Andrea Joy Campbell

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 2 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 548, after line 8, add the following new section: SEC. 1115. TERMINATION OF HUMAN, SOCIAL, AND CULTURE…

One, discretionary spending in this country has increased 38 percent in the last 4 years, 38 percent. Has Americans' spending increased 38 percent? Has Americans' income increased 38 percent? No. All this amendment does is it asks the…

The greatest threat to the national security of this country today is our debt. The Secretary of Defense has said that. He has said certainly it is a national security threat, as has the Secretary of State. So we need to get this debt…

Analysts tell us that the Medicare system in this country will be bankrupt in 7 years and that Social Security and Medicaid are not far behind. What that means is we can't pay for the entitlements we've got. So what does this health care…

The expanded use of domestic natural gas is the most obvious and cost-effective way, immediately and over the long term, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We'll get a lot more benefit for this if it's more like matching funds and we encourage private capital to go in and the public capital comes with it. With that, Mr. Chairman, I stand in support of this bill and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On one other point, there are people who say that a financial collapse didn't happen, and, in fact, it didn't. You don't get credit for bad things that don't happen. I would argue that the financial collapse was…

But yet many mutual, bank, and insurance holding companies have been unable to even apply for TARP funds because of the Treasury's not coming out with a term sheet that would enable them to apply, even those that can issue nonpublic…

Mr. President, before I make some comments on the amendment, No. 2623, which we discussed Thursday, listening to the Senator's comments about the so-called gun show loopholes and the point of contact, I might ask, what if a person goes to…

Today I am introducing the Indian Technical Corrections Act of 2003 to provide routine and noncontroversial amendments to Federal statutes affecting Indian tribes and Indian people. The vast majority of these amendments were included in…

I will work with the Senator from Washington, my ranking member, and the Customs Service to achieve this important goal. We must work hard to plug the security holes that exist, and this is one we should fix.

I also agree that securing our Nation's ports and points of entry is critical to protecting our citizens.

I support a motion to table the Dodd amendment. Let me say at the outset, though, that no one questions Senator Dodd's commitment to the Indian people of America. He has an exemplary voting record, and he has always been there when we…

Exactly the point. We don't know the problems that will be created, and that is why I think it is wrong to move forward with this bill with this section in it until we have had some really in-depth hearings as to how it would affect water…

I think this is a question that probably should have been fully debated, with some kind of a hearing, and not attached to this bill. The Senator from Montana, Mr. Burns, mentioned what we often call the law of unintended consequences. That…

That is right. I hope history doesn't repeat itself. The only way we can prevent that is to become less dependent on foreign oil.

Due to dramatic increases in land border traffic and trade with Canada coupled with only token increase in staffing in recent years, our ports of entry are woefully understaffed.

The Subcommittee is increasingly aware of the problems that drugs pose in the workplace. Helping businesses to address such a problem will greatly benefit our communities and children. I look forward to working with my colleague to address…

There is not a dime in this bill that will go for an abortion. But we have heard from the other side that money is fungible and so that the money that otherwise might be freed up could be seen for abortion. The United States allocates more…

Mr. Chairman, the key point I want to stress in closing is that this does not create a union of doctors. The words ``collective bargaining'' only occur in the statute with reference to an antitrust exemption already in law for unions. We…

I rise for two purposes. Although colleagues have referred to this as the Campbell bill, this is the Campbell-Conyers bill. There is no one who has fought as hard as the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) for this bill, and that…

Mr. Chairman, it is of that magnitude. We know 26 times already this process has been used to put people in jail in this country. INS claims that there are only 8 left. We do not know that for sure. I think that the magnitude was reached…

The cost of incarceration is all I am after in this particular bill, in this particular effort, because it is the incarceration of people on the basis of evidence that they cannot see that strikes me as the least fair of all.

We have had hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary and in the subcommittee as well; and I am grateful to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) for allowing that. So we have done all we can…