John B. Breaux: “Or you can send to the Governor a strong note saying, 'This is not fair and representative. I want someone that--we need…”

if we are going to look in the MARAD program for huge amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse compared to everything else, I would suggest that we're going to be spending a lot of time, with little results.

I wonder if anybody in this body remembers Enron. Let's trust that they are going to do right. They are a U.S. corporation that created more tax shelters than the IRS could count. It took a group of Philadelphia lawyers 2 months to even…

this morning one of the very able legislative assistants who has worked on this legislation for almost 7 years, going back to the time on the Medicare Commission when we first started doing Medicare reform, was on the floor working with me…

I start off by commending the authors of the amendment for a real serious effort to try to improve the bill. But I rise in opposition because there is not any segment of the senior population that you could not isolate and target and say…