Harry Reid

We on this side are disappointed with the objection that the distinguished majority leader made to our request. But I would like to add that upon the disposition of this matter, the marriage amendment, we are prepared to proceed to the…

Again, through the Chair to my distinguished colleague from Texas, he also understands one of the ways we get bogged down on issues--on some occasions, not always--is by unlimited amendments. The Senator from Texas will recall in the…

If cloture is invoked, you can bring up a nongermane amendment, but if anyone raises a point of order that your amendment is not germane, that amendment falls automatically. There is no such supermajority motion available like there is…

The Senator from Alaska--and we all care deeply about him; he is our President pro tempore--said he wanted to bring up the bill--that was objected to--the Homeland Security bill, but under specific conditions, limiting debate and…

Ships coming into the United States today have on them transponders. The purpose of that is so those people ashore can find out where the ship is and have a better idea of where they are. As we speak, there are about 43,000 very large…

So I say to my friend, there is a transponder on every ship coming into the United States, but we do not have the equipment on shore to have the transponders picked up on shore. Why? Because we have not spent the money to do it. The…

If the distinguished leader would allow me to say a few words, and it will be a few words, as I said earlier today the role of the majority leader is extremely difficult. While I disagree with the action taken of filing the motion for…

I do not like the bill. OK, I do not like the bill, but we have a few Democrats who like it, so we decided not to stand in the way of this legislation. I have a letter from Jerry Jasinowski who is the president of the National Association…

And these people, I interrupt the Senator through the Chair, did not know--her friends, neighbors, people around America--she was a spy; is that right?

And the people supplying her information certainly did not want the world to know the information they were giving to this woman was information being given to a CIA operative; is that true?

Would the Senator succinctly state what harm was done, or could have been done, as a result of divulging the name of this woman?

The one message that came out of the meeting to me is that the hero today in Iraq is the Prime Minister of Iraq. He is a man of great courage who has had a number of assassination attempts on his life, even when he did not live in Iraq…

We have worked with the Senator from Louisiana for many hours today on this amendment. There was an article written, and I joke with the Senator from Louisiana. She was the feature of a veterans publication. They had a picture of her with…

For years, the plan for missile defense, which is placed in Alaska, provided for 20 interceptors. Suddenly, this year the administration asked for 10 additional interceptors. My amendment will simply fence the acquisition of these…

I would like to add what I hope will be a moment of pleasantness to what we do here, and that is talk about the Presiding Officer who has the patience of--I don't know if it is a Job at this stage, but a lot of patience because he has sat…

I want the Record to be clearly spread with the fact that if the Senator from Virginia feels that I misled, deceived, or tricked him in any way that I will withdraw my amendment.

In years past, when Senator Dole was running for President, when he was still here, we went out of our way to make sure Senator Dole had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted to do. If he wanted to vote on one, two, three, or four…

That is fine. I will be happy to do that. But I see no prejudice to anyone if he is allowed to lay down his amendment.

I want it made clear that the reason I said this is we have worked very hard to move this bill along. This is an important bill. We started off with about 300 amendments. Those amendments were defense oriented with rare exception. The…

There are a lot of things we would like to talk about. There is minimum wage, just to name one and which we feel is long overdue. There are a lot of amendments regarding Medicare we could offer on this legislation--prescription drugs. But…

The Senator from Illinois is willing to have his amendment set aside. He is certainly not trying to take advantage of anyone. I think it does not solve our problem if he withdraws his amendment.

The Supreme Court upheld our being able to pledge allegiance to the flag. They did it on a procedural grounds, but I do not think it matters. We won.

I have had many meetings over the years, as we all have, dealing with a broad range of subjects, but I have never had a meeting that was more meaningful, more informative, more educational to me than the meeting I had with the school…

Everybody within the sound of my voice should understand that the distinguished Senator from New Jersey is a person who understands the business world. Before coming to the Senate, he was one of the Nation's leading economic advisers, a…

I direct a question to my friend from New Jersey. Would my friend agree that these huge deficits that are piling up at unprecedented rates are also, long term, very damaging to our economy?