The Senator knows very well that this debate is simply an attempt to divert attention from the real problem. You just mentioned a moment ago the tough deficit reduction----

And the Treasury is borrowing all the money to fund the debt, and the Senator knows it.

The Senator mentioned he might like to have me on his side in a fight at some point. This is my fifth year in the Senate. It does not come anywhere near the number of years the distinguished Senator has served here, but I am hoping that…

Declaration of war is intended to be construed in the context of the powers of the Congress to declare war under article I, section 8. The committee intends that ordinary and prudent preparations for a war perceived by Congress to be…

My final point. My only point is we did not do what we needed to do to correct it. Even with the tax increase you did not correct it. If you want to take the position, which I happen to disagree with, that we can continue to raise taxes…

But the Senator is focusing on that and ignoring article I, which allows you to raise the debt if you need to raise the debt in order to deficit spend, in order to deal with the emergency that the Senator is talking about.

But, as the Senator knows, the Congress during those years rolled these huge continuing resolutions in to the President with everything from Social Security to defense and every little program that could possibly hurt anybody in America…

It goes right back to the issue of priorities, which is why we are dealing with a balanced budget amendment to begin with, I say to the Senator from Maryland. Priorities are, if you are at war or need to go to war to defend the national…

But the Senator knows, as an expert on the Constitution, that the Congress of the United States controls the purse strings. The President does not spend any money without the approval of Congress. So I think, to be fair about it, it would…

Mr. President, as I indicated in previous remarks on the floor in this debate on another day, this really is the defining moment. This is the opportunity for us to move on balancing the Federal budget. If we do not do it during this time…

I rise today to salute U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Carl A. Clement, from Sunapee, NH, who died January 10, 1995, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident while serving his country in South Korea. The accident that took the life of this…

we have a major opportunity early in this Congress to enact vitally important legislation to protect our Nation against the scourge of international terrorism. On behalf of myself, the distinguished chairman of the Immigration…

Here we are facing fines of $25,000 a day, trying to fix $18 million worth of problems. Does that make sense? Does it really make sense to fine these people to try to comply? That is what an unfunded mandate does. Not only is it an…