Watson Coleman

today I rise to join Senator Levin in introducing the Tax Shelter and Tax Haven Reform Act of 2005. This bill addresses abusive tax shelters and offshore tax havens which allow tax evaders to avoid paying their fair share. These abuses…

I would like to welcome over 30,000 young men to Washington D.C. for the 2005 National Boy Scout of America Jamboree. I would also like to give my sincerest condolences to the families of the four Boy Scout leaders who were tragically…

the nomination of a Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States is a solemn and momentous occasion. Our Constitution is the rarest of political documents in human history. Those individuals who are appointed for life to be its…

I thank the Senator for that opportunity. When the Court begins its term in October, we will include nominees spanning seven administrations and people shaped by events from Watergate to September 11 and beyond. The Founders invested the…

Yes, I will work with my colleague to gain funding for this important program. Safe Drinking Water

Yes, as my colleague mentions, this program seeks to address the health care infrastructure by training nurse practitioners through the University of Minnesota's excellent distance learning program for nurse practitioners. This program…

Those questions that my colleague from Kentucky has raised are what we would like some answers to. Are we intending to cover public officials, U.S. Senators, by the provisions of this amendment, and do we include----

I yield 2 minutes to the majority whip. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I thank my friend from Minnesota. While we are talking about poorly drafted amendments, listen to this. Under the Reid amendment, it imposes a standard of strict…

before we close, I do want to get back to perhaps some of the underlying facts that motivated this amendment. By the way, we don't know the facts. We just know what we have read. The Democratic leader cited a poll that appeared in the Wall…

It talks about Karl Rove the ``whistleblower.'' I don't want to read all of it, but in part it reads: For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real ``whistleblower'' in this whole sorry pseudoscandal. He's the one who warned Time's Matthew…

once again, let's be very clear. It is about politics. That is all this is about--politics. We have an Executive order that has been in place for 10 years that talks about dealing with classified information, talks about what happens when…

I suggest to my friend from Alabama that is the reason, in the Executive order, we have a standard of knowing. In fact, if you do something negligently, there is a standard and you can be held accountable. But there is no such standard…

Because in that order--again, I am looking at the standard, and I appreciate my colleague's words about going beyond the intent. In the executive order the standard is knowingly, willfully, or negligently. Is that the standard that is…

I yield another minute to the Senator from Kansas. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas is recognized for one additional minute.

To be split between both sides? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 38 minutes for the majority on two amendments.

Absolutely. Mr. McCONNELL. Did I understand the Senator from Minnesota correctly that he was posing two questions to the proponents of the Reid amendment, No. 1, whether intent was left out of the amendment on purpose, and No. 2, whether…

Is the Democratic leader aware of the executive order issued by President Clinton in 1995 on this issue, on security clearances?

If that is the case, I suggest then we perhaps take a few minutes to work out the language because there may be some technical problems with definitions of Federal employees. The language in the statute talks about receiving security…

I yield such time to the majority whip as he needs. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The assistant majority leader is recognized. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I rise to speak on the Frist amendment, which is one of the two votes we will have…

I rise today to discuss Coleman-Lugar bill that will effect meaningful and reasonable reform of the United Nations. But before I delve into the issues of U.N. reform, I must take a moment to thank my colleague Senator Lugar for his…

I thank my colleagues, the chairman from Maine and the ranking member from Connecticut, for the hard work they have done in working in a bipartisan way and coming up with important, practical, commonsense ways to deal with the threats to…

I rise in support of CAFTA. There are a lot of reasons to support this trade agreement. I came to this decision, by the way, in the last couple of days. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics…

over 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year and sadly, cancer will claim the lives of over 2,000 of these children each year. Today, I am proud to be submitting the Childhood Cancer Awareness Resolution with my friends…

as United States Senators, we are well aware of the difficulty in making tough decisions. But, a tough decision for a thirteen-year-old foster care child shouldn't be choosing between being adopted and having a permanent loving, stable…

again, I remind my colleagues that it is a nomination with 10 hours of hearings, 2 business meetings, 35 staff interviews with 29 different people, a thousand pages of transcripts and 800 pages of documents, the opportunity for the…