Harry Reid

The fact is, it is very important that we do everything we can to ratify this treaty, and also the Nunn-Lugar money has been some of the money that has been most well spent. I do not know of any money we have spent in recent years that has…

I have spoken to both managers of the bill. Senator Dorgan and I have an amendment. It is simple in nature. I think it is something that should be accepted. It is something that could be reviewed in conference. It would require an…

One last question I will ask the Senator. Based on your experience and my experience, is it a fair statement to say that on our agenda items we may not win every one of them, we may not prevail on every one of them, but wouldn't it be…

There are some who say, once you go off Medicare, then you can't go back on for a certain period of time. And now there are hundreds of thousands of them in the country who have been dropped from the managed care entities. Don't you think…

There are senior citizens now who have chosen to go off Medicare, who are now without any managed care, without any ability to get health care; is that right?

But is it not also true, in relation to the Patients' Bill of Rights, that all over this country managed care entities are dropping senior citizens?

Even though we both acknowledge it is more important legislation, would the Senator tell me why it is important in April of 1999 that that legislation be completed prior to a bill that would give the 12 million people who are desperately…

But tell me, isn't it true--you have been the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee; you have been on that committee for many years that is looking to litigation which will transpire as a result of computers not working properly after…

For 40 percent of all of these women who draw minimum wage, that is the only money they get for themselves and their families; is that true?

I ask the Senator: You have talked about minimum wage. It is true, is it not, as you have said, that 60 percent of the people who draw minimum wage are women? Is that true?

But the question I direct to my friend from Nevada--and there is no one who has worked harder on this issue than he has--is that it is my understanding that there is a consensus being developed by the administration and the Secretary of…

The last question I direct to my friend is this: Is it also true that this is being done outside of the auspices and outside of the control and direction of the two Senators from Nevada?

We have over 1 million people, men and women, in prison in this country. Let's round it off and say we have 1 million people in prison, and 820,000 of those people in prison, men and women, have not graduated from high school. If there…

Does the Senator think it rings hollow in the ears of the governing body of the Clark County school trustees that we will be able to debate these issues ``some later time'' with the budget facing them within a few days? That doesn't ring…

This year, in a relatively small community of Las Vegas, we had to hire in one school district alone 2,000 new teachers. Now, we are talking about nationwide, as I understand this very important legislation that the Senator from Washington…

Isn't it true that the State of Nevada is the fastest growing State in the Union and Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in the Union?

I also say to the Senator from Massachusetts in the form of a question, isn't it true that each one of these amendments we have asked to have a hearing on, that we are being gagged on, isn't it true we would agree to a very, very short…

Is it also true that one of the movers of the underlying bill has been the Senator from Oregon, Senator Wyden? Hasn't he been one that has been speaking out all across the country in the State of Oregon on the importance of Ed-Flex? I say…

There are a lot of good programs in the country. That is the whole point of this amendment, that we have to have these amendments, these different programs available to everybody in the country. Then the school districts can pick and…

I say to the Senator from New Mexico I went to a high school that had a few hundred kids in it. I moved from a very small rural town in Nevada to what I thought was a very, very big high school. The size of that school today is…

But I believe there is nothing more important than keeping our children in school. All these other things I support, and I am behind them all the way. In fact, would the Senator agree with me that perhaps it is more important to keep our…

We talk about this being an emergency. Think of the fact that 82 percent of the men and women in our prisons around this country are high school dropouts.

It is stunning to think that 3,000 children drop out of high school every day. Is that difficult to comprehend?

Yes. I also say, before yielding, as the Senator from Illinois has already pointed out, that it is tremendous to have someone who has been in the classroom teaching children. We talk about it from an outside perspective, but the Senator…

I appreciate the statement of the majority leader. He has been very gracious in reaching out to this side of the aisle on the standards that are going to be initiated and actually used during the impeachment proceedings. I think that the…