So private litigants, their attorneys are yet to be compensated. So you add those on to the $435 billion. Now, if you are talking about $10 to $14 billion in the other place, I wonder if we could just add a low figure $10 billion, so we…

I have been extremely disappointed that the national tobacco settlement includes no provisions whatsoever to help the tobacco farmer. There is no question that this proposal will affect them. Yet there is nothing in the proposal for them…

Am I right if what I see here is that we are trying to say that this is a bad union here that is going to get taxpayer dollars to have an election? So, therefore, we are going to interfere. The issue is emotional. No question about it. But…

Can the Senator help me a little bit in the position that I find myself? We are sitting here with the Federal judges--almost 100 vacancies around the country. And they have to pass a litmus test before we can ever get them to the floor so…

I questioned earlier the distinguished Senator from Maryland as to a real problem that I have as it relates to the amendment that has now been submitted by the Senator from Oklahoma and the Senator from Idaho. My friend from Alabama, the…

I am pleased to have the honor today of paying tribute to Joe R. Christian who will be retiring on August 19 from the U.S. Capitol Police after 20 years of service to the force. As the officer on duty with the Capitol Third Division, Joe…

Mr. President, there is an old saying that when you run out of luck, you better get a new pair of dice. As far as I am concerned, we have lost every roll of the dice during the climate change negotiations, and we better get ourselves a new…

Under SAMHSA, as I understand it, the States are required to certify to SAMHSA that they are carrying out these laws and one of the requirements under SAMHSA, in the so-called Synar amendment, is sting operations. So the enforcement is…

Under the Synar amendment, the States have passed laws to comply with SAMHSA. And, under that compliance they are required to enforce the law. And they are to so certify. They are to so certify to HHS that they are doing it. And part of…

It reminds me of the military, the teeth and the tail. I believe the teeth here have been pulled.

How can States regulate the purchase of cigarettes without dealing with retailers? There is no way. Because that is where the tobacco is sold. So, therefore, they do deal with retailers. Under the SAMHSA rule they have, based on their law…

I have in my hand the explanation and rationale for the budget request of FDA as it relates to tobacco. There is not a goal in here. There is not a goal in here. So if SAMHSA does not have a goal, then FDA does not have one. So if the…

I am sure he will be able to answer this and make me look bad. But this is just on crop insurance.

And there will not be for a while. Mr. President, there is a lot of tobacco bashing going on and I understand that better than anybody in this Chamber. An agreement that has been negotiated--and my good friend from Illinois, even though we…

What about the $77 million that went to the hurricanes in North and South Carolina and Virginia that was paid and helped the communities or they would have taken the money out of some other fund as it relates to disasters?

what I have done here, as I said earlier, is to try to make crop insurance more comprehensive. So what this does is, it says that any farm with more than 400 acres that can be farmed not be eligible for crop insurance. The idea here is to…

Here you are damaging the farmer that is beginning to feel the pinch anyhow and hoping that we could negotiate some kind of an agreement. He is left out. You still want to eliminate this part of his everyday life.

nearly 3 months ago, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration voted to begin a preliminary investigation to determine the factual basis, if any, for a contest of the 1996 Senate election in Louisiana. I want to take a few minutes…

I rise this morning to praise the men and women of NASA, and to applaud the vision and leadership of NASA Administrator Dan Golden. The landing of the Pathfinder explorer on Mars and the subsequent exploration by the Sojourner rover, named…

So, Mr. President, as cochairman of the Senate National Guard Caucus, I rise to ask my colleagues to support the amendment of the senior Senator from Alaska, elevating the National Guard Bureau to a four-star general and including that…

there seems to be an unsettling frustration and even a palpable consternation on the other side of the House. My Republican colleagues do not seem to be able to accept the fact that we Democrats support tax relief, and tax relief for all…

I would like to add to the thoughtful remarks of my distinguished colleagues. We started the debate over how to fund the FAA last Congress when we first proposed a fee system. Senator McCain and I worked very hard on the bill and the…

today as we debate this tax relief package I think what we clearly see is Democrats and Republicans both want tax relief, but the issue boils down to those who work, play by the rules here in America and believe in the American dream, that…

let's be fair. We had a negotiated agreement. It wasn't good enough. That may be the floor. So here we come with 20 cents more, and then 11 cents more. I have 65,000 farm families that this legislation will put out of business. Oh, we are…

You know, Mr. President, this has been an interesting week. We had a negotiation with the attorneys general around the country, and the tobacco industry is stuck for almost $370 billion. The price of cigarettes go up. How much more do you…