my friend from Minnesota has been a great partner on this issue. He has been very understanding. He is a very caring person, as indicated by the work he has done. He has outlined very generally and in many cases specifically the problems…

Well, I didn't. I can only comment on what I read in the papers. But I know when somebody's ear is bitten, as Tyson did to Holyfield, and it is unfair; that is what happened here today. I am not a member of the Judiciary Committee, but I…

I say to my friend, doesn't it seem logical and sensible to the Senator from Iowa that with all the deaths in schools related to guns, on an education bill we should have a conversation about gun safety in schools?

Every year, 600,000 injuries occur as a result of nurses and other health care professionals being stuck accidentally by needles. It is not because of any negligence on their part. It is because of the dangerousness of their work…

What I am saying to my friend from New Hampshire is, yes, we are willing to bring the education bill back today, tomorrow, any other time, but we do not need these self-imposed constraints. We are not the House of Representatives. We are…

One of the amendments, the Senator is aware, the Lautenberg amendment, deals with gun safety. Are you aware there are precedents for gun control amendments to education bills? In fact, is the Senator aware that in 1994, Senator Gramm of…

we know there are other things to do, but there is nothing more important to the American people--I know there is nothing more important to the people of the State of Nevada--than to do something about education. The Senator from Iowa…

I hope we can move this bill along quicker. There are lots of amendments. I think the Senator has already talked to the Appropriations Committee, and we would agree to getting a list of who wants to offer amendments so we have a finite…

But now the progress that has been made is unbelievable. What I tried to say--and the Senator from Iowa described it better than I--the same is going to apply to medicine. Ten years from now, people will think this conversation of ours was…

I say to my friend from Iowa--I did not do a very good job of describing it--had someone told Senator Harkin and I 10 years ago what is now possible with the Internet through computers, we would not have believed it. We simply would not…

over the years, I have come to the Senate floor on many occasions to talk about female genital mutilation (FGM). Still, it is very difficult for me to stand here and talk about something as repulsive, as cruel and as unusual as the…

in the capital city of India, a woman is burned to death every 12 hours. Earlier this week, NPR reported the story of a courageous survivor of a phenomenon that is commonly referred to as ``dowry deaths.'' Joti Dowan was held prisoner by…

We have been able to complete, under great difficulty, five appropriations bills. They have had hundreds of amendments. We have been able to finish those bills. I suggest the best thing to do, as I think the leader has already said he is…

I have not served in Congress nearly as long, of course, as the Senator from South Carolina, but during my term in Congress, which is now 18 years, there is no one that I have more admiration for than Senator Inouye. He has been like a…

In Las Vegas a gay man was shot to death because he was gay. In Reno, someone went to a city park with the specific purpose to find someone who was gay, found him, and killed him. These types of incidents have happened not once, not twice…

We now have 61 amendments not subjected to rule XVI, 25 Democrat, 36 Republican amendments. We want to make sure the majority understands we will do everything we can to cooperate with the majority. We would like to move this bill along as…

they set forth the problem in this letter. Among other things, this letter says: . . .the current provision in law would understandably be aimed at protecting the highest performing computers from being exported to countries of particular…

the amendment which I will offer shortly deals with a very unique situation. We certainly control the building of computers in the United States. We are the great superpower. We are also the superpower of computer development. But in spite…

I say to my friend, we have done a pretty good job on our side of the aisle. We literally only have a handful of amendments left. I think you should spend more time urging Members on your side of the aisle. We only have one amendment that…

I extend my appreciation for the work done by the managers of this bill. Also, I want to briefly focus on one amendment that was adopted. The fact that these amendments were agreed to en bloc doesn't take away from the importance of this…

The letter was very moving, about what the whole family has gone through as a result of this incident. It affected the life of not only the admiral but his entire family. I also extend my appreciation to the Senators who have been so…

I only say to my friend, we are all aware of the work the Senator has done and the love the Senator has for the military, having been one of our Secretaries. Yesterday was a very moving day, to see our President pro tempore step down here…

109 years ago, for reasons no one can quite understand, a law was passed that prevented someone who had a service-connected disability from drawing disability at the time they were drawing retirement pay from the U.S. military. If someone…

I look forward to this period of time prior to the July 4 recess, as does the entire minority. We are hopeful we can make progress on the appropriations bills, which certainly need to be accomplished. Also, I hope there will be an…

one of the things I say to my two colleagues, the chairman and the ranking member, is, if the other body is looking for additional sources of money, I think they should take a closer look at their franking practices. I am the last person…