Johnny Isakson

Both the Senator's bill and the bill we have introduced and the added ethical criteria you placed in this year's bill prohibit the fertilization of eggs for the purpose of research.

Any doctor who did that would be out of his mind because they would know the implantation could not result in a viable fetus and ultimately a child.

This is budget neutral and kid friendly. It allows children to have access to health care and dentistry, and health care and mental health. It is a positive move at the expense of no one and for the benefit of children.

At the outset, let me say as a rookie in the Senate, I add and echo everything that was said about Senator Cochran. He is truly one to whom all of us who are new to this body should subscribe and hope in time we could equal his…

I, personally, along with Senator Chambliss, am very grateful for the opportunity to confirm this outstanding jurist. I also wish to say that Lisa Godbey Wood brings to the bench for the Federal courts of the United States of America the…

I submitted an amendment that ended up being amendment No. 1. The amendment simply said that before any provision of this act that grants legal status to someone who is in America illegally takes effect, the Secretary of Homeland Security…

The health, safety and welfare of people are threatened. They are threatened by an act this Congress passed that had no intention to threaten them.

I wanted to express to him my grateful appreciation for his service to the Senate, not just the people of Ohio but the people of this great country. One of the great joys I have had as a Member of the Senate... was to watch him join the…

The recent high prices, although they have come down some in Georgia, that people are paying at the gas pumps reflect our dependence on oil.

It's very important that as a Congress and as leaders that we emphasize the importance for us to get our dependence on foreign oil as minimum as possible and diversify to the maximum extent the sources of energy in this Country.

The economy of our State is growing, but we risk losing all that with the high price of energy.

Facts are stubborn things. We can argue about a lot of things, but treating people right is something Senator Chambliss has been doing in Georgia, what I have grown up in Georgia doing, and I am sure what the Senator from Massachusetts…

If you are making that loan to someone, your underwriting, I think, should encourage them when they spend that money to rebuild in a more responsible way.

My only point is this. You make loans to cover that amount above what is insured.

I appreciate you calling this hearing today.

Before I make the remarks, let me reaffirm my commitment and my support for John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. Like every Member of this Senate, I recognize the importance of that appointment. I recognize the concerns many of…

75 years ago today in 1929 Delta Airlines flew its first six-passenger aircraft from Monroe, Louisiana to Dallas, Texas, inaugurating a great company and a great contributor to the United States of America. Begun as a crop dusting company…

I, first of all, associate myself with all the kind remarks that have been made about Charlie... we have been blessed to have a man who has the excellent commitment to fairness, integrity, responsibility and the preservation of this…

This bill is about the safety of the American people and a failure to adopt this conference committee would be turning the back on the safety of the American people. This bill puts into statute the conference committee report, the…

Whenever a conference committee appropriates new moneys, expands a program or adds a program that was not incorporated within the House and Senate bills as they went through their normal procedure in this House, that those programs be…

What this bill does, it opens up an opportunity for employers who have independent contractors as their employees, to take the benefits of pooling and provide for those independent contractors the benefit that ERISA guarantees the…

I want to clear something up. I am on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and I have great regard for the gentleman's work in the Committee on Ways and Means, but is it not true that the legislation includes both the Boehner and…

What was not entered into the Record were the actions of the CEO of Delta Airlines, and I will not read it all, but I would like to read the following things: . . . who affirmatively, instead of accepting the compensation reduced his…

It is unconstitutional and illegal in the State of Georgia for the State to spend any tax money on athletic facilities. Those all have to be done either privately by booster clubs in the secondary schools, and in post-secondary schools by…

The only point I am trying to make for the benefit of the people in the United States of America that may be listening is that by continuing the appropriations that we made last year this year, until we resolve this budget, we are not…