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Arlen Specter was a prominent American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania for 30 years, from 1981 to 2011. Originally a member of the Republican Party, he switched to the Democratic Party in 2009. During his tenure, Specter was known for his moderate positions and played a key role in various significant legislative efforts, including judicial nominations and health care reform. He was involved in high-profile hearings, including those related to the 9/11 attacks and the confirmation of Supreme Court justices.
As the Senator knows, a second requirement for States to qualify for these grants is that--whether by State statute, State or local rule, regulation or practice--they preserve biological evidence in a reasonable way. Do the Senators from…
SEC. COMMENDING THE ARMED FORCES FOR EFFORTS IN OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. (a) Purpose.--Recognizing and commending the members of the United States Armed Forces and their leaders, and the allies of the Untied…
Attorney General John Ashcroft might consider recusing himself from the leak investigation because of his ties to presidential aide Karl Rove.
I expressed this on the Senate floor--of concern to involve the United Nations as much as that could be done.
It is true that we have not funded the Community Access Program. That program has traditionally been funded by the House, and let me assure you that it will be funded when we come out of conference. As the Senator from Washington is aware…
I commend my friend from California for her tireless dedication to ensuring the protection of unaccompanied alien children. Indeed, it was her efforts last year that brought about the transfer of responsibility for these vulnerable…
I am glad to join Senator Harkin in confirming our intent that funding in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill be used in part to continue funding 12 Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. These centers…
I strongly support our Nation's children's hospitals and the pediatric Graduate Medical Education program. Children's hospitals train almost 30 percent of all pediatricians and half of all pediatric specialists. They also provide more than…
I believe that Close Up makes a vital contribution to civic education, and would not want to see the program fail. I say to my friend from Louisiana, that I will be pleased to work with her during conference to see if we can find the…
This amendment provides $80 million for data collection for student achievement. While it would be desirable to have more funds in this appropriations bill, we don't have them, and the offset is a cut in the program out of the Department…
There is no doubt about the seriousness of the West Nile virus. But we have, at the present time, some $76 million at the Centers for Disease Control. This past Saturday, I visited the Centers for Disease Control. I took a look at their…
May I say for the record I thought it was my prerogative to oppose the amendment, but I would like to incorporate by reference everything the Senator from Illinois said as if I had said it. He did a good job.
There is no doubt about the desirability of the program encompassed in the amendment by the Senator from Louisiana. We already have in the account $100 million. I wish we had more money, but that is the maximum we can do with the budget…
The allocations for the Institute of Museum and Library Services is obviously very important. We already have a very substantial allocation, as specified in the principal arguments last night. Here again, much as I would like to increase…
My calculations differ. I took $8 million--and I don't know if that is a correct figure or incorrect figure--and that works, to me, to be $20 million a day. So if you are talking about $200 million, that is considerably more than the…
How can the Senator from New Jersey make the assertions he has when his own authority says there would have to be "substantial and complex modeling" to determine "the size of that student population and the financial effect on federal aid…
The Senator from Nevada has articulated some wisdom this morning in his comments about pride. I think of the statement ``pride goeth before a fall.'' I think we can retain our pride and also get this worked out.
I would direct this question to the Senator from Nevada. He says let the majority leader determine when the vote should be set. I would agree with that. But suppose the majority leader says we ought to take the Harkin amendment vote after…
As a matter of power, in other contexts, in prior avocations, there were stronger terms which were used as to the situation. But I would call it concessions of power. That is a nicer characterization than others might be. But anger flares…
The other 49 Republican Senators are not here. But in absentia. They are flaring, invisible flares all around the Senate Chamber. So we are heading for a tough time, I am afraid.
I supported the use of force and the objective of deposing an authoritarian dictator who had committed brutal acts against humanity, murdering tens of thousands, really hundreds of thousands, of his own people. Saddam Hussein conclusively…
The difficulty which I have as manager, we are now up to our 302(b) allocation. To find another $1 million, we have to take it from somewhere. It is a matter of evaluating whether $1 million means anything significant on top of $13 million…
By way of brief recapitulation, the thrust of the amendment by the Senator from Nevada on Hispanics I think has been covered by the enumeration of programs I outlined earlier during the course of this debate. There are very substantial…
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