for some time now a bipartisan group of Senators expressed concern about the letting of billions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction contracts without competitive bidding. We have worked very closely with the chair of the Armed Services…

the reason that article is so important is because it indicates Kellogg Brown & Root essentially wrote the specs for the U.S. Government with respect to an oil field restoration effort. What that article shows is that the process basically…

I ask, is there any reason why we couldn't begin such a bipartisan effort immediately? That is something I would like to do. I cited a specific example with Senator Hatch where we were able to make a real difference by working in a…

I had a couple of questions, having listened to the statement. First, my sense is that many physicians in our country--I am seeing this across Oregon and rural Oregon--are having a real problem out there paying their malpractice premiums…

Today, I introduce, for myself and Mrs. Feinstein, the Community and Forest Protection Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (a) Findings.--Congress finds that…

Last week I made public a report from the General Accounting Office involving Taxil, which is the biggest selling cancer drug in history. This drug was developed largely by the taxpayers, with everything for support from the Pacific yew…

On the basis of the pledge of the Senator from New Hampshire to try to work this out with me in the next day or so in an agreeable fashion, I do not intend to object. I want to see the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire and the…

I just want to commend the distinguished Senator from Utah on all his extraordinary work in the health care field. If you look at what the Senator from Utah has achieved in the S-CHIP area, his work that led to the Hatch-Waxman…

a Congress that can find hundreds of billions of dollars in money for tax cuts and the money to rebuild a foreign country must find a way to make Medicare work better for the Nation's vulnerable senior citizens. That is what the next two…

The reason three Democrats and three Republicans and one Independent are sponsoring this amendment is that I think many of us in the Senate are neither pronuclear nor antinuclear but we are definitely protaxpayer. That is why we are on the…

As we move to the vote, basically all the arguments made against the Wyden-Sununu-Snowe-Ensign-Bingaman amendment, all of the arguments made against us were made for the WPPSS facilities which resulted in the biggest municipal bond failure…

I was curious whether the distinguished senior Senator from Idaho was aware that the Congressional Budget Office "considers the risk of default on such a loan guarantee to be very high, well over 50 percent." ... coupled with the…

I wanted to point out to the chairman that if wind farms produce power, they get a tax credit for the energy they produce. But wind farms do not get any subsidy to build a facility. What is unique about the $16 billion exposure for…

I urge Senators, in particular, as they make up their minds on this issue to look at two important reports. The Congressional Budget Office report and the report done by the Congressional Research Service are particularly illuminating in…

summer is upon us. For many college athletes, that means leaving campus and heading back to a home in a different state. Some may take the opportunity to do some traveling, or even to attend sports camps in various parts of the country…

with the adoption of my amendment as part of the Defense authorization bill, the Senate is shining much needed sunshine on the process of awarding contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. This amendment will ensure that Congress and the…

for seven years Senator Grassley and I have teamed up in a bipartisan way to champion the cause of the sunshine hold in the United States Senate. The sunshine hold is the less popular step sister of the more commonly used ``secret'' hold…

Nor should management councils get in the habit of choosing to ignore Congressional instruction.

If done fairly, the assigning of quotas within a fishery can lead to both a safer fishing season and a more sustainable fishery.

I share the concerns of Oregon fishers about the assigning of processor quota shares particularly if they are done in a manner that will benefit a few processors at the expense of many fishers and other processors.

I am wondering why the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has devised a plan that they do not have the statutory authority to implement without the approval of Congress.

I am not sure Congress wants or should get into the habit of debating individual management plans and making what should be regional decisions at the national level.

I thank Senator Murray, the lead sponsor for this legislation. Oregon and Washington are really ground zero as far as the economic hurt in this country, and I thank her for all of her leadership and support. I will take only a few minutes…

this article identifies the issue with respect to travelers. I spoke about those who may pose a terrorist threat. It is a worthy goal. But I also said that this issue raises serious privacy concerns which the government needs to address in…

Earlier this year I spoke on the floor about what I think has been the most important privacy issue of our time. That is the proposal for what is known as the Total Information Awareness Program. This would constitute the biggest…