Harry Reid

We have a $260 billion surplus now. I say to my friend, you know what they are saying. I was on a little debate on public television with some of them. They are scripted. I didn't realize it--I said you got this from Frank Luntz, and I…

This program is going to make the economy weaker. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to lose their jobs as a result of this program. I believe hundreds of thousands of people are going to lose jobs as a result of this program. I…

Does the Senator remember Senator Conrad Burns saying: ``So we are still going to pile up some more debt, but most of all we are going to cost jobs in this country.''

Does the Senator remember listening to Senator Wayne Allard, then a Representative, saying: "In summary, the plan has a fatal flaw; it does not reduce the deficit."

The Senator and I were in the Congress in 1993 when not a single Republican in the House or a single Republican in the Senate voted for President Clinton's Budget Deficit Reduction Act. The Senator remembers that.

Today, I got up and read the newspaper and the American Academy of Actuaries--another group similar to the Rand Corporation-- which also is not political, has said that what Governor Bush has been saying about his tax plan, his dream for…

Has the Senator noticed what happened on the floor in the last couple of days? An independent group, the Rand Corporation, that doesn't have a political bone in its body--it is independent; it is bipartisan; it is fair; and it has been…

Yes. Also, the Senator has worked since she has been in the Congress on afterschool programs and on child care. The Senator is aware that, again, Vice President Gore and the Democrats in the Senate have pushed for making sure that people…

If I could ask the Senator one more question; that is, I don't know what will happen this weekend, but I can only speak for myself and a number of other Senators with whom I have had the opportunity to speak on the phone and in person…

I ask the Democratic leader if he has ever seen in his many years in the Congress, both the House and the Senate, the casual attitude, with so few appropriations bills having been passed? We have less than 3 weeks left until the elections…

Also, we can work together to do more on boxing. If there were ever a requirement that we have spread before us, it would be to do something about the abysmal state of boxing in the world, which is controlled by the United States. Also…

I think the work done by Senator Warner and Senator Levin on this bill has been exemplary. They worked well together. This is a very important bill. We on this side, the minority, understand the importance of this legislation. I really…

Mr. Leader, if I could just say before you withdraw the consent request, we would be willing, tonight, to have you move to proceed to this measure. As I said, we would be agreeable to move to proceed to this bill by a voice vote and start…

I am seeking agreement to take up this legislation on which American lives are at stake--not money but safety and lives of Americans. I am seeking an agreement to take that up. If we could get agreement to get that bill up, with relevant…

Is the Senator also aware--which I am certain he is, but I would like to hear his response--that the Democrats' Patients' Bill of Rights is something unusual as far as this Senator is concerned, because we have the support of literally…

Did the Senator also say there are a number of converts during the last few months on issues that we have developed? Take, for example, the Patients' Bill of Rights. Isn't it true that in this body, on a straight party-line vote, there was…

Did he say the top 1 percent of the people in the Bush tax cut get almost 50 percent of all the benefits?

He needed a liver transplant. As a result of that hearing, Jamie Fisk got a liver transplant. It began a discussion in our country that the Senator from Illinois has carried on all these years about why we should be aware of the need for…

One last question that I have concerns a statement made by some of our House colleagues during House consideration of the FY 2001 Interior appropriations bill in which they suggested an interpretation of the ongoing rulemaking including…

I included language in this bill that directs the Department of Interior to finalize the so-called 3809 regulations, which govern hardrock mining operations on public lands, and to do so consistently with the findings and recommendations…

Then it makes sense for any prohibition on land acquisition referred to in the report language to apply only if to properties that satisfy all of the following criteria: (1) they are not adjacent to current forest system lands, (2) they…

I say to my friend, I am happy we are looking out for animals. I support that and was aware of that legislation, but I think it is about time we started helping some of these rural police departments in Nevada that are so underfunded and…

I say to my friend, the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Nevada is an interesting State. Seventy percent of the people in Nevada live in the metropolitan Las Vegas area. Another about 20 percent live in the Reno metropolitan area…

With all this compassionate conservatism around, do you think it would be good if the Governor of Texas interceded in this matter?

Before Senator Leahy and his brother-in-law leave, I want the good Father to know how much the Senate cares about you and Marcelle. You have expressed so well your feelings about your brother-in-law, but we want you to know how much the…