Sam Brownback

If we were to increase the CAFE limits, there's no doubt that brings an environmental and a greenhouse-gas benefit.

I think there are things that we can do to positively affect our net national carbon emissions.

I think it's an important issue. It's a tough issue.

I wish to address the body on an issue of some significant importance to the country. First, good business was done by the Senate today dealing with the accounting situation, the financial trust crisis that we have going on in our country…

I think the wise course of action at this time is for us, overall, to have a moratorium on human cloning of all types for a 2-year time period. This will enable us to sort out what people really think and where this science would take us…

Yes, I am very familiar with that. The Patent Office has continued to articulate that position. That is why I stated that there is a question on this, because the Patent Office is stating that issue based upon the 13th amendment of the…

I am hopeful we can take up this issue on the floor and that it can be considered before the body, allowing people to be able to consider this. There are a number of people who have been harmed greatly, and family members have been killed…

This is another strengthening amendment. We have teeth in this provision. They get bigger with the Byrd amendment. I think that is a good provision for us on the prearrival of aircraft coming into this country. For whatever reason, we have…

If I could respond to that question, within the President's budget is allocated $742 million in the first year for the implementation of this bill. It is within the President's budget. It is believed that the budget needs for the first…

No. I would disagree, if I could, with my colleague. The appropriate way to proceed is authorization language, then appropriations, of course. What we are doing here is the authorization language. The President has built into his budget…

In the Philippines we have troops performing training exercises with the Philippine military. This is very important in helping to subdue a terrorist group called Abu Sayyaf. They have a couple of my constituents. They are being held by…

I want to draw attention to something that happened in my State that I think is completely wrong in the appropriations process. ... They said no to that, also.

Julie Robinson is extraordinarily well qualified. She is the right person for the job. She has served as a bankruptcy judge. I have known of her and her work for a long period of time. Her family even years ago came to Kansas as…

What about the status of the cloned embryo, that is in its genetic material identical to one that is created naturally? Whether it is created by man or created by God, they are the same entities; they are identical. Therefore, do we say…

If I can reclaim my time--I do not want to be rude-- herein lies the key, the rub of the issue: Some say you can create a cloned embryo and not implant it, with which I agree. I do not think we should implant that embryo.

If I can respond to my colleague from California, I am happy to work with her on the definition of human cloning. I object to her categorization that I am opposed to all research and just stop. That is not my position. I have strongly…

If I could, what about a moratorium? We now have a human clone out there. We have people using this technology. What about a period of a moratorium, say a 3-month or 6-month moratorium, until we can get to the issue, saying let's stop this…

I have been warning this body for months that this day was going to be here. Now it is here. We really should take up this issue. We can limit the amount of time. We can limit the amount of amendments to it. I ask why we can't proceed at…

I will point out what I am talking about in the amendments I was proposing. We had filed four of these amendments and were willing to put them into one amendment, have one vote, and have a moratorium for 1 year on several items. The…

No. This amendment would permit U.S. assistance only to that Ministry for the sole purpose you mention. It is not my intention to subvert Section 560 of the FY 2002 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. I seek only to support the reform…

I add my statement of support to what Senator Lott has said about Mike Mansfield. I had the opportunity to meet him at the Senate prayer breakfast. He was a regular attendee, a gentleman from appearance, demeanor, and actions, deep…

The Veterans Administration's funding capacity to conduct outreach, educational, and programmatic initiatives has been limited to this number so far.

Only 900 families out of the 3,000 eligible have been identified for these benefits.

I fully anticipate that President Bush will settle the issue of Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research within the context of the existing embryo research ban in the very near future, and I hope we take up the issue of cloning and…

I look forward to working with you both at the Department of Transportation, and I take pleasure in supporting both your nominations.