Harry Reid

He made a wonderful statement. He said, Why should the Federal Government have to pay extra money for what we aren't doing?

I say to my friend, this war is approaching 3\1/2\ years, and there has not been a single congressional oversight hearing on the conduct of the war. This war has now cost us, the American taxpayers, about $325 billion. There has not been a…

The article goes on to say--and I say to my friend and anyone within the sound of my voice: To recruit the people he wanted, O'Beirne sought resumes from the offices of Republican congressmen, conservative think tanks and GOP activists. He…

It started out at $18 billion. But as the Senator from Illinois will remember, part of that money, stacks of one-hundred- dollar bills, was used by some of the contractors who were sent over there to play football games--some of these same…

I don't think he did. Even though he was doing a heck of a job, I don't think he obtained a medal from the White House.

The answer is, yes, he received that. I assume one would expect that from somebody who had a throne while he was over there.

Senator Stevens came to me and wanted to enter into an agreement that we will have two votes tonight. I am very inclined to agree to that, but I ask the Senator--we have specific times on our speakers. We need an idea as to how much longer…

That way we can work through there and have the votes the majority leader wants.

This is about changing course in Iraq and the president demonstrating to the American people. He understands America cannot stay the course when the present course is taking our country in the wrong direction.

They have run this play one too many times. It is the same speeches that they have given before. And all the speeches in the world do not change what's going on, on the ground in Iraq. And, as we have heard here, the ground in Iraq is not…

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld's speeches are increasingly disconnected from the facts on the ground in Iraq.

Success in Iraq is a question of strategy. And the president's strategy after three years, according to Reid, is failing.

Everyone will be relieved to know I don't have anything to say. ____________________

The only thing I ask is that the distinguished manager of the bill amend his consent to indicate there will be no second-degree amendments in order prior to the vote.

We come in Tuesday, work on the bill Tuesday, finish it Wednesday. It may be a late night, but we will finish. I told you 2 days, and all my Senators are here, and we will finish it in 2 days.

May I ask the distinguished ranking member of the subcommittee to allow me to make a brief statement?

It has been about 10 years. As I said here yesterday, I don't know why, even though it is a flawed measure they sent us, I don't know why they have moved forward. Maybe it is because we stood up and said there will be no congressional pay…

I say to my friend, like they pay for everything else. My 16 grandchildren are going to be paying for it, and their children are going to be paying for it. You talk about a death tax; the estate tax is not a death tax. What this…

Legislative heaven, obviously, for the Republicans in this Congress is the estate tax.

This increases the national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars. I ask my friends on the other side of the aisle, how could you let this happen? I say that. I plead: How can you let this happen? We will try to stop it. We would like a…

I ask that the time during the quorum call be charged equally against both sides. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. No time is remaining on the side of the proponents.

I say to my friend, this was on a bipartisan vote. On a bill cosponsored by the two people who take care of our armed services, Senators Levin and Warner, 79 Senators voted for that, and the law of the country as we speak is that the year…

I say to my friend, that is what is so concerning to me, that they are following--they, the Republican Senators, are following President Bush, stay the course, stay the course in Iraq. It breaks my heart, frankly. Every day I get up. This…

First, my coming here is just as the Senator indicated. How can we, the Senate of our country, leave here with the raging civil war going on and our troops are right in the middle of it? How can we leave here without changing the course in…

I didn't mention this in our private conversation, but we are going to do the Defense bill hopefully before we leave, and the one thing we haven't talked about is the Intelligence authorization bill. That has been reported out of the…