Thad Cochran

Certainly the research conducted by the lab is a key component in ensuring that an affordable, safe and dependable supply of nutritious vegetable crops is available to U.S. consumers. I, too, want to assure the Senator from South Carolina…

I understand why this project is important to my colleagues. I will work with them to find a way to help ARS move forward in funding this project.

The resolution before the Senate should be considered by those who have planned and perpetrated the heinous attacks in New York City and Washington as more than a warning. It is a promise that will be kept. We pledge today our whole…

I am sure most Senators have heard by now, or read in the newspapers, that Eudora Welty died yesterday in Jackson, MS. She was 92. Miss Welty was a wonderful person and one of America's best writers. She was well known around the world for…

The Early Reading First Program is designed to improve the language and early literacy development of children ages 3 through 5. Reading, as we all know, is the most important and fundamental skill for children to learn. This new provision…

I think we should not forget that there are two Senators who really deserve real credit--Senators McCain and Feingold. Because of their perseverance, determination, and effective leadership, they have brought us to the point where we are…

Today I am introducing a Senate joint resolution appointing a citizen regent to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. I am pleased that my fellow Smithsonian Institution Regents, the Senator from Tennessee, Mr. Frist, and…

I understand the challenges facing California's growers. The Administration's budget request of $31.91 million for the Program earmarks only $300,000 for equipment and maintenance of the State's Preventive Release Program. The fiscal year…

The historical Delta area is the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, which includes only small portions of Tennessee and Kentucky, the typically flat and gently-sloping land of eastern Louisiana and Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi, the boot-heel…

I recognize the need to provide adequate support for the 1890 institutions. The Senator will be pleased to know that this bill provides increases above the fiscal year 2000 level for the 1890 institution's capacity building grants program…

I will work in conference to consider $500,000 for the Red River Trade Council's Agricultural Diversity Project in the final version of the Agriculture Appropriations bill.

I understand that this is a cooperative approach to enhance the accessibility and utility of genomic information for plant genetic research, and Senator Domenici championed the authorization for this institute in the recently enacted…

I am only trying to address one small aspect of this, and that is the involvement of this national advisory committee so the Secretary would have the benefit of scientific advice and evidence and information.

If my amendment is accepted by the Senator, my amendment would amend your amendment only in one respect; that is, on page 2 of the amendment we would strike the words ``established by the Secretary'' and insert the language that I quoted…

I appreciate that spirit of cooperation very much. I hope we can move on and complete action on the bill sometime this afternoon. To do that, we are going to have to act on the amendments we have that are going to be offered. It doesn't…

I will be proposing an amendment, joined by Senators Gregg and Schumer, that will stop the Federal Government from wasting taxpayers' dollars on an unnecessary and outdated sugar program that costs consumers as much as $2 billion in…

I believe that these funds would be better utilized by the Midshipmen Welfare Fund that supports extra-curricular activities not covered by appropriated funds. Knowing of the strong leadership of the chairman and the Senator from Hawaii…

I am rising today almost as a preemptive debate against these criticisms which I expect will be made by some Senators. They will use Mr. Ted Postol from MIT as the authority for their arguments. So I wish to give the Senate some…

This is an amendment relating to economic and disaster assistance. To refresh the memory of Senators, this is an amendment that seeks to give the Secretary of Agriculture authority and funds with which to deal with the economic crisis that…

I appreciate very much also his efforts to try to identify the ways we can develop a comprehensive response to the disaster situation and the economic crisis that exists in agriculture today. ... Some farmers are having a good year but…

Does that mean that the exact dollar amount set aside for each of the programs such as the Wetlands Restoration Program, the EQIP program--which is an emergency conservation program--emergency watershed program, all total $212 million in…

My colleague asked me whether the Congressional Budget Office had scored the amendment that I offered. I ask my colleague the same question: What does the Congressional Budget Office say the amendment that the Democratic leader has offered…

Let me congratulate my friend, the distinguished Senator from Georgia, for organizing this special order and allowing this opportunity to speak on the subject of Teacher Appreciation Week. Tribute to Tina Scholtes, Mississippi's Teacher of…

Today one of my State's most famous citizens of all time celebrates her 90th birthday. Eudora Welty is known around the world as a writer of enormous talent and accomplishment. She has lived for most of her life in Jackson, MS, and she…

I am very pleased to see the time the Senate is taking this morning to pay tribute to Senator Bob Kerrey, and to recognize his contribution during our war in Vietnam, and the recognition that he received as a Medal of Honor winner as a…