Don Nickles: “I think it would be a disastrous mistake for the Senate if you want the Senate to be a deliberative body.”

It is time for it to stand on its own. Enough is enough.

Yesterday the Senate completed action of the second of 13 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2005, the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. Although the Senate has not yet adopted a new concurrent resolution on the…

I am happy to debate my colleague, or any colleague, on the budget. We spent several days debating the budget. I am more than happy to debate it. I will tell my colleague that we basically have assumed a freeze in nondefense, non-homeland…

I have heard some statements where people are insinuating that American combat personnel are getting gypped by this bill. That is false. We are giving them a benefit they didn't have before. We are saying they can use combat pay in…