I say in response, through the Chair to the Senator from Colorado, if we don't extend these Federal renewable energy tax credits, America could lose 76,000 jobs in the wind industry, 40,000 jobs in the solar industry. The bill the…

The first topic is the issue of the price of gasoline. I don't need to show this chart to people to remind them what is happening. Beginning with the Bush administration when the President was sworn into office, the average price for a…

Last Friday, five startling things happened to our economy. The futures price for a barrel of crude oil rose above $139, an alltime record. It increased over $10 in 1 day, and the increase in price on Thursday and Friday was the largest…

My response is that we are on another bill now, while we are waiting for cloture to ripen on the global warming bill. It is our intention to move directly into the debate that you have just indicated. We have to deal with energy pricing in…

let me say that at this moment we are on Thursday of this workweek with the possibility and likelihood of a cloture vote tomorrow morning in the Senate. If one looks at the business of the Senate this week, it is a good thing we are not…

time and time again we are told by the Republican side, if we could just drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, all of our prayers would be answered and gasoline would be $1.50 a gallon, people would stop complaining, and…

I liked Craig Thomas. We served in the House together and in the Senate. When they had his funeral service, I made a point of joining many of my colleagues to make the trip out to his beloved Wyoming to meet his neighbors and supporters…

I am pleased to acknowledge a significant milestone this week in Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. On Wednesday, June 4, the International Olympic Committee announced that it had selected Chicago as one of…

The Record speaks for itself. First, the Republicans insisted on the entire 30 hours, that the 30 hours be set aside for general debate on the bill before we could reach an amendment. We gave them their 30 hours for general debate and…

It is hard to believe how much time we wasted today when we could have been considering the global warming bill and passing and considering important amendments. Now we find ourselves past midnight, after wasting hour after hour, when the…

first, I extend my gratitude to Senator Boxer for her extraordinary leadership on this issue, a bipartisan issue, with Senator Lieberman, Senator Warner, and so many others on both sides of the aisle. In the history of our country and of…

I rise today to honor two constituents, Dominic and Brenda Randazzo, who have spent much of their lives giving back to their community. Dominic and Brenda are a remarkable couple. Through 45 years of marriage, three children and seven…

What we are considering on the floor of the Senate is not normal business, this is emergency spending. President Bush has come to Congress and said: We have an emergency in Iraq. Set aside whatever you are doing and deal with this…

I rise to address the importance of the nutrition assistance title of the farm bill. The bill goes a long way toward ensuring that families in America will have food on their table, even when times are tough. The bill also clarifies that…

in the opening pages of his acclaimed biography, ``Master of the Senate,'' Robert Caro describes Lyndon Johnson in his prime, as majority leader. He recalls how LBJ would come barreling through those swinging double doors in the Democratic…

I also want to say that this has been a week when we have achieved a few things in the Senate but not nearly enough. We started off the Senate with a historic occasion, one which is not likely to be remembered by great historians but…

I hope we can honor their service, not only by providing for them while they are at war but providing for them as well when they come home. I am sure the Senator joins me in believing that a new GI bill which will provide for those…

I rise this evening to speak for a few moments about another hold that has been placed on critically important legislation. Anyone who follows what we do here on the floor of the Senate or in the House of Representatives knows that many of…

this past Sunday--Mother's Day--Barbara Mahany, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, wrote a touching front-page story about Rosa Trevino, a mother who never gave up on her daughter, Lucy. Born with a rare genetic degenerative disease…

This column points out that the United States spent almost $7,000 per person on medical care last year--$6,697 per capita. That is the highest in the world. It is 20 percent more per person than the next highest spending nation of…

free market fundamentalism tells us that all we have to do is get Government out of the way and the miraculous powers of competition and supply and demand will solve all our problems. This is a cardinal principle of the administration now…

It has now been 10 days since the devastating tropical cyclone hit the country of Burma. The cyclone, which brought sustained winds of 130 miles an hour, with gusts as high as 160 miles an hour, really caused widespread destruction across…

I can't think of another issue that has been in the forefront across America for a longer period than the cost of gasoline. It goes beyond that, obviously, to diesel fuel and jet fuel costs. We see it every day. You drive down the road…

I rise in support of the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007. After Hurricane Katrina, I had a chance to meet some of the survivors who were displaced by the storm and ended up in Illinois. Many had lost their homes, their…

I rise today to mark the anniversary of one global tragedy and to call attention to another, a tragedy that is occurring even at this moment. Fourteen years ago this week, the world stood by as 800,000 Rwandans were brutally murdered…