We're in a mess there.

How can we explain that we didn't meet the most basic requirement when it came to body armor, helicopter equipment, and armored Humvees to protect our troops?

I just hope the Federal Government will set an example.

It is unfortunate, and I hope to change soon, the fact that activated Guard and Reserve Federal employees don't receive the same type of consideration from their employer as many in the private sector.

But the question is, Are we superb back here in Washington?

And I want to make sure--maybe you've answered this, but I want to make certain I understand it--where will the C-40s be stationed, and what unit will they be assigned?

May I ask you another question?

I don't believe what you have issued is consistent with the Geneva Convention.

It is unfortunate that a million acts of kindness and goodwill and bravery by our troops have been overshadowed by the shameful acts at the prison in Iraq.

I can tell you when these two snipers were moving around the area, ordinary families were living in fear. They had a sniper rifle and they were killing innocent people. Some 13 were killed and 6 were injured. After this terrible sniper…

Clearly, if he is going to oppose this amendment offered by the Senator from New Jersey, then he is doing it without sympathy for the 54 law enforcement officers who are killed each year in the line of duty with guns.

I will say this to the Senator from Idaho: It is hard for me to imagine, to believe that you believe that a lawsuit brought by that police officer or his family for being shot in the line of duty is a junk lawsuit as you have characterized…

I ask the Senator: Did he not say this bill has never gone through a committee for hearings and for our close scrutiny in determining exactly what the impact would be?

I think he is accurate in his description of what we have been doing in the last couple of days, which is trying to not provide for the public interest but to protect special interests, and not to provide individual citizens a right…

If I may ask the Senator a further question, if he will yield for a question, is it my understanding if we pass this bill that individuals--for example, the victims of the District of Columbia snipers--who are going after gun dealers who…

This bill which is pending before the Senate addresses a very serious national issue of medical malpractice. Medical malpractice insurance premiums have increased in my State of Illinois and across the Nation. Because of those increases, a…

The medical malpractice premiums in parts of your State and parts of my State have reached record high levels. These premiums are forcing my good doctors in Illinois to retire, move away to another State or to an area that is friendlier…

I suggest the best place to start is not on the floor of the Senate but for a group, on a bipartisan basis, to try to come up with an honest answer to this issue and bring it to the floor and stand together to try to pass this bill in a…

Let me just note a few things about it. It is entitled ``Running a Hospital Like a Factory, in a Good Way.'' The article tells a story of a hospital in suburban St. Louis, the SSM St. Joseph Health Center. It is a very complimentary…

I don't believe this is a constructive effort that leads us to a solution to a national problem. This, instead, is a bill being called for one reason only: To get a rollcall. It is a bill being called today to put Senators on the spot…

I commend the leader for his statement this morning and ask him the following: If the Bush administration is now telling us that tax cuts for the wealthy are good for America, if they are now telling us that outsourcing jobs from the…

last night a group of Senators went out for dinner at Walter Reed Hospital with the soldiers who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom are undergoing important medical treatment and rebuilding their lives and strength to…

That is right, he misspoke and, as a result, he was returned to the private sector. Now we see his predecessor, Mr. Mankiw, who now has misspoken, but we have his report. President Bush sent his report to Congress and he said outsourcing…

I remember it. In addition to some other comments in the book, it was the most graphic illustration that this administration is insensitive to the deficits and debt they are creating. I also recall in that same book Paul O'Neill…

One of the Presidential candidates, one of our colleagues, refers to two Americas, an America for the wealthy and an America for everyone else. What the Senator has just described is what I hear. People who really believed in the American…