This chart indicates what we can hope to bring out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I want to make sure that those who are following this debate with rapt attention notice that on the amount we hope to glean from the Arctic National…

It is very gracious of the Senator from Alaska to help me with my metaphors. I thank the Senator from Alaska. I stand corrected. The use of the word ``wilderness'' is inappropriate. It is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I do believe…

this afternoon many Members of Congress, many people across America will be headed to airports, and at the airport checkpoint they will be asked to show some form of a photo identification as well as a ticket. That is now the custom in…

I rise today in honor of Black History Month, a 76-year tradition recognizing and celebrating the contributions of African-Americans throughout our history. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves, earned his bachelor's and…

about 35 years ago as a college student I was seated in this Senate gallery because there was a historic event about to take place. Senator Robert Kennedy, of New York, was to announce a very important statement about the Vietnam war. I…

I may be mistaken, but I thought this bill not only created a commission, but created a Federal grant system to do just what we are talking about, to modernize election systems across America so they are more trustworthy and consistent…

the debate we just heard is probably a replay of many arguments over the Voting Rights Act of 1965: It is a matter of States' rights. It isn't the Congress's responsibility. This is too big a job. But we decided in the 1960s that the…

The simple fact according to the Caltech-MIT study is that nationwide the No. 1 voting system which voided ballots cast for President in the year 2000 was the punchcard system. There was no other system as bad as the punchcard system for…

In your bill, as currently written, it says if people have overvoted and spoiled their ballots, we will notify them in jurisdictions that don't have paper ballots, that don't have punchcards and in States such as Washington and Oregon…

If you accept the premise of the bill you brought to us that this is an incontrovertible constitutional right, think about what you have just said. Is this really equal justice under the law, that we have a slot machine culture when it…

Regretfully, I am going to join Senator Dodd in opposing this amendment. We had a carefully crafted compromise on this whole issue of whether or not to, by either direction or indirection, require certain voting machines in jurisdictions…

If we accept what the Senator has said, that it is really up to every State to modernize their system and to make it a more trustworthy system, I have two questions for Senator Dodd: First, why did he preface this bill by saying this is an…

let me at the outset commend my colleague, Senator Dodd. This was an amazingly difficult issue to tackle because when he decided to tackle it, America was in flames over the last Presidential election. There were strong feelings among…

Let me counsel my friend and colleague from Connecticut to follow his heart. Is it not true in this bill with the Bond exception that we do say to jurisdictions across America that we want them to tell people if they have overvoted and…

on November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a military order authorizing the use of military commissions to prosecute individuals who may be engaged in activities related to the subject of our campaign against terrorism. The initial public…

I rise to introduce the Global Coordination of HIV/AIDS Response Act, known as the Global CARE Act. HIV/AIDS is a national security issue, an economic issue, a health and safety issue, and most importantly a moral issue. It is for these…

This inhumane treatment has a direct bearing on the physical and mental health of dogs in these facilities. Often, after these puppies join a family, they turn out to have serious health and psychological problems that cause them pain…

On January 12, Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan spoke to his people at a moment of great danger. Half a million Indian troops were massing on the border over the contentious issue of Kashmir, unresolved for over 50 years, and the December…

I submit for the Record an article that ran in The Washington Post yesterday about the discrimination that individuals with a history of mental illness face in our current health insurance market. The story documents the dilemma of…

My goal is to make certain that farmers make decisions based on the marketplace, not based on the farm bill, particularly when it comes to that land that has not been in production. That is what this amendment seeks to achieve. It is in no…

this is an amendment to the economic stimulus bill, and it relates to unemployment compensation. There are many arguments that I will make about the justice and fairness of this amendment, but that is not where I am going to start. I want…

This is not a State rights issue. It is all Federal money. The Governor of Oklahoma can decline the money. They do not have to help the 78,000 unemployed workers in Oklahoma who would be benefited by this. They can exert their State…

this is part of the economic stimulus package. It is an amendment agreed to by both sides, Democrats and Republicans, to extend the unemployment insurance benefits to those States which will provide protection, expanded coverage for…

I can't believe the circumstance is any different in Oklahoma. I have to believe the hospitals in rural Oklahoma and Illinois are facing the same problems. That is why this amendment offered by Senators Daschle and Baucus as an effort to…

Is it not correct, then, your bill would have abolished the alternative minimum tax, a tax paid by corporations that otherwise have no Federal tax liability prospectively in the future?