Don Nickles

There was $8 billion and there is still $4 billion on the table the States have not utilized for the unemployment compensation?

My colleague mentioned the Workforce Investment Act that passed unanimously through the Senate and for whatever reasons our colleagues on the minority side have not agreed to the appointment of conferees. This is a bill that would help…

you don't have to do much more than open the morning newspaper or turn on the evening news to understand that the enemies of freedom are working hard in Iraq. They lay ambushes for our troops, set off bombs by remote control, and drive…

I happen to think we do. Because we passed a budget last year, we saved hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of spending over a 10-year period of time. The budget resolution helped make that possible. So I hope we will still be able to…

The President's proposal increases from $218 billion to $257 billion, an increase of 17 percent.

I, too, am disappointed that we were unable to consider the amendment of the Senator from North Dakota. I look forward to working with him and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Finance Committee to find a way to fulfill the commitment…

I wish to speak on the issue in the highway bill on which Senator McCain raised a budget point of order. I am not sure I would have made it at this point, but a point of order is legitimate. Frankly, if you believe in sustaining the…

I did not usually put Montana and saints in the same sentence, but I understand the Montana Saints prevailed and I wish to congratulate the Senator from Montana.

Over the 6 years, a 17-percent increase. The bill before the Senate in contract authority is an increase of 46 percent.

It is 46 percent over the 6-year period. You have a 6- year bill. The bill that just expired, TEA-21, was $218 billion over 1998-2003. This new bill will be a total of, for contract authority, $308 billion; total budget authority would be…

I agree that the pending transportation bill is not the place to consider budget enforcement provisions within the Budget Committee's jurisdiction. Even though the budget enforcement provisions in this bill are meaningless in the absence…

I will make a couple of editorial comments. I love the chart. He said if we went at last month's pace of 1,000 jobs being created, it would take 200 years. That was 1,000 jobs last month. Over the last 5 months, 280,000 jobs were created…

Senator Kennedy is my friend. We debated this issue a couple of times. In the past many months, I guess for the last year and a half, there has been an effort to turn a 13-week program into a 26-week program. I have objected to that very…

I compliment Senator Domenici, the chairman of the committee. He stated at the beginning of the year that he was going to produce a very comprehensive Energy bill, and he has done it. I have been in the Senate for 23 years. I have been on…

we scored in the budget, I believe, $18 billion for this bill. This bill will score close to $30 billion, for the information of the Senator. It scores that way for a couple of reasons. One, the tax provision. Also, there is a provision…

One of the lower points is the way judges have been treated in the last 2 years. In my previous 21 years, we never had a filibuster on a judge, and I never heard colleagues say, Wait a minute, President Clinton had nominees and they…

I commend the Senators from Arizona and Virginia for their leadership on this important issue. When the Air Force's original proposal to lease 100 tankers looked like a done deal a couple of months ago, both of these Senators stood up and…

The Senator's rationale for agreeing to this compromise, whereby the total number of tankers to be leased was reduced by 80 percent, relied on the Congressional Budget Office's conclusion that the fewer planes that the Air Force leased…

I agree. If the Defense Department proceeds accordingly, namely under the current contact, it will be attempting to meet its priorities through very many of the same convoluted means that were proposed under the original agreement--means…

I understand that the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that if the Air Force implements the compromise by acquiring the tankers under two separate contracts, gets budget authority at the time it orders its planes, and pays…

I appreciate the difficult challenges that the Chairman is facing as he puts together the FY 2004 Agriculture Appropriations bill. I thank him for his attention to this very important need and for his willingness to work with me to address…

I rise today regarding the United States Department of Agriculture Southern Plains Range Research Station in Woodward, OK. As you know, the Agricultural Research Service is currently undergoing a facility modernization at the Southern…

in the time since major combat in Iraq has ended and peacekeeping and transitional operations have begun, the United States, our allies and the Iraqi people have accomplished much. The men and women of our armed forces in particular…

S. 1426, the fiscal year 2004 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act for 2004, as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations provides $18.1 billion in discretionary budget authority and $20.3…

first I congratulate Senator Shelby for his management of this bill. This is an appropriations bill. The budget authority of this bill is actually less than last year's level. And the outlays under this bill, as far as the outlays that are…