Cord Byrd

I say that under this Constitution, this President--any President--as Commander in Chief of our country, and as the chief executive officer of this country, has the inherent power to repel any sudden, unforeseen attack upon this Nation…

I say to my dear friend, point to Iraq, for which I have no grievance, and talk about Iraq's violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Turkey has violated those resolutions; and that ain't all. Israel has violated those…

We were doing that, but we ought to have been doing more. Why wait until an election and then come up all of a sudden and say, Oh, we have got to have this S.J. Res., we have got to put into the hands of one man the trust and the…

That is right. We ended with the United States being left holding the bag for about $7.5 billion.

What were we doing in those 4 years? What were we doing? What were we failing to do that now comes to mind that makes us so determined and so hell-bent to vote on this rag, S.J. Res. 46, before this election? We knew all this for 4 years…

No, but I remember Caesar, when he saw one of the Roman soldiers running away from the battle, he took that Roman soldier and turned him around. He said: You are running in the wrong direction. That is what I am afraid we are doing. We are…

We are voting on this new Bush doctrine of preventive strikes--preemptive strikes. There is nothing in this Constitution about preemptive strikes. Yet in this rag here, this resolution, S.J. Res. 46, we are about to vote to put the…

Let's let the United Nations, that forum of world opinion, speak. Let it make its decision; let's see where those people stand; let's see where those other nations stand, and then come back to this body and the body across the Capitol and…

I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said that. I want to make that perfectly clear.

I just want to say this: I agree with what the Senator said in respect to the appropriations bills. We had this talk--those of us who agreed on appropriations bills. He is ready to vote on them. So am I. I hope the leadership will attempt…

I will try to put a question mark after it. The House has a bill. We, on this side, agreed on it, and we had a vote in the Senate not too long ago. We got 59 votes; we lack 1 vote, or we would have had a budget. I hope we have another…

Absolutely. The House has not passed the appropriations bills. The House Appropriations Committee--no fault of the Republican chairman of that committee and others on the committee--has not passed, has not reported out all of the 13 bills…

Well, I suppose if there were a good case made. But the good case has already been made to the contrary that we need that $9 billion more.

Somewhere between $100 billion and $200 billion, chicken feed. That is nothing, he says. That is nothing. Yet $9 billion is like a bone in the throat to this OMB Director down here, Mitch Daniels, and the President and the administration…

I urge Senators to cast their vote today. I know most of the other side, if not all on the other side of the aisle, will probably vote against this amendment. We are going to lose on this amendment, but I thank those who have spoken for…

I will tell you what is delaying the work of homeland security--the intransigence on the part of the President. He had an opportunity to sign an appropriations bill that would provide $2.5 billion for homeland security--a total of $5.1…

Over the next 13 months, Congress would walk away to the sidelines. So under my amendment, we are not going to say: Mr. President, here is the bill. You take it. Just report back to us from time to time and let us know how it is working…

I know what the Senator is saying. We all know the Parliamentarian gives guidance, but I hope when the Senator talks about the Parliamentarian and the aid which the Parliamentarian gives, we are talking about the ruling of the Chair. It is…

But my friends on that side did not vote for cloture. Whatever the vote was at that time, they did not vote for cloture. So they have not helped me to get on with the appropriations bills. Consequently, I made a generous offer at that…

When you said, ``We have them all blocked,'' that kind of caught my ear. And I am wondering about these appropriations bills. Somebody has them all blocked. Here is my friend from Montana who is the ranking member. We have been here at our…

And before I pose the question, I preface it by saying this: I can appreciate what the distinguished Senator is trying to do. The other day I said to him, on the floor: If you will remove your amendment here, if we can vote for cloture, on…

Let me just say right here that the people who are providing security for our country, and are on the job for all of us, are on the job right now. They are out there when we are sleeping, and they are good people. They are very dedicated…

He is an excellent lawyer. I think he has made from his point of view, certainly, an excellent statement in support of a bill that he does not like. He does not like this bill. He did not vote for this bill when it was in the committee…

How do we know those agencies are among the 28 agencies that are going to be brought into the Department?

I know. These charts here, all this work the distinguished chairman is talking about, all these items, these agencies that he has on these charts, these are not the people underneath that are created by title I, are they?