It is easy to determine refiner margins, which is simply refiner costs plus profits. You simply take the published spot or wholesale price of gasoline and subtract the price of crude oil. I have chosen the spot price in Los Angeles because…

I believe--although I am never certain--that cloture will not be invoked on the asbestos bill. The reason I mention that is I think the work done by Senators Feinstein, Hatch, Kyl, and Leahy has been tremendous on this piece of legislation…

right before we had our break we were asked, Senator Daschle and I, to see what we could do to move the FSC bill along. The majority has affixed the name the jobs and opportunity bill, or something like that. We have always known the…

I would agree with my friend, the former attorney general of Texas, the PATRIOT Act has made America a safer place. I think that is a fair statement. But I would also say the PATRIOT Act is something we have to watch very closely. We…

Today, April 20th, is being observed as Equal Pay Day. I wish I could say it is a celebration of Equal Pay for women. But it isn't. Instead, this day symbolizes the fact that women continue to earn only 77 percent as much as men, 77 cents…

I would say I agree with my friend that the situation in Iraq is not a Vietnam. But it is Iraq. I would hope the comparisons made to Korea and Japan and Germany do not apply. We, of course, in Korea lost 55,000 troops there who died, with…

the situation we have here is just like Las Vegas. This resolution is 333, just by chance. This is the third year in a row the women have won the national championship. Those two teams have been so lucky, maybe they should spend a little…

for 38 months, the Bush administration has had job loss. We join in the celebration that we have had jobs created, and the President during the next 7 months until the election will have to create another 2.5 million jobs to not be known…

Is the distinguished Democratic leader aware that the work done in the Senate bill--$318 billion for transit and highways--was done on a bipartisan basis? I have been chairman of that full committee on two occasions. I understand it. I…

Today is the 77th birthday of someone whom I admire greatly, Cesar Chavez. He was born March 31, 1927. I never had the opportunity to meet Cesar Chavez. I came close a couple of times, but I never had the opportunity to meet him. He was a…

this legislation has been long in coming. Senator McCain and I have worked on this for months. I think it is a tremendous step forward. It is a perfect example of how we have to cooperate with each other. This is not everything that…

we have an opportunity to, based on the statement of the Senator from Kentucky, move some of this legislation. But I cannot understand why, when we finish running one race, we have to immediately go to the other race. We need a little time…

So this is an issue that doesn't relate to kids at McDonald's flipping hamburgers. It relates to people supporting their families. I greatly admire the Senator for being the lead person on this amendment dealing with the minimum wage that…

It is true, is it not, that 60 percent of the people who draw the minimum wage are women?

And for 40 percent of those women, that is the only money they get for them and their families?

I wish the people I work with in the Senate knew my father. My father was named Harry Reid, the same name I have. I always looked up to my dad. My dad was uneducated. He didn't graduate from eighth grade, but he was very smart. My father…

I was asked to appear on a television show this afternoon, and I was happy to do that. The reason I appeared on the show was to respond to some TV ads that are starting tomorrow where the Bush campaign is paying millions of dollars to run…

I hope Senator Ensign and I are able to be on the same team working here in the Senate as the University of Nevada at Reno was during this basketball season. We strive to do that. They have set a good example for us and for everyone. We…

when you cannot attack a man's ideas, attack the man. Sadly, that is what we have seen over the last few days in the case of Richard Clarke, a dedicated public servant. Before this week, few Americans knew who Mr. Clarke was. But now…

I also ask, through the Chair to the distinguished Democratic leader, it is also true, is it not, that 173 judges have been approved; we have been, through your direction, very selective and turned down five, two of whom the President has…

No one would ever question his business acumen and his Republican Party credentials. He, as Secretary of the Treasury, didn't think the President conducted his office appropriately. He was asked to resign and left and wrote a book about…

We agree on this side that the bill that Senator Baucus and Senator Grassley worked to bring to the floor is very important for our country. We think it is so important that we are willing to basically say, on the overtime amendment…

if the distinguished majority leader will yield for a brief comment, we recognize, as has been stated by this Senator and other Senators on this side of the aisle, this is a bill which we have been on for 3 days. As the distinguished…

the junior Senator from Arizona is someone for whom I have the highest regard. He is articulate. He always makes a good presentation. I am glad he is a neighbor of the great State of Nevada. But I have to say the one question he didn't…

last week, I was in Nevada and I visited a number of police stations and fire stations. Let me direct our attention to the Henderson Police Department that I met with. The chief, the deputy chief, and a number of police officers were…