Jon S. Corzine

It is all a beautiful part of the country. But I must say, of all of the issues that get at human interests, I consider it extraordinarily unusual that we have chosen to put a group of people--a limited group of people--at such risk. I…

I want to speak about families of lawful noncitizens whose loved ones perished in the World Trade Center. They are about to be put into a position where, on a legal basis, they are deportable as of September 11, 2002, and this at the same…

I rise today, sadly, to express my sincere disappointment with the passage of the Trade Act conference report. It is deeply troubling to me. I will go through a number of the reasons I have these feelings and why I think they need to be…

I bring up a subject that I have been speaking about frequently. That is our Social Security system, one that I believe the American people deserve to have a debate about before the election in November. There have been many attempts to…

I am honored today to stand before the Senate to express my strong support and appreciation for the conference report that I suspect, within an hour or so, we will adopt, and, hopefully, unanimously, as we did the original bill that came…

We need to address these issues. There are missing gaps in other parts of our oversight of our securities markets and financial markets that need to be addressed. Finally, I believe there is a gaping hole in our oversight of what our…

I hope we take real action soon to stop this crisis of confidence from continuing.

I rise to speak about the unspeakable, as far as I am concerned. I picked up the paper this morning and I read House GOP leaders fight audit plan, an audit plan that passed this body 97 to 0. There are rumors circulating out among those on…

The reason we have had responses like we have had in the marketplace in the last 2 weeks is that people are hot on rhetoric and low, low, low with regard to results and doing anything that is proper action to deal with the problem.

I assure my colleagues, from my own life experience, this is a remarkable man of tremendous energy, leadership, and moral character. He leads the largest Baptist church, a very dynamic community of believers, in Newark, NJ. Not only are…

I am quite pleased to support Senator Leahy's amendment. It creates tough new securities fraud penalties and punishes corporate wrongdoers we have just heard the Senator from Arizona speak to. It is a meaningful and appropriate response to…

first, I am proud to have worked with Senator Edwards and Senator Enzi on this amendment on lawyer responsibility in corporate practice. It is an exceptional piece of additional effort in dealing with corporate fraud, corporate crime, and…

I, too, wish to verbalize my opposition to this amendment that tries to draw in a completely extraneous item which has not been debated in the context of this bill in the 10 committee hearings we had with regard to putting together the…

I rise to reinforce some of the dialog we have had on the floor with regard to Amtrak. This is a major economic issue for our Nation--not just the Northeast corridor. We have enormous numbers of interconnected elements of our economy which…

As my colleague, Senator Torricelli, has noted, last fall health care providers in New Jersey responded quickly, effectively and responsibly to the anthrax crisis in New Jersey, yet they have not been reimbursed for the care they provided…

providing steady and reliable transportation for workers into and out of New York City is vital to the economic recovery of the region. We are pleased that the Committee has provided $1.8 billion that will be dedicated solely to rebuilding…

I believe the intent of the amendment in this regard is that the Department of Commerce would primarily be involved in developing measurement standards for monitoring of emissions, as well as verification technologies and methods to ensure…

I offer this amendment to protect the role of Congress and elected State and local officials in determining the nature and scope of significant public services. It is one thing for Congress to sacrifice its own prerogatives in the…

The American Public Health Association is concerned about the privatization of some parts of the Medicare Program and medical services for the poor. The American Council on Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation have…

the point the Senator from Massachusetts is making with regard to cutting the resources we have available for education and then not funding the mandates really bites in the State of New Jersey. We have a $6 billion budget deficit in the…

I rise to lend my support to Senator Torricelli's amendment which would require prospective trading partners to ensure that their domestic laws provide adequate labor protections. The amendment calls on countries interested in trading with…

We have a lot to do, if at least my analysis and others of the Social Security benefit cuts that are implied by the privatization process are implemented, for women, obviously, but Americans broadly and, quite frankly, a number of children…

If I am not mistaken--maybe the Senator from Michigan can refresh my memory--with Social Security we have something less than 10 percent of Americans now living out of poverty. That is what the whole design of the program was, to provide a…

I know this is an issue that is near and dear to your heart. It is an issue to which it is absolutely essential we pay attention and debate, that we get to a conclusion that supports America's women, making sure they have retirement…

Did I hear the Senator indicate that roughly 51 percent of women would be in poverty if we did not have a Social Security system?