Byron Dorgan

I think they are the right thing to do, and I believe the same is true with respect to the restoration of nondiscrimination provisions with respect to the Internet.

I support all of those.

The open architecture of the Internet proposal has become.

I want competition. I want there to be innovation.

I think my colleague Senator DeMint has given the most robust support for discrimination that I've heard here in the Senate for some while.

Antitrust-law enforcement, in this town, is almost completely, thoroughly, totally nonexistent.

I agree with Senator Burns, that probably not a lot of people understand the term 'net neutrality,' but they certainly understand the open architecture of the Internet.

Normally the Member who offered the amendment would close. That was my assumption, to close the debate on my amendment.

If I might inquire, I thought you were intending to yield back the time. That was the proposition under which I decided to speak. I said that if the other side was prepared to yield back the time, then I will use my time.

The Senator, I believe, wanted to ask if I would yield for a question. I am happy to do that.

Let me say quickly, and I appreciate the Senator's courtesy for yielding, my amendment does nothing with respect to agricultural workers. We still have the provisions in underlying law allowing for temporary workers to come in and support…

I am not in a position to do that. Forty minutes a side is satisfactory. I have a number of Members who have asked for time to speak on amendments. We are trying to reach them. I understand the Senator from Pennsylvania has an interest in…

I will be laying the amendment down in just about a minute. I am reviewing one piece of it. I will be laying the amendment down in about a minute.

I will do that, but I will not do it at the moment. I want to perfect the amendment and begin discussions, see how many on my side and perhaps your side wish to speak on it before we would make an agreement with respect to the time.

I am also today going to offer an amendment numbered 3223, which I believe is at the desk. I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burns). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I will be brief. I had thought I agreed to the unanimous consent request in exchange for 10 minutes to speak on this nomination, but if that time does not exist, I will truncate my remarks.

No, I only have a minute and a half. Several hundred companies have benefited, not just a few. If one wants to run America's trade policy exclusively through the sieve of the World Trade Organization, I will say get a big armchair, sit…

Let me say my colleague from New Hampshire, while interesting and articulate, stops a couple of pages short of good research. First, my colleague talks at length about the WTO. I am not sure which direction we would be required to bow to…

Yes. How do you justify what you said with what is in the BusinessWeek article, and virtually everyone else knows that they are buying back stock, hoarding cash, and drilling on Wall Street?

Was it also the case that the $1,000,000 in funding for the Energy and Environmental Research Center under the fuels & powers account was meant to be exclusively for the Energy and Environmental Research Center in North Dakota as described…

In 30 seconds, I say the Senator has just made my point. He recited a long description of people interested in this, none of whom reside in the Congress. The oversight responsibility belongs to the Congress. It belongs here, and it is not…

The Senator from Virginia is quite right that we have twice before voted on this amendment and I believe ignored the value of the amendment. In almost all cases, there is virtue in being consistent, but being consistently wrong is hardly…

That is an unbelievable assertion. I have great respect for the Senator from Virginia, but it is unbelievable. I, too, drive down the road, and on my radio, for example, would listen to Rush Limbaugh, very entertaining, very smart. It is a…

Well, if the Senator would allow me to respond, let me propose an idea which I have proposed to Armed Forces Radio. I said, What about putting someone on from this side with a progressive talk show that would counterbalance this? The…

On behalf of Senator Inouye, I ask unanimous consent that Susan Ball, an intern in his office, be granted the privileges of the floor during consideration of the Labor-Health and Human Services bill and any votes thereon. The ACTING…