this morning I was very impressed by the comments made by the distinguished Senator from Indiana, Mr. Lugar. At the markup session of our Committee on Agriculture, I had come to that session with a compromise that I was prepared to offer…

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…

I have enjoyed working on the issues and programs that must be addressed each year during our hearings and the development of this legislation. The Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service have a major presence in my state…

I am pleased that the supplemental appropriations bill which we will vote on today includes much needed funding for education. Federal support to improve the educational opportunities of disadvantaged students is provided under title I of…

my amendment, the Education Programs of National Significance Act, would reauthorize several elementary and secondary education programs that have been effective in improving the education opportunities of students throughout the country…

I am pleased to address the Senate to applaud the leadership being shown by President Bush during his visit with leaders in Europe. I like the straightforward and forceful way he is expressing his views on international security issues…

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 support the Grassley amendment. This amendment will provide an additional $63.5 billion to the baseline for Commodity Credit Corporation mandatory payments to farmers. This will allow the authorizing committee to write a comprehensive…

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…

I take this time to respond to those who are suggesting we put off, or even cancel, the deployment of a national missile defense system. One reason the critics of the program are giving for delay is the alleged opposition of our allies…

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…

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…

the Mississippi River Delta possesses many common characteristics and unique problems throughout the 7-state alluvial floodplain which it encompasses. The subcommittee report includes funding for a new Delta Regional Authority, an economic…

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…

this amendment, on its face, looks as though the Senate is being asked to vote in favor of supporting the Department of Agriculture's standards for meat inspection that include the power to shut down a plant if it is found that the product…

this amendment states that the microbiological standards imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture, in situations involving those described by the amendment of the Senator from Iowa, must be imposed pursuant to the Administrative Procedures…

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 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 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 struck the language that he suggested bothered him. He read that language to be ``that is shown to be adulterated.'' He was worried about connecting proof of contaminated food with the ability of the Department of Agriculture to shut…

The date of July 18 was chosen because it was on that date that the National Resources Conservation Service provided a list to the committee, at our request, of unfunded needs that were considered emergency watershed projects throughout…

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 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…

the purpose of this second-degree amendment is to try to help ensure the result of the change in this law, in the authority for importing drugs into the country or selling drugs to American consumers from Canada, which I think this…