Saxby Chambliss

If the Senator will yield very briefly, I say the passion that the Senator from Virginia has relative to the men and women in our Armed Forces has been exhibited in our committee time and again. It is pretty obvious to see why. It is…

I am willing to consider your proposals as part of the reauthorization of the Commodity Exchange Act. In addition, you have my assurance that I will work with the leadership to accommodate the Senators' desire to address these issues when…

What is the time remaining? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Georgia has 11 minutes. The Senator from Massachusetts has 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Would the Senator not agree a fundamental difference is, under your bill, the employee is the one who makes that attestation. Whereas, under our bill, it is the employer--the American employer--says: I need you. Under your bill, the…

Where under our bill they come in and an employer says: I need this employee, and I want to make application for the H2-A or the blue card.

Is it not true this is a fundamental difference in our two amendments? Under your amendment, the employee or the illegal alien comes in and says: I worked here for those 100 hours last year or 2 years ago.

Is it true that 1 hour is defined in the Fair Labor Standards Act, or 1 day's work is defined as 1 hour, and it is actually 100 days?

Is it not true, under your bill, an individual can get the temporary adjustment status after working 100 hours?

He is never a permanent citizen as he becomes under your bill after about 2\1/2\ weeks.

That is not true because if his employer ever released him from his employment, he has to notify the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor, and that individual must go back to where he came from. Or if he secures a----

That is absolutely not the case. There is no way, under the Chambliss-Kyl amendment, anyone, anybody who is here illegally and who gets a blue card by virtue of the employer of that individual requesting the blue card, ever becomes…

Does the Chambliss-Kyl amendment not take the current H2-A program, which is very cumbersome and requires a lot of paperwork and requires the adverse effect wage rate to be paid, and streamline that program to where it is more easily…

I ask the Senator, doesn't the AgJOBS bill, as well as the Chambliss-Kyl amendment, recognize there is a need in this country for agricultural workers to do the job that is not being done by American workers today, and we are not…

Having heard the words of the majority leader relative to the delegation that was in Rome last week for the burial of Pope John Paul II, I think all Americans, as well as every other individual around the world, were truly moved by the…

All of the sound science says that the Secretary of Agriculture has made the correct decision and that the border should be opened with Canada for the importation of beef and cattle under 30 months of age. This is not a health issue. It is…

I do rise in support of Alberto Gonzales to be confirmed as the next Attorney General for the United States. I want to respond to some of the ridiculous accusations of those who are opposed to this confirmation, and talk about some of the…

Rather than creating this separate DNI with the CIA, FBI, DIA and every other agency still in place, why doesn't it make more sense to bring all of the intelligence community under one umbrella

Under your bill, who would brief the president?

As a member of the Intelligence Committee, I deal with classified documents every single day. We know better, and Sandy Berger knew better.

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

I wish to take the opportunity as somebody who spent a large part of my life in the mountains of east Tennessee to commend the Senator. I appreciate all of his hard work, his dedication, and the proposal he came up with relative to the…

Well, that is encouraging.

This is a fundamental issue that we have to resolve, and I know under your leadership, Mr. Chairman, we will.

I'm very pleased to hear you're doing this.

I am in favor of giving the Reserve components the same robust responsibilities and demanding of them the same level of performance as the Active Force.