Sam Brownback

I applaud my colleague from Utah for helping lead the fight against child pornography. This is an issue upon which all Senators can unite, and it is a battle we must not lose. Pornography is no longer isolated to a small segment of…

This is a product that many minors would get access to. And it has a big impact physically.

This is a simple parental notification bill which we brought up last time on the Department of Defense authorization bill and agreed to take it on last year because of desires to move the bill forward. We have worked on it a great deal…

Again, it is a legitimate question the chairman asks in these troubling areas. We don't seem to have difficulty with this in any other medical procedure a minor child would ask for, that they have to get their parents' notification. If a…

I am please to join with Chairman Specter and Senator Biden today as we introduce a bill that will have a dramatic and positive effect in the lives of individuals re-entering society after incarceration. The Second Chance Act: Community…

We're left to try to gather little pieces and shreds of evidence and do almost a 'CSI'-type of operation to try to conjecture out of that where a person will be.

every 2 years or so, an agricultural buying mission from Taiwan visits the United States, to sign letters of intent and contracts to buy billions of dollars worth of U.S. wheat, corn, soybeans and hides. As you can well imagine, this…

I rise to pay tribute to William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States. That is the title, Chief Justice of the United States. While the ceremony honoring him goes forward I think it is appropriate that we in this body…

at the end of World War II, Poland, like other Central European countries, fell behind the Iron Curtain. As the country struggled to recover from the brutal ravages of war and occupation, Soviet-backed communist elements seized the reigns…

If I could, Mr. President, and I thank my colleague from Illinois for engaging in the debate because I think that it is a debate that we have needed for a long time. It appears we have agreement that life does begin at conception. Senator…

Earlier this year, Russian authorities charged two Chechens, Musa Vakhayev and Kazbek Dukuzov, with killing Paul Klebnikov, and subsequently announced that the man who ordered the murder was one Khozh-Akmed Nukaev a former official of the…

Yes, State Department and other administration officials have raised the issue frequently with their Russian counterparts. Furthermore, State and other relevant Government agencies have formed an interagency working group to follow the…

1 year ago this month a tragic crime occurred on the streets of Moscow. On July 9, 2004, Paul Klebnikov, the 41-year-old American editor of Forbes Russia, was murdered in a gangland-style shooting near his Moscow office. His death was an…

I commend the active interest the junior Senator from New York has taken in the Klebnikov case, and I look forward to our further collaboration on other vital OSCE issues before the Helsinki Commission. ____________________

Paul believed that the press was the last outpost of freedom of speech in Russia. The fear and self-censorship generated by killing journalists benefits corrupt government officials and businessmen, as well as organized crime figures…

Reading his reporting from Russia, one could tell that he was deeply troubled by the crime and corruption that plagued his ancestral homeland. His personal association with his subject, combined with an educational background in economics…

the Romans, said Tacitus, ``created a desert and called it peace.'' The Russian Government has created a wasteland of death and destruction in Chechnya and called it ``normalization.'' Over 10 years since the beginning of the Chechen war…

I, too, wish to recognize the comments made by the majority leader this morning and to thank him for his call for a ban on human cloning, which was one of the principles that he outlined when he spoke this morning. I am interested in…

The number of areas of treatment for human ailments or medical conditions in humans using human embryonic stem cells is zero. So the notion that delaying this Castle-Specter bill is going to hurt current patients is completely false. If we…

I wish to read one section of this article: A team of Harvard scientists is claiming the discovery of a reservoir of cells that appear capable of replenishing the ovaries of sterilized mice, possibly providing new ways to [create human…

The author of this editorial--this is the lead British medical journal--says: . . . what is unarguable is that the human embryo is alive and is human, and intentionally ending the life of one human being for the potential benefit of others…

I rise today to remember an important occasion that represents 15 years in our Nation's history and welcome the opportunity to speak on these issues which are near and dear to my heart. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed…

I join my colleagues in making brief comments about the selection of Judge John Roberts from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and I follow my colleague from Kentucky in noting how…

on this beautiful day in Washington, DC, we are about to create some great opportunities for Kansas farmers, Kansas manufacturers, and opportunities of hope for people in Central America. That is to me what this CAFTA bill represents. I do…

The amendment is simply intended to ensure a level playing field between small businesses and utility affiliates, to protect ratepayers, and the financial integrity of utilities, and to preserve fair competition.