Harry Reid

When we talk here about 'internationalizing the effort,' we do so not only to help Iraq succeed, we do so in order to take some of the enormous pressure off of our young men and women.

I am most concerned, as I know you are, for their safety and about when they can finally return from what has become a rather long deployment.

I hope you will communicate to them at every occasion how grateful the American people are for their service.

We appreciate you being here today to explain this massive supplemental budget request.

We do not want anyone to think we are scheduling the Senate's business around four Democratic Senators who are running for President. This is an important piece of legislation. This one appropriations bill is, I think, about $30-odd…

As the Democratic manager of this bill, it has been your intention, has it not, to have this as, if not the most important vote, one of the most important votes in this multibillion dollar bill? I think it is about a $125 billion bill you…

I echo the statement I made earlier today following the statement by Senator Allen with simply this caveat: I would say that statement is totally accurate with the exception of the fact that we now have approved an additional judge. Now…

The fact is, Miguel Estrada didn't respond to questions that we thought appropriate and didn't divulge information in the form of memos from the Solicitor's Office. The reason he is different than some others who worked in that same office…

I say through you to the manager and distinguished majority leader that we are going to cooperate in every way we can to move this most important piece of legislation. We have eight appropriations bills and a short time to complete them…

This is the Reid-Bingaman amendment. It is offered in that way, and it was meant to be offered in that way because of the work he has done for the many years prior to this. The question I would like to ask the Senator: One of the…

If I could, briefly, before the majority leader leaves, if the proposal is the bill that passed the Senate 88-11 last year be brought to the Senate floor today in the form it passed, you got yourself a deal.

Well, to be very direct to the Senator from New Mexico, as I want to be, the majority leader has told us we are going to vote on cloture tomorrow on the attorney general of Alabama, Mr. Pryor. We have had no opportunity to debate this. We…

I say not only did President Johnson sign that extraordinary bill--38 years ago?

I say to my friend, I have no authority. I am dealing with five Senators who are all Senators in their own right. I am here just trying to help a little and take phone calls from them, things of that nature. Some of them, frankly, are out…

I think realistically if Senator Cantwell's is going to be the next amendment, it will be very difficult to finish all of the electricity amendments tonight. There are other people who want to offer amendments.

All day we have heard that we are slow- walking this bill. In an effort to help manage what goes on here, we have asked the Senator from California who has a CAFE amendment to be the next in order. We have 382 amendments. We have about…

But even at that time, even if the other two amendments were gone, the alternatives are, as the Senator said, second-degreeing the amendment or disposing of it with a motion to table or some other thing. But just to agree to withdraw it, I…

I have always believed and always will believe that he is a man of the highest caliber as far as integrity goes. I have served in government for many years. There is no one I would put above Senator Durbin for basic morality.

I hope there is some consideration given to people who are in New York City, Las Vegas, all of the States--Orlando, FL, where we have Disney World--that have these large numbers of tourists come from various parts of our country and around…

I would, however, say that doesn't take away from the fact part of the President's Web site indicates that he reads every word of his speeches, especially his State of the Union speeches, and works on it on a word-by-word basis.

One of the concerns I have and the reason we need some definition for the obligations of these men and women in the Guard and Reserve is that we are having trouble in Nevada recruiting new people for the Guard and Reserve. These weekend…

So I hope my colleagues will listen very closely to this debate and approve the amendment of the Senator from West Virginia. It is very simple. If someone is a guard or reservist, they will be deployed no more than 180 days, and if they…

So for approximately a tenth of that time, we have been blocked from giving these hard-working men and women, who are not drawing welfare, they are not out being bums and in gangs, they are people of all ages who want to work for a living…

The minimum wage, I am confident the Senator would acknowledge, is not some wild-eyed idea that someone came up with in the last 5 or 10 years. It is true, is it not, that the minimum wage legislation was initiated during the Great…

No. 1, the Senator has mentioned, and I want to ask if the Senator will emphasize this, that the minimum wage is a program in which 40 percent of the people who draw minimum wage are women; is that true?