Harry Reid

The 4.3 cents is only a small fraction of the taxes on gas that have been increased over the past decade or so in this body. Is that not true?

I will just say in closing--and I would want spread on the record--that I have spoken personally with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the House, Henry Hyde. He acknowledges the brutality of this and has indicated on the bill…

I know the Senator wants to move this bill along. But I did state that Canada made this procedure a basis for asylum 3 years ago, and they have had two people granted asylum in 3 years.

In the fall of 1994 I introduced a sense-of-the-Senate resolution condemning the cruel practice of female genital mutilation, and at that time I applauded the Government of Egypt for taking quick action against two men who performed this…

Under the Nickles-Reid amendment, if the financial impact is such, as they were told it was in southern Nevada, if there is no financial impact, we continue. But if there is a financial impact, this Congress would have a right because that…

We are going to do that in a number of different ways. We are going to allow better peer review, that is more scientific input, and also allow State and/or local government some input into whether or not the listing should take place.

The final decision would rest with the agency of jurisdiction. However, I think under the proposal of the Senator from Idaho and myself, prior to arriving at that point there would be a much more deliberative process than there is now.

One of the things we need to work on, and we are working on in the reauthorization of this bill, is to allow better science and to allow more than just the Federal agencies to have some voice in whether or not a species is threatened.

Not only was there a moratorium back in April of last year offered and passed, but in addition to that, each time we come up with a continuing resolution there is no additional funding placed, so that the Fish and Wildlife Service and the…

What this amendment does say to my colleagues is, do away with, repeal the moratorium that is on listing of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. I indicated to the Appropriations Committee when it was meeting to discuss…

Even though my friend from New Hampshire has quietly offered an amendment that has been accepted, it is extremely important. It is an amendment that I have been trying to pass for a number of years in this body. We have been successful…

I want to say, because I saw on the floor the Senator from Arizona, Senator Jon Kyl, who has been extremely helpful in preparing this legislation based upon his experience in the law and the work his staff has done, and I want to…

But as I told the Senator from New York, I have done something he has not done, and that is, I have spent a night in a homeless shelter in Las Vegas. Truly one of the remarkable experiences of my life--I do not know if "remarkable" is the…

The proponents of sight infrastructure costs as their main argument, but this facility will produce training for 50 years. I say, what is the lowest life cycle cost of 50 years? Do we care? We should care, Mr. President.

I have stood silently by for a long time now because I have the same feeling that a lot of us have, one of desperation, despair. I was forced to think about this as a result of the statement given yesterday by the Senator from the State of…

I think we need some help from the other side of the aisle to tell us how they are doing their tricks because the fact of the matter is, a health care crisis has been upon us for a long time. Suddenly, because they are presenting a budget…

I say to my friend that the Democrats are not against tax cuts. But I think we have to have our priorities in order. Do we take $90 billion away from senior citizens? As indicated, $1 out of every $3 they have they have to spend on health…

I have used as an illustration some of the things that are being done on the other side of the aisle, as being--well, they remind me some of the things that go on in Las Vegas. We have in Las Vegas the greatest magicians, illusionists in…

That means higher insurance premiums. Does it not mean that people who have no insurance go to an emergency room; and is there any higher cost of medical care any place in the country than in an emergency room?

In fact, it was not minutes or hours or days; we spent weeks on the floor talking about the health care crisis a few months ago. I am curious; is the crisis suddenly upon us regarding Medicare? The fact of the matter is, that same crisis…

If the health care costs, as they relate to Medicare, are escalating 10.7 percent a year, is it not a fact that some private systems are going up even more than that?

We should not be using those moneys, I say to my friend, those tax moneys, 12.4 percent of a person's check, for foreign aid, is that not true?

I would say, one of the misunderstandings also has been that we, those of us who supported the exemption of Social Security from the balanced budget amendment, there is a misapprehension that we did not want Social Security ever touched…

I think what has gone on during the last week or so... has been very constructive. We have had some very difficult debates on coverage, unfunded mandates, and now this balanced budget amendment. But I think these debates have been very…

I want to spread across this record one reason this debate has been so fruitful is that during the unfunded mandates debate, the Senator from Iowa offered a sense-of-the-Senate resolution to exclude Social Security from the balanced budget…