Harry Reid

Is the Senator aware that this legislation about which the Senator from Pennsylvania speaks has been written and authored by these two radical Democrats by the name of Bob Graham from Florida and Zell Miller of Georgia, who both have…

Is the Senator also aware that this legislation about which the Senator speaks has been endorsed by many organizations and groups in America, including the AARP?

This is just an excuse not to go to the bill. We are wasting time that should be used on prescription drugs. That is what we have tried to establish today. We are wasting time when we should be dealing with the bill itself, not talking…

I would say that the bill we are working on here was reported out of the HELP Committee by a 16-to-5 vote; 5 Republicans voted to bring it to the floor. That is why we were so stunned when we weren't able to go to the bill. I also say that…

I asked the Senator from Pennsylvania if he would give us an up-or-down vote on the Graham-Miller prescription drug benefit plan.

Let me respond to my friend. I also understand this, that you have stalled for 2 days, at least. I think we can count Friday as another stall day.

I still ask my friend for the third time, if we have no Levin amendment, it would seem to me this newly created board would still have authority to do what the Senator is talking about.

I am just curious. I am not sure I should get involved at this stage because the Senator knows the subject so well, but this board that is set up in this proposed law, they would not have authority to do that on their own?

I say to my friend, would the Senator consider my proposal to have relevant amendments debated--and the relevancy would be determined by the Chair--for a half hour on each one of those and, at the end of the half hour, have a vote…

But in spite of all this, I want the Record to be spread with the fact that we have a good piece of legislation. I would like, as I said before, to have some of the fancier upholstery----

I think the Senator really condensed what is going on in corporate America. It needs to be changed, and hopefully this legislation will help that.

That is my hope. One of the reasons we want to dispose of the second-degree amendment--Senator Enzi, who has worked with you and others on the underlying amendment, is going to move to table. We hope we can move to the Edwards amendment…

I am very disappointed. This is a matter that the President has talked about needing to move forward. I assume the objection is on the number of Senators in the conference. If this legislation is important, I would hope the President would…

My friend from Alaska said if something happens and one of these casks is breached, there will be an explosion. But understand, standing within 3 feet of a spent fuel rod is a lethal dose--three feet. It will kill you. It may not kill you…

I felt so strongly about that issue that I filed an amicus curiae brief joining with the GAO to have him divulge that information. I will bet a significant number of the 261-plus companies met with him to develop the energy policy this…

The Senator mentioned the 260-plus companies that make up NEI. Is the Senator aware that there is a lawsuit now pending to have the Vice President of the United States divulge who he met with at those energy companies and what they talked…

National Geographic this month has a wonderful article on nuclear waste. Among other things, it confirms what we have known for a long time. The nuclear reactors in America and around the world are 97 percent inefficient. That means you…

Five years for them to cool down. So I say to my friend from California, all this talk about we need to have one site, we don't need to have 131 sites--the fact is, they are always going to have spent fuel at the sites of the…

I will say quickly that this document about which my friend from Alaska refers is not worth the paper on which it is written. It talks about 4,300 shipments on trains--they have no trains at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles from any train. This…

A little simple math: 77,000 tons now exist. They can move at most 3,000 tons to someplace; let's say Yucca Mountain. These reactors produce over 2,000 tons. I repeat, the math is not very much. The big lie has been the fact that they say…

On behalf of the secretary of state of Nevada, who I indicated earlier worked closely with the Senator from Connecticut in bringing forward a very good election reform bill--he is very progressive, and a fine secretary of state--throughout…

I am truly disappointed. People from Nevada and all over the country need this legislation. As the majority leader said, we should work out some way to move this forward. It is too bad one Senator is holding this up.

The reason the Senator has talked about dropouts is because by keeping a child in school we save our society money, time, and aggravation; is that a fair statement?

87 percent of the people in our prison system are high school dropouts. I think that says it all.

It is fair to say, is it not, that each day that goes by there are more people around the world and more women around the world who have this lack of information and unintended pregnancies and complicated pregnancies that could be helped…