my friends have agreed to set aside the pending amendment and I ask consent that be done, and I then call up my amendment which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill…

may I ask the distinguished ranking member of the subcommittee to allow me to make a brief statement?

It has been about 10 years. As I said here yesterday, I don't know why, even though it is a flawed measure they sent us, I don't know why they have moved forward. Maybe it is because we stood up and said there will be no congressional pay…

Again, we live in this ``land of Oz.'' The conferees had signed off on the conference report dealing with pensions. Basically, there had been an agreement, and they were going to put in that, as conferences are able to do, the extenders…

I say to my friend, like they pay for everything else. My 16 grandchildren are going to be paying for it, and their children are going to be paying for it. You talk about a death tax; the estate tax is not a death tax. What this…

Of course, we should consider it. I say through the Chair to my friend from Illinois, we are in this predicament because the Republicans have put us here. We are spending an inordinate amount of time on seeing if they can run up a debt of…

Legislative heaven, obviously, for the Republicans in this Congress is the estate tax.

This increases the national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars. I ask my friends on the other side of the aisle, how could you let this happen? I say that. I plead: How can you let this happen? We will try to stop it. We would like a…

I have expressed to the majority leader my disappointment in not allowing amendments on this bill. We had agreed to just have five, with time agreements on each of those. The leader decided not to do that. I think that is unfortunate. I…

Then we should pass it, and I will get the floor and move on. Mr. McCONNELL. How much time remains? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 14 minutes. Mr. McCONNELL. I yield the remainder of the time on this side.

I yield all of our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is on third reading and passage of the joint resolution. The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 86) was ordered to a third reading, was read the third time…

I ask that the time during the quorum call be charged equally against both sides. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. No time is remaining on the side of the proponents.

there may be other Members of the Senate who have served as police officers during their careers, sitting Members of the Senate. But I served as a Capitol police officer when I was going to school back here. I worked the swing shift. I…

I say to my friend, this was on a bipartisan vote. On a bill cosponsored by the two people who take care of our armed services, Senators Levin and Warner, 79 Senators voted for that, and the law of the country as we speak is that the year…

wildfires have already burned almost 300,000 acres in Nevada this year, and over 1.7 million acres were destroyed by fire last year. One particularly devastating fire last year burned over 500,000 acres in southern Nevada. Well-established…

First, my coming here is just as the Senator indicated. How can we, the Senate of our country, leave here with the raging civil war going on and our troops are right in the middle of it? How can we leave here without changing the course in…

1 month ago on June 22, the Senate held a debate about the raging and intractable war in Iraq. That debate, Democrats--led by Senators Levin and Jack Reed--gave voice to the concerns of the American people and advocated that the Bush…

I say to my friend, that is what is so concerning to me, that they are following--they, the Republican Senators, are following President Bush, stay the course, stay the course in Iraq. It breaks my heart, frankly. Every day I get up. This…

I didn't mention this in our private conversation, but we are going to do the Defense bill hopefully before we leave, and the one thing we haven't talked about is the Intelligence authorization bill. That has been reported out of the…

Hopefully, her surprise visit to Lebanon is not a continuation of the Bush photo-op -- photo-op foreign policy. 'Mission accomplished.' 'Bring 'em on.' I hope it's not a photo-op again, but a serious effort to follow up calls for American…

the majority leader should be here momentarily. I suggest the absence of a quorum.

I yield the Senator 3 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.

There is a definitive set of books written about this time period by Taylor Branch. When I read the first volume, I went over to the office of Congressman John Lewis because his name was mentioned in that book so often that a number years…

with respect to the debate time today regarding the stem cell legislation, I ask unanimous consent that the Democratic time be controlled as follows: From 10:30 to 11 a.m, Senators Lautenberg, Clinton, and Mikulski each controlling 10…

America needs a new direction not only in what is going on in Iraq but what is going on with medical research. We will take a step in that direction by passing H.R. 810. A vote against H.R. 810, regardless of how Members vote on the other…