our second year of…

I am relieved that the administration, despite North Korea's alarming rhetoric, appears to fully comprehend the folly of a preemptive military strike on a nation which we believe is a nuclear power, and has finally agreed to at least talk…

And this amendment impugns the good judgment of the Senator who is now speaking to me and his counterpart from Pennsylvania.

If this is compassion, the shedding of tears means nothing. Where is the compassion when it comes to spending money to send our men and women overseas, with all of this big, loose talk that we hear, and we are spending money hand over…

That is just one example, and it is a shameful--not just a disgrace, it is a shame, a shame. This across-the-board cut is not a careful choice. This cut would result in ham-handed reductions in veterans' programs, public health programs…

Those two Senators have chaired that committee and they have worked hard. They have used their good judgment based on the testimony and based on the facts.

Yes. I am getting to that. I want Senators to answer the question from their veterans, where were you?

I say to the leader, how long ago was it we heard the President of the United States saying, no price is too great a price to pay for freedom? Right? When they talk about war in Afghanistan, they talk about war in Iraq, no price is too…

In this new world, we face a new kind of war--a war on our shores, a war that is different in scope and intensity from any that we have ever faced before. The enemy is no organized army. There is no organized army of infantry, or…