Harry Reid

Does the Senator recognize how appreciative the rest of the Senators are on the Democratic side for his leadership in exposing what is wrong with campaign finance on the Federal level in America? Is the Senator aware of how much we…

Even in Silicon Valley, where there has been tremendous success and which has been the driving force of the high-tech industry, with the expensive homes, the Democratic version would help people there, wouldn't it?

The other thing I ask the Senator is every State--I should not say every State because I am not certain it is true but I believe it is true--every State in the Union has an inheritance tax; if not every State, virtually every State. The…

Of course it would, I say to my friend, because even though the estates there are bigger than a lot of places, we are talking about raising this to millions of dollars.

Its neighbor, the State of Nevada, the State I represent, has approximately 2 million people. The State of Nevada, under the old formula, does the Senator understand, has only 308 taxable estates?

We believe there should be some slack cut for child care programs that we have discussed on the Senate floor. And it would not be a bad idea to do something with afterschool programs and a number of other areas that help the working men…

In addition to that, we are saying the really rich in this country, rather than give them a tax break, we should look at giving a tuition tax credit for people who want to send their children to college.

We want to, in effect, exclude most every small business and small farm in America from the estate tax.

It would increase the general exemption from $1.35 million per couple to $2 million per couple in 2 years, by the year 2002; and $4 million per couple by the year 2010.

Is the Senator aware this makes just a few estates every year even subject to the tax?

I say to my friend, for each child who is kept from graduating from school, does the Senator recognize the cost on our society when that child drops out of school? Mr. President, 3,000 children drop out of school each day. It costs our…

The Senator recognizes that the minority, the Democrats, recognize this, and we want to increase the size of the estates that are not subject to the inheritance tax.

I further say to the Senator, as I understand it, in the second 10 years of this bill, we are talking not about millions; we are talking about billions. We are talking $750 billion. The Senator is saying if we had the Cadillac of…

What does that do to people who work for $30,000 a year who have a child or children? It makes it impossible.

I was in San Francisco recently and saw a headline in the newspaper that in San Francisco, nannies--people who take care of kids--are being paid an average of $60,000 a year.

We need more money for afterschool programs. Some people have no money for the 2 or 3 hours after their child gets out of school and they get home. So we have latchkey kids, kids running in gangs. Is that where it goes bad?

If I could, just being involved on the fringes of this legislation, I think with the work of Senator Levin and Senator Warner, they will complete this in two nights.

H-1B. We should revisit this issue. If the Senator wants to reintroduce his unanimous consent request tomorrow, fine. Let's see if we can come up with something that will meet the timeframe of what the majority leader wishes. As I have…

I think this is Mississippi math because we started at 10 and kind of split the difference.

We really should have H-1B passed. It does not mean everybody is in favor of it, but it is something that needs to be done. It is very important legislation. We need to have the matter debated. I hope the leader will take back the colloquy…

I also want to express my support for the efforts outlined in this bill to reduce medical errors. It is my hope that these measures will set us on the path of constructively addressing this troubling issue.

Respectfully, I know how hard the Senator from Pennsylvania and the Senator from Iowa worked on this measure. But with this hanging over our heads, we might as well get this resolved now. We have spent 3 or 4 days on this bill already. If…

I think it has done so much good across the country to have people such as Danielle Steel and Kay Jamison, who are experts, to come in and talk about their experiences. I am grateful to you for doing this, as I think anyone is who has had…

Well, I didn't. I can only comment on what I read in the papers. But I know when somebody's ear is bitten, as Tyson did to Holyfield, and it is unfair; that is what happened here today. I am not a member of the Judiciary Committee, but I…

One of the amendments, the Senator is aware, the Lautenberg amendment, deals with gun safety. Are you aware there are precedents for gun control amendments to education bills? In fact, is the Senator aware that in 1994, Senator Gramm of…