Robert Torricelli

I want to join him in commenting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had potentially one of the most difficult transformations ever, maybe, becoming a Member of the Senate. It is also fair to say after only 100 days she has probably had one of the…

at some point, the division of this Senate on the issue of a tax reduction proposal must end. We must find some moment where there is a bipartisan approach that both protects our resources to deal with education and health care…

I rise today to bring to your attention an editorial written by Dr. Harold (Hal) Raveche, president of Stevens Institute of Technology that appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe on February 18, 2001. Dr. Raveche is a highly respected…

For more than 4 years, this body has considered the need for comprehensive bankruptcy reform. I have been very proud in each of those years to work with Senator Hatch and Senator Grassley in accommodating the needs of individual Senators…

So many millions of Americans have only us between their work, the labor that they may love or do, a necessity to feed their families, and the inevitability of injury if we do not act. The Senator from Massachusetts has noted, indeed, the…

For my purposes-- and I think Senator Corzine is concerned about these large pipelines delivering liquid and natural gas through the Northeast through densely populated suburban communities in New Jersey--we have met our objective; that…

In any case, this is not some general escape where people, in the future, who live in New Jersey will say: We think that is a good pipeline under the technology that was built so we are never going to inspect it. The Senator was very…

I believe we can find real resolution. Senator Cantwell, Senator Corzine, Senator Murray, and I have raised a question about the frequency of inspection of these pipelines for safety. We have raised the issue of the community's right to…

First, I again thank Senator Breaux for his leadership in helping to fashion this amendment, but since this was not drafted in committee and was literally written on the floor, I want to ensure the Record properly reflects our mutual…

Second, we discussed at some length ``deemed unnecessary because of more technologically appropriate monitoring.'' This escape was created because the Senator from Louisiana noted some lines have constant monitoring. They do not need to be…

In these times of extraordinary budgetary wealth, it is easy to forget it was less than a decade ago that a now famous comment was made that the U.S. Government would have deficits as far as the eye could see. Indeed, in 1992 when the…

I voted for this pipeline safety legislation in the last Senate. I would like to be able to vote for it in this Senate. It is legislation that should be enacted. As a nation in the midst of an energy crisis, we need to have the pipeline…

The last element on this was ``created an interruption of supply,'' which I take it means simply shutting down the pipeline for inspection without an alternative means of delivering the liquid or the natural gas and people would be without…

I have always believed that Presidents are entitled to a degree of deference in their cabinet nominees. And so, while this made it difficult I have nonetheless informed the administration that I cannot support Senator John Ashcroft's…

I rise to support Christine Todd Whitman as President Bush's nominee for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. During her years as Governor we have waged many fights together from open space preservation to ending ocean…

I hope that as a unique figure in our country, at a time of enormous change and transition, that you can give definition to this generation's role in the world.

The burden is on Castro to change this relationship, not on the United States.

I would not like to see our country become the defender of the status quo in an institution which must be made current if it is to be effective.

This country does not need simply good management and continuity of policy from you.

I do not disagree with that judgment. I just want us to temper our enthusiasm with some small dose of military reality.

The Security Council of the United Nations is a perfect reflection of the power structure of the world in 1945.

On this committee, as we change chairmen and majorities, we do not change our commitment to a bipartisan national foreign policy.

3 years ago, during a visit by a constituent, I met a young man from southern New Jersey named Kevin O'Donnell. I have shared his story with the Senate before. But on this day, having met with some success, I share it with you again. Five…

in the days and hours that remain in this session, many of us on each side of our respective aisles will say a great deal about the colleagues we have worked with and admire from our own political parties. Indeed, I am no exception. For…

for 4 years, my colleague, Senator Grassley, has shown extraordinary leadership in addressing the failings of the current bankruptcy system. He has enormous patience and has exhibited extraordinary leadership. I have been very proud to be…