we have a difference of opinion. Senator Santorum and others have said, wait a minute, we have doctor statements that say just the opposite. Some doctors and some doctor associations say this procedure is never needed, never necessary. Yet…

I will tell you, though, it troubles me that we end this debate on a day when we had a chance to offer across America health insurance to pregnant mothers who have no health insurance, so that they could have the best chance to give birth…

I say a commendation to the Senator from West Virginia. Thank you for your leadership in bringing us to this debate. I ask you, to make certain this point is clear on the record, is it the position of the Senator from West Virginia that we…

It is certainly reviewable. I say to the Senator from Pennsylvania, having sat across the desk from many physicians whom I represented, and sued, believe me, trust me, they are not going to stick their neck out, put their medical license…

I might also ask the Senator from West Virginia, is the point he is making that if we stay working with the United Nations on a common plan to disarm Iraq and if it fails and we ultimately join with the other nations around the world to…

This may be one of the only amendments to be offered which brings together people who don't see eye to eye, usually, on this issue. It is a good-faith effort on the part of myself and the cosponsors to bring this amendment forward in an…

If you want to protect women who have been raped who are going into the emergency rooms--can you imagine the emotional problem they are facing right then and there? If you want to protect them so they can have emergency contraception and…

I came to Congress many years ago personally opposed to abortion. It was part of my faith tradition, part of my personal value system. I came here to find that many of the people I assumed would be my allies opposed abortion but had other…

I hope you listen carefully to what the Senator from Pennsylvania just entered into the Record. He entered into the Record an opinion of another doctor which said the woman who faced that crisis pregnancy should have done it differently. I…

returning to Illinois this weekend, as I am sure my colleagues did in their home States, it is clear that we are in dire economic straits in America. It should be our highest priority, next to national defense and security, to put this…

Today I rise before the Senate in support of a Senate Resolution submitted today by my colleague Senator Specter. This resolution designates March 25 of this year as 'Greek Independence Day: A day of celebration for Greek and American…

I would like to move the spotlight of the comments on the Senate floor this morning from the international scene to the domestic scene, and point to the front page headline of the New York Times, Wednesday, March 5: ``U.S. Budget Deficit…

the resolution of ratification we have before us on the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, also known as the Moscow Treaty, is a step forward but in many ways it is a…

May I also ask the Senator from Indiana, since we live in the 21st century in fear that fissile material and nuclear weapons will be transferred either openly or covertly to countries that will misuse them, why would the Senator from…

I think the resolution that he and other colleagues bring before us is certainly one that should be considered seriously for those who are committed to human rights.

I hope the Senator from Indiana will view this amendment as instructive and as friendly and not as adversarial to his goals. I took heart from the statements he made in meetings I attended about the need for all of us to be more sensitized…

I am convinced of the genuineness and commitment of both the Senator from Indiana and the Senator from Delaware to the issue of nonproliferation, of transparency in our agreement with any nation when it comes to nuclear weapons, I am going…

I ask my colleague from Delaware, since I am taking his language from the START treaty and have venerated it, deified it, given it all of the credence any Senator could ask, whether he would be kind enough to join me.

Am I right in my premise that this SORT treaty, this Moscow Treaty, does not destroy the nuclear warheads but simply calls for them to be stored, set aside, not in a deployable mode, so they, frankly, are at least within the grasp of…

Today marks the 166th birthday of the city of Chicago, and it would have been the 96th birthday of a great Chicago legend, Eleanor ``Sis'' Daley. I would like to talk about each briefly. On March 4, 1837, Chicago was incorporated as a city…

May I ask the Senator from New York--I think it is important in this debate that we take this general and theoretical analysis of judges and their impact on America and try to make it something closer to home so the average person…

If this is not an ego trip between titanic Senate egos as to who is going to prevail, I ask the Senator from New York, what is the agenda here? Why would the Republicans in the new majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee change the…

I ask the Senator this basic question because there are some trying to follow this debate. Being lawyers and having been on Capitol Hill for a while working in this environment, we have a tendency to speak in terms that perhaps the average…

I asked her the following: Do you think the Supreme Court's most important decisions-- Brown, Miranda and Roe--are consistent with strict constructionism?

This was amazing legislation because it was so strongly bipartisan. Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, then Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, they came through and said, on a bipartisan basis, let us extend freedoms and opportunities to people in…