Yes. Mr. Payson had a very good year. Alan Wise at Coventry gets $21.6 million. This man must be really gifted if he is worth that to run a managed care company, which is now going to be in the category of companies eligible for the $10…

Represented on this chart are the compensation packages for the HMOs. This is another group that is benefiting. The $12 billion slush fund will be going to HMO companies such as these on the chart. They will leave poor and sicker people…

The reason is obvious: If Medicare can bargain on behalf of 40 million Medicare recipients, it has the bargaining power to bring down the cost of drugs for seniors. The pharmaceutical companies hate that concept, ``like the devil hates…

This, my friends and fellow colleagues, is a proposed law. It is huge. But that is not uncommon. And that should not be a reason to vote against it. The reason to vote against it is what is contained in this law, this proposal, this bill…

The fact is that there is a gap in coverage for prescription drugs built into this proposal so that the sickest seniors with the highest prescription drug costs will find some coverage on the front end of the year for their illness and…

This bill gives the last word to the Bush administration and the head of the FDA who have said categorically they are opposed to reimportation. The reason they are opposed is that it would be more competition for pharmaceutical companies…

I went to my church in Chicago with my wife--this is highly unusual in my church--as we came back from communion, and we are kneeling, an elderly man came up to me and leaned over on his way back from communion and he said: Stick with Bob…

I cannot support this bill because, frankly, it is fundamentally unfair and unjust and it is unbecoming of the Senate to offer this to America as an energy policy. When it comes to energy, this bill is a full-scale retreat. This bill fails…

I applaud you for your fairness in allowing the minority on this side of the aisle an opportunity to debate, offer amendments, to express our points of view, and bring an issue to a vote. I do not think a member of any…

let me, if I may, address another issue which is about to come before us. If you follow boxing and have watched any big championship fights, you may know that it comes at the end of the evening. During the course of the day and afternoon…

obviously, I am in opposition to this Energy bill. The Senator from New Mexico is my friend. We go nose to nose and toe to toe and fight on a lot of issues. We are in real disagreement over this bill. But I respect him and like him very…

This amendment will stop the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies funded in this bill from using the discriminatory method known as the senior death discount. Right now, heart disease, cancer, and strokes are the leading…

To reiterate, this amendment would stop the EPA and other agencies funded in this bill from using a discriminatory method of regulatory analysis known as the senior death discount. Heart disease, cancer, and strokes are the leading causes…

What we see, and I will summarize, is an effort by some to discount the lives of senior citizens in America when judging the impact of public health regulations. That has to come to an end. We have to make certain the policy we follow in…

It is customary for a Senator of a State, depending on the President's party, to be able to suggest to the White House a nominee to fill a vacancy on the Federal district judge and the Federal circuit court. That nominee is then given to…

So there is no effort to extend this beyond a reasonable period, but an effort to complete this bill for our veterans, for the Veterans Administration, before we begin the 30-hour debate.

I want to thank the bill managers for accepting the amendment that I am offering today, along with Senator Fitzgerald, to encourage further sharing of health care facilities between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Navy in North…

It is false. It is clearly false. Justice Abe Fortas, 1968; Judge Stephen Breyer, 1990; Judge Rosemary Barkett, 1994; Judge Marsha Berzon, 2000; Judge Paez, 2000. And many others. The fact is, for those who say there have never been…

I am not surprised because what we are about tonight is not the issues families care about. We are about a political script. Senator Reid of Nevada read to us this all-points bulletin that was sent out to the Senators saying: Be sure and…

Many of them I voted for anyway, understanding this is the President's prerogative to nominate people for the Federal courts. Going back to the point I made earlier, the President does not have a constitutional right to appoint Federal…

I dare say if you go to Missouri, Illinois, North Dakota, South Carolina, Georgia, or Minnesota and take the average person on the street and ask them: ``Where in the list of priorities in your life is the fact that 4 judges out of 172…

Thank you, Mr. President. Let's not forget what this is all about. Mr. President, 168 of President Bush's nominees have been approved by the Senate; 4 have not--168 to 4. That is the score. This President has 98 percent of his nominees…

I know we are coming to the breathless close of this wonderful marathon, this made-for-TV filibuster. I ask the Senator through the Chair the following question: Is the Senator aware in the early hours this morning Republican Senators from…

I rise as a cosponsor in strong support of the Syria Accountability Act. Syria plays a key role in the Mideast region and it could play a constructive role, but all too often, it has not. After September 11, Syria offered to share…

Today the city of Chicago, IL, is marking the passing of a legend. Just yesterday, Chicago, and the rest of the Nation as well, lost a giant--the famous Chicago Sun Times columnist Irv Kupcinet who died at age 91. In the city of Chicago…