This is his successor. I think he will maybe fit in the same shoes as Lawrence Lindsey did. So the Senator doesn't think this is such a good philosophy, that we are shipping all the jobs overseas?

My point is, and the point of the Senator from North Carolina is, this so-called bipartisan independent commission can never render anything the American public will accept because of the person that is cochairing it. Laurence Silberman is…

It is absolutely the case. I also ask the Senator from North Dakota, through the Chair, to respond to a statement by David Kay given to me yesterday. He said there should be an examination of how the intelligence was used by the…

I was relieved that the President decided he was going to appoint an independent panel to review what took place in our going to Iraq, but after he made the decision to do that and appointed the panel, it was obvious it was just a hoax…

I do not understand how the President and the people around him could do this. Do what? Have a commission with an outline that is very weak and won't contribute very much to find out what our intelligence community did or did not do. But…

You are aware, of course--that is why you are here--of ``the loss of work to other countries, while painful in the short term, will enrich the economy, his report to Congress says.'' This is the man who succeeded Lawrence Lindsey, who had…

I am not a scientist, but I am a historian. I understand history. I know, for example, in 1844 Congress was approached by a man who said: I want to revolutionize the communications systems in this country. He asked Congress to appropriate…

Mr. President, I say, through you to the majority leader, one of the things we have appreciated on this side during the tenure of the Senator from Tennessee as majority leader is that you have been very good to us, with rare exception, in…

In Nevada, the State legislature, last session, had a debate on whether or not they would have primary seatbelt requirements for the people of Nevada. They did something interesting. The State now has a law that requires seatbelts for…

Yes. When I served in the House of Representatives, I was on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I was dumbfounded. We have all this surplus food and we would take it to other continents, for example, to Africa, and the food would never get…

as Senator Inhofe has already stated, our staffs worked hard over the weekend on amendments people have to this most important legislation. We have gone over many amendments, but have approved 34 amendments we would accept. These are good…

in 1965, when Congress created Medicare to provide health care security for our senior citizens, it took less than a year for that to be considered and then put into full operation; in fact, 11 months. That was back before we had…

Major Eisenhower was asked to bring a caravan of military vehicles across the country. He did it, but it was not easy because the roads were impassable on occasions. The people in the convoy had to work on roads as they came across the…

I was in this Chamber just a few days ago singing the laurels of my friend from Arizona and saying what a fine man I thought he was, what great work he did on campaign finance reform. I was basically talking about my deep respect and…

I close by saying again I want the Senator from Vermont and the Senator from Oklahoma to understand how much I appreciate their work on this legislation. We have to keep our eye on the prize. This is, as Senator Lott said, probably the…

We talk about job creation. Here it is actually taking place. This bill will be responsible for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs in this country--millions of jobs. For every $1 billion we spend in infrastructure, we create…

Absolutely. I would respond to my friend, yes. I have been in on the negotiations, yes. This is not something that has taken place over the last 2 weeks. This committee--Senator Inhofe, Senator Jeffords, Senator Bond, and Senator Reid has…

If people have amendments, they can ask to meet with our staffs. We will go over the amendments to see if they are acceptable. The offices are open now. There is no reason not to be able to have the resources they need to go over this bill…

Through the Chair, I say to the distinguished Democratic leader, as someone who has worked on this highway bill to get it to the point where it is now, I very much appreciate the team work that has been shown with the majority and…

If I could just ask one more question. I know how busy the leader is, but as I was reading my news clips today, and as I was listening to the distinguished majority leader talk about what a great bill this Medicare bill is and how that now…

I commend my friend, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Inhofe, for his steadfastness in attempting to move this most important bill that the Chair just reported. He has worked hard on this for months. This week he has worked hard on…

So the Senator is saying, not only are taxpayers' dollars being spent to promote a bad Medicare program, but that the advertising is being done by the President's own reelection media team?

Is it also true that in the mailings and the television they do not bother to tell what is going to happen after the election that takes place in November with Medicare? Because I believe--and think the Senator from Massachusetts…

While the ranking member and the chairman are in the Chamber, I wish to express my appreciation--and I think that of the entire Senate--for the bipartisan bill that is now going to be part of this highway bill. These two men--the senior…

This bill is so much more fair to all 50 States than the bill in 1982, and the three subsequent bills. Some States prior to 1982 didn't even get 80 cents of every dollar they paid into the trust fund. This bill took a gigantic step, and…