Rick Allen

Ex-felons. I don't think the proponents want to go so far as felons but ex-felons, which would be, I think, a nightmare and insulting, as well.

Mr. Chairman, current campaign finance laws were written to curb the abuses of another generation. Thirty years later, a new plague has infected our Nation's elections, soft money. This money, these unlimited contributions, are used to run…

I conclude by saying very strongly that we need to adapt our tax policy and properly and logically provide similar tax benefits for the fire, rescue, and police personnel who are serving here in our homeland. This is where these terrorist…

The designation of a terrorist attack zone would be made by the President. Once you get past the rescue mission, the immediate response, and when the zone is designated a recovery scene, the tax exemption ends. The intent is for this to…

This is a great development. We have to say that maybe finally with the collapse of Enron there is a recognition in this country that big money and politics is not a combination that is healthy for ordinary Americans, and I hope that we…

As far as family farmers are concerned, I am glad for Virginia family farmers in the peanut business that this law is not going to be changed before October of 2002. Changing those laws would have been devastating to those family farmers…

The point of all this is the people from Illinois can figure this out themselves. Do they really need us to ratify their agreements?

I want to begin by referring to the economic stimulus package that passed this House 2 weeks ago by a vote of 218 to 214, only a four-vote margin. If any two people in the majority had switched their votes, that bill would not have passed…

I hope that message goes out to States and localities. Just because this has lapsed, please do not rush to tax the Internet access or impose discriminatory taxes.

I share the desire to make sure employees who are out of work are also taken care of with both health and unemployment benefits. I am working with Senator Carnahan of Missouri to make sure that this is made part of the overall package. I…

I salute the Happy Hooligans and all those Air Guard pilots who scrambled to our Nation's defense, with complete risk to their lives, possibly having to give their lives to protect others. They will be called upon again, undoubtedly, in…

Words are inadequate to express the agony we feel today for those who lost their lives yesterday, for their families, and for this country. But we will recover, rebuild and move on. In the dark days of late 1941, it was Winston Churchill…

I had a couple of thoughts that were triggered by the gentleman's comments. First of all, the gentleman from Wisconsin is correct. It was the Republicans insisting on using CBO numbers and not OMB numbers because they said then the CBO…

I ask the Senator if he will yield for a further question. There was an assertion that this will affect some of the bonding and expected amounts of money. The Senator is saying after the 2002 analysis, or the survey for wastewater monies…

I thank the Transportation Appropriations chair and ranking member for their willingness to work with us on this issue and for their leadership in crafting a bill that increases transportation funding across the entire country. I also…

As a Virginian and as an American, I am proud to rise again today in support of the confirmation of Judge Roger Gregory. I am also proud to see that Members of both parties in the Senate and President Bush have risen above the past…

Amendment No. 4 offered by Mr. Allen: At the end of title VII, insert after the last section (preceding any short title) the following section: Sec. 7____. None of the amounts made available in this Act for the Food and Drug Administration…

This amendment we are working on in a bipartisan manner is supported by parents and the technology community, and it will be beneficial to the schoolchildren all across America.

I will simply say the compassionate speeches we have heard are interesting and certainly true. Earlier today we had Senator Kennedy's amendment, which will give billions of additional dollars to localities for teachers so that children can…

Let me say in a few seconds--and I want to yield the remainder of the time to the senior Senator from Virginia--the Senator from Kansas has it exactly right. We want to have an insurance policy for the people of this country, the…

I thought that Democrats on our side of the aisle made the case very well today for a more balanced approach so that some money was there, both to protect against the uncertainty of future projections but some funds there to pay down the…

The one thing that is absolutely clear about this tax bill that the Republicans brought to the floor today is they brought it to the floor before the needs of our veterans, the needs of our kids, the needs of our transportation…

Now for one of the few times in our history as a country, we are sitting with a surplus, driven by the hard work of the American people and the fact that this economy has been growing extraordinarily rapidly by historical standards over…

But in truth if you pass a tax cut, as we did today, if the tax cut passed today by the House Republican majority becomes law, where will we ever in the next 10 years find the money to meet our responsibilities created when the Federal…

I think if there is one message that the American people sent to our country's leaders last November, it was this: The politics of personal destruction in our country must end. Sadly, there are some leaders of organized interest groups who…