Robert Smith

The certification is being abused, the 605(b) certification. Agencies are abusing that to try and get out of having to perform small business impact analyses that the RFA requires.

I think there are a couple of steps that I would recommend. First, agencies must be forced to consider the indirect costs of the regulations on small businesses.

I think we get the appropriate communities together to ask some basic questions--what do you need? And how can we collect it and report it?

There should be a linkage between U.S. aid, military aid, and religious freedom

That must change.

I am angry to say that we are no closer to having a prescription drug program for our seniors. When the Senate debated the addition of a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program in July, there was clear agreement that such a…

I say to the American people, what few may be up this morning watching these proceedings, that this is probably our last best chance to pass prescription drugs in the 107th Congress, and I think it is critical we do so. I am optimistic we…

It has the same interest in defending the American people regardless of their minority, their race, religion, their culture, their sexual orientation, their disability, their agenda. It seems to me the government's business is not to pick…

I am committed to a resolution of this situation that enables the Steens Mountain running camp to continue its historic operations on the mountain.

The Gerald B.H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act reaffirms the Senate's support for continued enlargement of NATO, without naming any names of who should receive an invitation to join. It also demonstrates that extending security and…

My last point was you can make these arguments against any expenditure. The point is, we can't leave the States high and dry as we try to stimulate the economy. This is about real people needing jobs and health care. It is a win- win for…

My point is simply that is not enough time to do much more than buy a few typewriters or rugs for the front office. You can't make a serious business plan in that amount of time and represent to the American people that we are actually…

I rise to speak of a priority I have, that I began working on in the last session of this Congress, with my colleague, Ron Wyden, the issue of the burgeoning ranks of the uninsured. I rise to talk about that subject. I stand to say that…

In addition to amounts otherwise available, $38,000,000 from amounts pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 713a-4, for the Secretary of Agriculture to make available financial assistance to eligible producers in the Klamath Basin, as determined by the…

I want to see us do it as quickly as we can for the simple reason that businesses need to make planning and expenditures that last an awful long time. This is not unrelated to medicine and patients' health. Part of the technological…

I am here standing for the proposition that tolerance is a two-way street; that we should tolerate the gays and lesbians in our community, but we should also tolerate the Boy Scouts in our community. Clearly, there are some groups that…

It is time to vote on this tax cut so we can get to education and deal with some of the issues Senators have identified. For the sake of the American people, it is time to vote.

We believe that expanding health insurance to millions of hard working low-income Americans will relieve the uncertainty and fear many people face, knowing that they are one illness away from losing their life savings or their home. It is…

I want to point out, as Senator Craig has, that the fundamental flaw in these proposals of cost-plus, or caps, is that they leave in place California's retail cap. As we speak, California's consumption is going up. As California's…

I say to the Senator, I do think we should debate it longer than we have. I grant you that. What I have observed, as a junior Member, however, is that every time we go to focus on amendments, we can't get time agreements. We can't get…

It seems fair to me, I say to the Senator. I will certainly encourage my leadership to accede to that. What I am afraid of is the comment I read in USA Today, where Senator Daschle said: We are not interested in getting anything done. We…

I tell them and anyone who is concerned that the wait has been worthwhile. This bill is the product of a bipartisan pair of Senators who I think tonight have shown what can happen if we work together. We respect one another. We work for…

I continue to share his concern about blatant Federal Advisory Committee Act violations by this administration in the development of their Roadless Initiative. In any case, I don't believe "one-size-fits-all" proposals like the President's…

I believe if we set in motion the wheels to leave Kosovo, we will set in motion the mechanism to decouple the United States and NATO with Europe. I think we need to be very thoughtful about that. I wish Mr. Putin and the new Russian…