Haley Stevens

I do support the Specter amendment. By virtue of the approach the Senator from Pennsylvania has enunciated, we end up with more moneys in this area of great concern, but we increase the amount of money in the bill by $200 million. There…

I am compelled to state I will oppose the first-degree amendment of Senator Schumer. It is a situation where, as far as I am concerned, there is ample money in the House bill, if we are compelled to raise the amount that is in our bill…

I do not know of any living American who does not want to protect our airliners. I do not know of any living American who does not want to protect all of America, including our borders. The fact is that it is proposed to spend $30 million…

I apologize and I have taken it upon myself to say it is my error, but the amendment is there and it is my duty to raise the subject of the debt ceiling.

I do not think we can go through this period of war and have that hanging out there and be a subject that might constrain defense spending. What I have done is introduced an amendment to this bill that says we will increase the debt…

I want the Senate to be on notice--this is an issue we have to face. I send an amendment to the desk. The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens] proposes an amendment numbered 435. Sec. Section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended…

Again, I think this is the most important vote in the history of my service in the Senate. I worked on this with President Eisenhower. Our people were about ready to go to war. He said in World War II that our ships, our planes, and our…

I want to read that tonight because I think it reflects what I have been trying to say on the floor of the Senate these past several weeks. The following was written and spoken by Alistair Cooke. He said this: . . . I promised to lay off…

I also concur with the statements of the chair and ranking member of the Agriculture Committee about the intent of provisions included in this conference report related to the CSP. It was not our intention, in any way, to modify the…

My friend from Hawaii is correct. The bill language is the law and controls the operation of the provision. I regret that the Statement of Managers was incorrectly drafted. It should have reflected that three cruise ships will be allowed…

Is the Senator aware that Republican Members of the House of Representatives who are not in that caucus because it is purely a Democratic caucus do support this nominee?

The Senator is trying to leave the impression that people of Spanish background in the House of Representatives all oppose this nominee.

I come to this Chamber to state my support for John Snow's nomination as the Treasury Secretary. In the 20 years I have known John, I have found him to be honest, capable, and up to the challenge of heading our Nation's Treasury…

I will work with my distinguished colleagues from Louisiana, my ranking member, and the entire Senate in our continued deliberation of the appropriations legislation so that the construction of the vital SELA project can continue.

I also agree that the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Project is critical to protecting the citizens of southeast Louisiana and wish to engage in a colloquy with my distinguished colleagues from Louisiana.

Senator Grassley, I appreciate your concern about the Byrne Grant Program. I agree with you completely. I will commit to you that when the conference report comes back here for a final vote, we will have the Bryne Formula Grants in there…

This $10 million will go to the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy to fund programs to combat methamphetamine production and trafficking.

In fiscal year 2002, we had $23.45 billion. In this bill, we have $27.15 billion. That is an increase of almost $4 billion. An across-the-board cut takes out about $300 million. It does not reduce anything.

Where does the Senator get those figures? The FBI received $3.49 billion in fiscal year 2002 and this bill has $3.92 billion. Beyond that we provided $158 million in the FBI joint task force. Not one FBI agent will be fired. We will not…

In the homeland security portions of the bill we have $24.7 billion, and it is subject to immense discretion as to how the money is spread. It is spread throughout the bill--$24.7 billion--for homeland security.

I am constrained to say at this late time of the night, that President Lincoln offered a bonus of $1 million and every odd section along the railroad right of way to anyone who completed the transcontinental railroad. Subsidies to…

There is a tax fund for roads with the gasoline tax; there is a fund for airports with airplane tickets. How about a program that charges people on trains to pay for whatever you need for trains?

I commend the Senator for being willing to come down in his request. It still amounts to a concept of offering a portion of the last amendment. Instead of the amount that would have been requested--$5 billion--the Senator now says $3…

I sat through the hearings Senator Byrd held as chairman on homeland security. I know the amounts that are in his amendment are amounts of money that various persons from throughout our society and from community after community all over…

I confess that if we didn't have the limitations we face, the deficit we face, I would once again support Senator Byrd's funding in each of these items. Under the circumstances, we cannot. We must get a bill the President will sign as…