I look forward to working with you and my Subcommittee colleagues on the fiscal year 2005 Agriculture budget.

I don't believe that every natural substance needs to be subject to pre-market safety testing.

I want to see progress toward protecting the public from dangerous supplements continue.

It has been 4 months, and we still cannot answer that basic question: what was the ambulatory status of this diseased cow?

How can the FDA effectively protect the public if it doesn't know when a product is causing harm?

It is absolutely necessary that we know when a product is harming people.

I have been pushing for a single food safety agency to combine the 12 different agencies of the Federal Government that have some mandate when it comes to food safety.

this morning when I left my apartment on Capitol Hill, I bought a Washington Post. The first thing that caught my eye was a front page story that will be repeated in newspapers across America and probably other sources. The headline says…

It is an important bill for business, for America, and for jobs. But the reason this bill has not been voted on is because we on this side of the aisle believe that Senators from both parties should stand up and cast their votes and take a…

We are asking, on the floor of the Senate, for an up-or-down vote for Members to be counted on the question of whether the Bush administration will, for the first time in the history of the law, restrict overtime pay to American workers…

This editorial raises the following question: [C]an you guess how many schools would be playing [in the NCAA men's tournament] if there was a requirement that they had to graduate at least half of their athletes [in a 6-year period of…

we face a serious medical malpractice problem in Illinois. I have had meetings in the area where I was born with doctors and most recently with hospital administrators. The recent medical malpractice insurance premium increases for this…

Mr. Jackson says, let's take a close look and see how many are graduating who are minorities, African Americans. He says: This is March Madness . . . but now NCAA has quietly adjusted the graduation rates to satisfy 'a new interpretation'…

on December 9, 2003, we lost our colleague, U.S. Senator Paul Simon, a great public servant and a great friend. At the age of 19, Paul Simon became the nation's youngest editor- publisher when he accepted a Lion's Club challenge to save…

the Senator from Arizona is on to an interesting concept and I will offer a second-degree amendment to expand a good idea. The amendment which I will offer will suggest we can also offset the expenses of veterans health care by profits…

I was not aware of that. And if I am not mistaken, I think the Senator from Vermont modeled his amendment after a World War II amendment on profiteering. It is amazing to me we struck the language on profiteering in the omnibus bill, and…

Greenville, MI, a town of about 9,000 people, if I remember correctly, and over 2,000 jobs are going to be lost.

take a look at the annual growth rate of private sector jobs under President Bush. You have to go all the way back to President Hoover to see such a low growth rate, which had a negative growth rate of over 4 percent. Under President…

So, 2,700 jobs. I am glad Senator Stabenow reminds me. Electrolux makes Frigidaires. They are moving to Mexico. We asked them whether they sold Frigidaires in Mexico. No. They are going to sell them in the United States. More manufacturing…

Was it not during the last 2 weeks that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who has been Chairman under both Democratic and Republican Parties, testified before the House of Representatives, I believe the Budget Committee…

If I might continue, in the same book, it notes Chairman Greenspan and Treasury Secretary O'Neill had several ideas. One of them was a trigger which said there will not be any tax cuts if the surplus disappears. The surplus is long gone…

this is an important debate because it is a debate about promises that have been made and promises that have not been kept. Many Members can recall President Bush, when he came to office, said he had a plan for putting America's economy…

You pick the town, you pick the spot on Main Street, and you pick the first person walking by and ask them the following question: Is it a good thing for America that good-paying jobs are now going overseas, that businesses are outsourcing…

One hundred thirty billion dollars. Let me give a footnote to this conversation. Ten percent of all of the Chinese exports to the United States, $13 billion worth of Chinese goods, go to one company in the United States: Wal-Mart. So when…

Wouldn't it also serve to protect any Americans who become prisoners?