I want to say to all those folks who would be critical, this does not make it mandatory for a weapon to be on the flight deck. This says they are able to take one if they are comfortable with one. I point to American Airlines Flight 11…

I cannot find the words I want for Mike Mansfield--their meaning--and put them together like our good friend from West Virginia. He knew Michael almost as long as I did. But Mike has moved on. His work here on Earth is done. His legacy…

I thank the Senator for his time and appreciate that we quit monkeying around and that we get it done. But in those areas that really concern us about airport security, we are pretty close. We can agree on that. So I think we ought to keep…

we have been talking about aviation security. While the chairman of the Commerce Committee is still in the Chamber, I want to get a few things straight. The amendment that is hanging out there for this piece of legislation has nothing to…

I was going to stay out of this, but the Senator is correct; nothing will stimulate travel more than a strong sense of security. It has to be visible. People have to see the measures that are being taken to make it viable and to give them…

I thank my good friend from Wyoming. When we examine this issue, we find several approaches we have to take a look at. We do want to move forward on it because there is a sense of urgency, if not in this body, in America. Last weekend when…

How loaded was that? I think there are still disagreements among leadership. I could not do that personally. If it were in my power--which it is not--I am a soldier around here and everybody in the world is smarter than I am--I am ready to…

ironically, on September 11 of this year, I was involved in a press conference looking at a report card to Congress on the deployment of E-911, the national emergency number. Last year, we passed that bill and the President signed it, with…

on September 11, 2001, the United States suffered the worst combined acts of domestic terrorism in our Nation's history. The world stood shocked and outraged at unprovoked acts of violence committed upon thousands of innocent Americans…

S. 805, introduced on May 1, is a vital step toward the day when advanced research will find ways to halt, and even cure, life-threatening muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder, actually a number of separate…

Today prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in America. According to estimates by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute, NCI, more than 198,000 American men will learn that they have…

I thank the President of the United States for his selection, moving the two judges from Montana; I thank Senator Leahy, my good friend; we have served together in a lot of different capacities, it seems, over the last 12 years; and my…

I concur with Chairman Byrd and can assure the Senator from Virginia that the restoration of the Arlington House will receive our attention during the conference with the House of Representatives. We will make every effort to address the…

I watched the debate with a great deal of interest. I can only think of the amendment a little while ago that was offered by the Senator from Illinois. The Minerals Management Service has been working on this lease sale for quite a while…

If that resource is there and it can be done in an environmentally sensitive way, why is that bad or wrong?

I am recommending that this body pass the Interior appropriations bill for fiscal year 2002. I come from an agricultural background. I was raised on a small farm in northwest Missouri. My dad always had a little saying: When you look like…

I tell my good friend, it is that kind of mind-set that said we are going to save the suckerfish in Klamath Falls, OR, and it takes precedence over 1,500 families and their future and our ability to provide food and fiber for this country…

We had the Secretary of the Interior up in Montana. In the upper Missouri, which was designated as a national monument, I tell my good friend from Illinois, we asked the Secretary, No. 1, to find the gas well and then find the pipeline…

The figures the Senator cited are from a USGS survey taken in 1995. Those figures have changed and moved up. No. 2, if he doesn't want people to drill there, where can they drill? How many people in this body or in this town drove an…

I do not think our system is complicated. I think we are moving a piece of legislation that is going to complicate it. Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, it has grown more complicated all the time. If one thinks HMOs are hard…

I rise today to detail my support of the Rural Health Care Improvement Act of 2001, which was introduced today by Senator Conrad and is cosponsored by myself and a number of my colleagues from rural States across this Nation. The Rural…

as you know, I had a little round with the surgeon during our Easter break. I got a get-well card from a good friend who lives in Montana, something that would come out of sort of cowboy lore or out of a cowboy camp. I knew this man's…

We are hearing a lot of words with regard to policy and money, and basically money will not be a part of this debate and should not be a part of this debate. There is a good reason for that. We hear stories--some of them are not too…

I rise today, to introduce the Technology Depreciation Reform Act of 2001. This bill will update the U.S. Tax Code to reflect the evolution of the computer and other high-tech industries. High-tech hardware is subjected to an outdated tax…

we have been talking about energy today. I rise now to talk about this Nation's struggle to deal with a threatening energy situation that is affecting our economy. I don't think there is any other issue that will come before Congress that…