Rick Santorum

If I may, I would like to briefly inquire with my colleague how his amendment will affect areas of my state. It is my understanding that this amendment will not in any way interfere with or delay efforts currently underway by EPA and…

I rise to support what seems to be a growing notion on the floor that we not vote on this nominee today, that we take an opportunity for the sake of fairness to give Judge Massiah-Jackson the opportunity to respond to the new information…

I voted against NAFTA. So I think I have some legitimacy here. I am not debating that some of the agreements we have entered into in this country--you can't say only the ones entered into under fast track. We have entered into a lot of…

I am accepting the Senator's arguments as true--that in fact what you are signifying happened is true. By staying there and not changing things does the Senator think things would get better? To me that is the sin of when you believe that…

So in the end everyone agreed that the chairman's original statement was correct, and that really the sole voice of dissent was a Justice Department letter which was intended really just to muddy the waters and cast doubt.

What would be the possible reason why someone at a high level of the Justice Department would sign off on a letter which they know would be untrue to basically call into question Chairman Thompson's assertion that the Chinese had some plot…

Who knew otherwise, knew that the FBI--part of the Justice Department--had cleared this statement, had signed off on that statement.

When in fact the chairman has said--and I think it has come out since then, that the FBI and CIA in fact cleared that statement and in fact had made some changes, I think one change in one word, is my understanding, one change in one word…

The Justice Department said it was OK to give immunity. The only thing we are aware of, that has been talked about, intervening between the Justice Department saying yes to 17 of the 18 monks to be able to come up here and testify and then…

Once they understood that the Vice President could be implicated in this testimony, he called the Justice Department, not the Justice Department called him; is that your understanding?

Did the Justice Department give any other rationale for changing its mind, other than the fact that what we know is the Vice President was implicated in this, directly now implicated, with knowledge of this fundraising scheme at this…

And the Justice Department, as a result, I assume, of this conversation changed its mind as far as allowing these witnesses to testify under a grant of immunity.

After the front-page story that morning, the story that implicated the Vice President with respect to knowledge of the fundraising scheme, Senator Daschle came forward and said, ``You're not going to get any support for allowing these…

I agree with your understanding. You accurately describe my view of the intent of section 824.

What this amendment does is lower that cap to $200,000, and in so doing it applies to not just executives but scientists--people who are in demand, who are going to be taken away from high-technology firms and national defense and are…

What would happen is a couple of things. According to the Grassley amendment, it is my understanding they would be roped in no matter whether they did any work or not. They would be covered under this because their company is. It doesn't…

You then accept the fact that by limiting the compensation to everybody, particularly those firms that do 90 or even more percentage of their work with the Federal Government, you in effect put a salary cap on everybody at that firm, even…

Is the Senator aware there are many businesses that contract with defense and other Government agencies that do primarily, almost exclusively, Government work? Are you aware that there are many companies involved that do that?

Again I ask the question, does it apply to people who are scientists, who, as the Information Technology Association of America said, people with highly technical skills? Do they apply to this cap?

I go around and I have talked to hundreds of high school students, thousands of them. I have been to over 100 high schools since I have been in office. I ask them, how many believe Medicare and Social Security will be here when you retire…

I have put forward letter after letter after letter from obstetricians, from perinatologists, experts in maternal fetal medicine who have said that this procedure is never medically indicated, that in fact this procedure is more dangerous…

I have shown this picture. This is a real picture, a real person, and there are other real persons who have been through this threat of partial-birth abortion and survived it and made the choice of life. This is not a hypothetical…

That is, during the process of partial-birth abortions, if the baby that is being brought out in this fashion would for some reason have its head slip out because all that is left inside of the mother is a very small head, if that head…

So you are saying the difference between being able to kill a child and not kill a child is the distance of the child's head? That is the difference?

As I spoke last night, we are now moving to consideration of the partial-birth abortion ban that has passed the House of Representatives with a constitutional majority, more than two-thirds I should say, more than two-thirds majority in…