Joseph T. Burns: “If you want to close, I will make a short statement. Then we will go to the vote.”

With regard to what my friend from Hawaii has done today, I remind my colleagues that there has already been an increase in this budget since a year ago. We are basically prioritizing our money to be spent where it is supposed to be. If…

I would inquire of the Chair the order of business now is the Interior conference report; is that correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.

I rise to comment on the events of the past week. We have received word that the leading terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was the mastermind of countless brutal attacks and taking lives of members of the U.S. Armed Forces and…

I have a letter in support of my amendment from the Veterans of Foreign Wars. I ask unanimous consent that the letter in support of this amendment be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed…