I first welcome my distinguished colleague, Senator Ted Kaufman, who has graciously come up from his home in Delaware this morning to join us on this panel.
There is no doubt that--talk about a crisis. The country is in a crisis with the deficit that we have and the national debt in excess of $12...
I think that the fact that we are using our prisons as mental hospitals is a terrible disservice to our prisoners.
I am the cosponsor of the Crime Commission.
That is a big, big issue, and that is one which is being addressed on a bipartisan basis.
We have been derelict, flatly derelict, in not acting up until now.
There is no doubt that NAFTA has benefited Mexico. Has NAFTA benefited the United States?
The issue as to what has happened in Arizona has caused a great deal of concern in many quarters.
But the question looms, and there is still a lot of undercurrent of dissatisfaction with NAFTA from the start.
My State has a considerable Latino population, and I hear a lot of concern and a lot of anger.
The issue of mine safety is a gigantic one. We tend to downplay it until there is a tragedy, and then we're all up in arms about it.