I ask the Senator to yield so the Senator from California can offer an amendment. She will speak for up to 20 minutes. In the meantime, Senator Domenici has a piece of paper you are probably interested in, and that would probably move this…

I rise to discuss the energy bill that we will consider over the next 2 weeks. Senators Domenici and Bingaman should be commended for their bipartisan work in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to bring us to this point today. The…

Do we have consent on the vote? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Consent has been granted for the Senator to offer her amendment, and a series of Senators will be recognized for a set amount of time in the said order. Then the Senator from New…

Let me say, through the Chair to my friend from Florida, the Senator from New Mexico has worked very hard on this bill. Both Senators from New Mexico worked very hard. This is an issue that is difficult for reasons it probably should not…

this past Friday, I was in Cincinnati. I had some business to conduct there, but my plane got in early, and I had some time on my hands. My staff said: Would you like to go to a new museum that opened in August of 2004? I said: Sure, I…

I am terribly saddened by the death of Jim Exon. Those of us who had the opportunity to serve with him are so troubled by his death. He was an outstanding Senator. He was fair. He worked on both sides of the aisle. He protected the State…

as I expressed to the distinguished majority leader personally, and I say so today, and I have said so publicly on a number of occasions, I wish this week we had been working on something else. The fact is, we have now what I consider a…

this week marks the fortieth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that struck down a Connecticut law that had made the use of birth control by married couples illegal. This decision laid the groundwork…

the time I have left over from the 15 minutes that is from 3:30 to 3:45 I will leave to Senator Leahy. I am going to use part of his time now. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

as the Chair and distinguished majority leader know, I am sorry we have spent so much time on judges, but the fact is I wish to express my appreciation to Democratic Senators for being so cooperative. Since the agreement was made a week or…

it is my understanding the vote Monday will be around 6 o'clock rather than our normal 5:30 p.m. time.

while we have Senators in the Chamber, I wish to express, through the Chair, the appreciation of especially Senator Biden and Senator Dodd for the ends to which the majority leader went to try to resolve this issue. He spent an inordinate…

everyone here should understand that it is now the 26th day of May. This is the first filibuster that has been conducted in this Congress, if, in fact, we want to call this a filibuster--No. 1, first one. We have not been doing…

let me say at the outset, that I do not intend to vote for cloture on John Bolton, nor do I intend to support him for the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations. As I have said repeatedly since he was nominated, this is…

so we have an orderly process on our side, I would ask unanimous consent that of the time that has been allotted this side, Senator Boxer be given 45 minutes; Senator Dodd, 60 minutes; Senator Sarbanes, 15 minutes; Senator Voinovich, 30…

I rise toady to congratulate a member of our Senate family who is nearing an amazing milestone in life--68 years of marriage. On My 29, 1937, the Valedictorian of Mark Twain High School married his sweetheat--a coal miner's daughter--in…

I am sorry I was unable to be on the floor for the entire statement of the Republican leader. I think we should just move on. Filibusters are only under extraordinary circumstances. That is when you filibuster. I have been involved in two…

I also say if, in fact, there is more time needed tonight, would the distinguished leader allow Members to move past 6:30 tonight on debate.

if I could direct another question to the distinguished leader, it was my understanding of our conversation late last night that we were not going to move forward on more judges this period but move forward to other matters. Do you now…

I support the memorandum of understanding. It took the nuclear option off the table. It is gone for our lifetime. We don't have to talk about it anymore. I am disappointed there are still the threats of the nuclear option. Let's move on…

I think it would be better--I haven't had a chance to discuss this with the majority leader--to vitiate the vote on cloture and then set a time to complete the debate on Priscilla Owen. We would be willing to do that. It would move things…

I wish to respond briefly to the distinguished Republican leader's comments. Priscilla Owen has had numerous votes. She has had three that I am aware of on the Senate floor. Those votes dealt with whether we should stop debating her. The…

this is a day I have waited for for a long time. We can put the 8 years of the Clinton administration behind us, the problems he had with the judges, over 60. We can put the first 4 years of the Bush administration behind us. I have looked…

I hope I didn't inconvenience the majority with taking too much time. If I did, we will try to readjust it later. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas is recognized.

We get 5 minutes, they get 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Florida is recognized for an additional 5 minutes.