Harry Reid

I think the enjoyment will have been better in the past than this year because of the tremendous constraints on the budget.

I am disappointed to learn that the Nuclear R&D budget has been cut by $34 million (-26 percent).

I want the majority to know as the election proceeds toward November, we in the Senate are going to do everything within our power to protect our nominee. By that I mean anything that is said outside this Capitol or inside this Capitol…

Congress should remember that U.S.

I wonder, with the easy week the majority leader has had this week, could you tell us what we will do after we finish the gun liability legislation?

I am stunned by the statement of Secretary Paige. I have the greatest respect for Governor Doyle. I know if he said he said it, he said it. But with regard to the NEA, for example, someone I went to high school with spent much of his adult…

Legislation is the art of compromise. Had Senator Inhofe stuck to his guns and I stuck to my guns, we would not have a bill. That is nothing bad. That is what legislation is all about, consensus building.

From time to time I say nice things about Senators on this side of the aisle, and I do not often enough say nice things about those on the other side of the aisle. I want to say the presentation made by the junior Senator from Missouri is…

My friend's memory is very good. The figure is $67 billion. And people wait in traffic and waste 5.6 billion gallons of gasoline every year.

I owe so much to the Senator from New Jersey, as does my whole family, and I speak for most families--I should say the vast majority of families in America, many of whom don't realize what the Senator from New Jersey has done to make their…

The Senator from New Jersey was responsible for one of the most memorable debates that I ever was present for in the Senate... They have to be put in jail. They have to be prevented from driving their cars.

I think the picture here says it all. We have on the floor now two of the majority party and two of the minority party, representing diverse areas of this country, including Wyoming, Missouri, Vermont, and Nevada... My point is that this…

You are aware, of course--that is why you are here--of ``the loss of work to other countries, while painful in the short term, will enrich the economy, his report to Congress says.'' This is the man who succeeded Lawrence Lindsey, who had…

This is his successor. I think he will maybe fit in the same shoes as Lawrence Lindsey did. So the Senator doesn't think this is such a good philosophy, that we are shipping all the jobs overseas?

My point is, and the point of the Senator from North Carolina is, this so-called bipartisan independent commission can never render anything the American public will accept because of the person that is cochairing it. Laurence Silberman is…

I do not understand how the President and the people around him could do this. Do what? Have a commission with an outline that is very weak and won't contribute very much to find out what our intelligence community did or did not do. But…

It is absolutely the case. I also ask the Senator from North Dakota, through the Chair, to respond to a statement by David Kay given to me yesterday. He said there should be an examination of how the intelligence was used by the…

Is that the same Larry Lindsey who was fired because he said the war in Iraq would cost more than $100 billion?

The Senator does recall in that book where Vice President Cheney, when Paul O'Neill said we should take a look at these deficits that are building up, and does the Senator recall--this is almost a direct quote--Vice President Cheney…

I think he is probably right, they are working for the elite of this country, people who are in the upper income brackets. Does the Senator from Illinois know of anyone else who is receiving a benefit from the tax cuts?

I close by saying again I want the Senator from Vermont and the Senator from Oklahoma to understand how much I appreciate their work on this legislation. We have to keep our eye on the prize. This is, as Senator Lott said, probably the…

If people have amendments, they can ask to meet with our staffs. We will go over the amendments to see if they are acceptable. The offices are open now. There is no reason not to be able to have the resources they need to go over this bill…

Is it also true that in the mailings and the television they do not bother to tell what is going to happen after the election that takes place in November with Medicare? Because I believe--and think the Senator from Massachusetts…

So the Senator is saying, not only are taxpayers' dollars being spent to promote a bad Medicare program, but that the advertising is being done by the President's own reelection media team?

I was struck by the statement made by the Senator from Iowa, that this budget includes not a penny for our troops and the other programs we have going on in Iraq. The question I ask the Senator is, Does this kind of remind you of what took…