Byron Dorgan

That's correct. The administration talks about an agreement with Chile. Go negotiate an agreement with Chile. Get an airplane ticket for 1 o'clock. You can do that. Nothing prevents a negotiation on trade with Chile--not this fast-track…

This administration says they have negotiated nearly 200 trade agreements in the last 5 years--200 of them. Well, why didn't they need fast track to do that? Because those agreements were mostly bilateral trade agreements in which they…

I would expect that piece of legislation would take some significant time. But that wasn't the reason I asked the Senator to yield. There clearly is a wrench in the crankcase here and we are not moving. I suspect the Senator from…

One of the reasons we are told they don't want to have a vote on this is because money is speech, they say. If that is the case, there are a lot of folks in this country who are voiceless in American politics. There is too much money…

Will the Senator from Montana agree that we are not moving; that we have a circumstance where a bill is brought to the floor, and we are virtually tied in knots with a procedural tree, which is not unusual? It has been used before, and…

It seems to me that the only reason the tree is full with a final second-degree amendment that would be acceptable to everyone is simply to prevent others from offering amendments. I understand the parliamentary strategy here. But the…

The Senator from Montana has actually seen a glacier move, something I have not yet observed. Would the Senator from Montana agree that the glacier--however rapidly or slowly it is moving--is moving more rapidly than we are?

I very much want the Senate to be able to complete its work on the highway reauthorization bill. I also am someone who believes that if the Senate leaves after this first session of Congress without having dealt with the underlying bill of…

I hope to come back on Monday and find some time to discuss President Clinton's proposal to provide fast-track trade authority so he can negotiate additional trade agreements. I am opposed to that, and I am going to resist vigorously trade…

Senator Burns and I see the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations on the floor and we would like to engage him in a discussion regarding assistance from the Department of Energy (DOE) to help finance the…

My point is, if he will allow me one more minute, my point is that I think it is unfair to the Senator from Louisiana. I think it is unfair to the people of Louisiana. This ought to get wrapped up. Our point is this: There is no intention…

I understand who the Senator from Mississippi says is at fault. I only know it is September. The first two lawyers who were hired, a Democrat and Republican, testified in front of the committee that hired them and said there is nothing…

I am proposing $8 million be added to the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that I hope would be used for that purpose. The offset is from a corresponding reduction in the NIH buildings and facilities account. I believe that both the…

I am not prepared to have someone say, ``I reject the standard that Congress determined to be the standard when it passed the Telecommunications Act, and I create my own standard,'' and none of us know what that means here--I am not…

I accept the notion that closing military installations saves money. That is why I have been involved in supporting four previous base closing rounds. It clearly will save money. We do not know how much. I do not think anyone here knows…

I hope we can do. It will have almost insignificant consequence, but will be significant to the disaster's victims. One deals with the question of the use of IRAs by victims of the disaster who now find themselves with a need to invest in…

I did explain the important role of Senator Stevens from Alaska and our gratitude toward him. However, I would be remiss if I did not tell the Senate the admiration we have for the Senator from South Dakota in his leadership on this issue…

I will be enormously pleased that finally disaster relief will be available to many Americans who desperately need it.

But the Senator supported, when the bill passed the Senate the Senator supported the conference report that had this package of disaster assistance in it. I just do not want someone to misinterpret--maybe I am putting words in your mouth…

But it seems to me that the decision in the Denver courtroom today should say to all of us that the judicial system in this country does work, the message today in that courtroom was a message that seems to me that those who commit heinous…

I came to the floor, however, just to visit a few moments about the disaster relief bill, the supplemental appropriations bill that we will be dealing with this week in Congress. As my colleagues know, the Congress left for a Memorial Day…

I listened to my colleagues describe Jonna Lynne Cullen, and while I did not and do not know her, the description given by my two colleagues makes me, and I am sure other colleagues here in the Congress, wish we knew her. She is…

There is a way to do what people have said needs doing, and what, I think, needs doing; that is, honestly provide greater flexibility. If people want to take comptime instead of overtime, there certainly is a way to do that without…

Isn't it the case that the bill that was brought to the floor says to you, if you are an employer and you have somebody working for you making $14,000 a year, working hard, working two 40-hour weeks, ``By the way, we will give you some…

I happen to think there is great merit in reaching a bipartisan agreement on a balanced budget deal... we need to preserve the Social Security surpluses above that to save for the baby boom generation when it retires.