one of the other things I did just a few days ago--and I hope my colleagues will consider doing the same--was to visit some of the Guard and Reserve units that are being activated. When I asked for the opportunity to go to Scott Air Force…

I believe there are over 600 Amtrak stations across this country. They are putting in place the kind of security we want, to make certain that no terrorist will see a target of opportunity in the metroliners or Amtrak trains that…

I recall a few days after this tragedy making a telephone call to a friend of mine, a very successful business executive in Chicago, just to ask him how things were going. He said to me on the phone what this article said. He said: The…

I hope that during the course of considering antiterrorism legislation we don't stop short of giving new authority to collect information but also give to the FBI, CIA, and other Federal law enforcement agencies the infrastructure to use…

today I rise with 31 of my Senate colleagues to submit a resolution condemning bigotry and violence toward Sikh-Americans. Last week, Amrith Kau Mago, a student at George Washington University, from my home State of Illinois, came to my…

I rise today to reflect on some of the experiences I have had over the last 2 weeks, and also the activity of the U.S. Congress, and in particular the Senate. It is hard to believe it has only been 2 weeks and 1 day since the tragedy of…

in September 1999 the Department of Justice sued the tobacco industry to recover federal costs associated with diseases caused by smoking. The suit alleges that the tobacco companies engaged in a campaign since 1953 to defraud and deceive…

I thank the chairman on this important appropriations bill. So there is nothing in this appropriations bill which in any way inhibits the vigorous pursuit of this lawsuit?

Today we know our duty as Americans. We will bury our dead, we will comfort our wounded, we will honor our heroes, and we will protect and defend our Nation. We will stand as one against the treachery visited on America on Tuesday…

It was also a time to be back in our States to travel around, to listen and to hear what is on the minds of the people we represent, and for a few of us a chance to perhaps take a few days to go overseas and to be part of the global dialog…

I rise today to kick off National Immunization Awareness Month by introducing legislation to expand access to affordable childhood and adolescent immunizations. I am pleased that my colleague, Senator Reed, joins me in this initiative…

I voted for NAFTA, but I voted for it with the understanding that we could impose the same health and safety standards on companies and countries exporting to the United States that we impose on American companies; that that would be fair…

this past Spring thousands of students across our Nation donned their caps and gowns and received their high school diplomas as their proud parents and family members looked on. This is an important milestone in the lives of both the…

I will fight for any Senator's right to offer an amendment, and also to debate it and bring it to a vote. That is what a legislative body is all about. What we have seen for the past week is a slow dance. There are people who just do not…

I want to say a word or two, in closing, about the effort that has been made by the President's commission to strengthen Social Security. I hope this commission is going to be more objective in the way they deal with the Social Security…

historians and political scientists will find this a very interesting morning debate in the Senate. Over the next few months, they ought to take a look at what primarily Republican politicians and the President are saying and mark it as a…

What the Senator is seeking, as I understand it, is at least the enforcement that Senator Murray has included in this Transportation appropriation bill, which includes, if I am not mistaken--and I stand to be corrected if I am--that we…

We all encourage a free market economy and bargaining, but we don't want to bargain health and safety. We draw a line there.

I hope she believes, as I do, that the chair of this important Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Murray, has included very valuable language in this legislation which will establish some standards once and for all in terms of Mexican…

of all the people who live in America who might have been considered for this position, I find it curious this man, John Graham, is the choice of President Bush to head up a sensitive office, this office which literally will make a…

The bill includes $1.8 million for the maintenance and support of the new e-mail system that is to be implemented beginning in January 2002. In addition, there is $6 million available in the current fiscal year that will be used for the…

I will accept this amendment this evening, but as I made it clear to the Senator from Pennsylvania, I do not believe this is necessary. We appropriated about $8 million a year for Senate mailing, and the Senators did not use it. They…

I will tell you about dioxin. I am not a scientist, and I don't pretend to be. I am a liberal arts lawyer who has practiced politics and political science for a long time. But let me tell you what I have learned about dioxin. Dioxin is a…

These corporate clients came to Professor Graham not to find ways to increase regulation on their businesses but just for the opposite, so that he can provide through his center a scientific basis for resisting Government regulation in the…

I do not quarrel with the fact that John Graham is capable of understanding the value of a dollar. What I quarrel with is the question of whether he is capable of understanding the value of sound science and the value of human life. That…