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I have great respect for every Senator. I have tremendous respect for Mr. Gramm, the Senator from Texas who made the point of order. I have the highest respect for Ted Stevens on that side of the aisle. I have said that many times. I don't…
I yield to no man when it comes to putting the defense of this Nation ahead of all other things. I have no problem with the Senate proceeding--I expected it to at some point--with the Defense bill. I expected Senators to have an…
I sought to do three things: No. 1, to give the President every penny he asked for for defense. He requested $21 billion. And there is not a penny cut away. We have added $7.5 billion for New York, et al, and $7.5 billion for homeland…
I did not want to let this week go by without my saying just a few words about Senator Thurmond. It was 99 years ago that Strom Thurmond was born in Edgefield, SC. Ninety-nine years old. What a feat, 99. Abraham lived to be 175 years old…
I urge the Department of Justice and other national security agencies to give due consideration to projects such as the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center that ensure a reliable system of intelligence sharing between local…
I see no reason why the U.S. Customs Service should not look at the issue of reverse inspection and I would support their doing so.
Senator Stevens, Senator Inouye, and I have worked during the afternoon with our staffs to bring to the Senate an amendment which would provide for the carrying out of the purposes that I announced earlier when I presented the amendment…
to the credit of the administration and the Congress, a scant 3 days after the assault on New York, a $40 billion emergency supplemental spending package was approved. My colleague, Mr. Stevens, has called attention to that. At that time…
I am aware that he said this. He said that, for the first time we are more likely to suffer casualties on the homefront than among our forces here or abroad.
There is $225 million in this package to jump-start the effort to upgrade those computers. They are the instruments of communication between and among the FBI and the other agencies. It is a dire need, and it should be met now, not next…
friends, Senators, Americans, lend me your ears. It was just 56 days ago on a day like this day, as clear as the noon day Sun and a cloudless sky, that tragedy struck. Until September 10 we thought of national defense in terms of the…
I also included $150 million in this package for cyber security. It is alarming to know that the next terrorist attack could cripple our Nation's economy simply by a few strokes of the keyboard. Cyber-attacks have cost our economy $12…
We have presently 498 inspectors on the 4,000-mile long northern border--334 individuals who travel from one area to another, the Border Patrol--and at 62 of the 113 ports of entry along the northern border nobody is watching at certain…
The Senator is correct. Why wait? Why toy with ``wait''? Why gamble? Why not act now? The Senator knows we have wrapped a ribbon around this homeland defense package which says, in essence: Mr. President, you may use this or you may not…
the Scriptures say that a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and pictures of silver. The words of the distinguished Senator from Maryland are fitly spoken. The time is now. The danger is here. It is now. Now, several subcommittees…
That appears to be the case. And it boggles my mind to think that while we have a perfectly logical, commonsense approach here of providing to the President the means whereby he can deal earlier, quicker, more effectively with possible…
I thank my friend. We are not being confrontational. I have no hesitance whatsoever to be confrontational with the President of the United States or anybody else. Let the President advocate fast track; I am ready for that confrontation…
Absolutely. May I say that the two distinguished Senators from New York have not once, have not twice, have not thrice, but many times talked with me about the needs, the immediate needs, of the people of New York. They have talked to me…
Mr. Fanning was talking about the people at the ground level, the people at ground zero, the people who are the first to arrive when the alarm bells ring. Fanning said: If lives are to be saved and suffering reduced, it will be up to them…
Yes. I am also saying those tunnels that go into Penn Station in New York are traps. They were built before World War I. I am passed 84 years of age, and they were built before I discovered America. They are inadequately ventilated, they…
Yes, I saw it on television. I saw it on the agonized faces of wives, mothers, and fathers. The terrorists made many widows that day. The terrorists made many orphans that day. I saw it in the sweaty, grimy faces and hands of the workers…
I do not envy myself for being in the position in which I find myself. Senator Stevens is a Senator who can say no and make you like it--almost. He is always so gracious. I have heard a lot about his renowned temper. I have seen it at…
I do not understand how any Member of this body could sleep if we fail to take this critical step for the protection of the people who sent us here. Have we become so cynical that we cannot even do that? Are we so insensitive that we would…
with great pleasure, I belatedly wish the happiest of birthdays to the senior Senator from South Carolina. It was 99 years ago yesterday that Strom Thrumond was born in Edgefield, SC. Ninety-nine years old, what a feat. that makes him old…
the Senate has now turned to consideration of the conference report accompanying the Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002. The bill includes a combination of appropriations and obligation limitations…
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