the DeWine amendment accomplished everything that is absolutely necessary to fight global AIDS at this time. It is $2 billion. The authorization stipulated fully funding the authorization of $2 billion and $400 million to match the $800…

I also congratulate the Senator from Ohio as well as the majority leader for the tremendous work they have done on this issue in crafting a compromise that will keep within the budget. This DeWine amendment did keep within the budget and…

in this sadly historic era of unprecedented filibusters of judicial nominees, the truth is an unwelcome visitor to those in the minority who seek to deprive President Bush of his constitutional duty to nominate Article III judges. The…

I have taken the floor to talk about obstructionism of the other side of the aisle with respect to judges. That has been a main point of contention on my part, that it is something that is doing damage to our judiciary and to the Senate…

I am appalled by the filth he has to go through every day, whether it is e-mails or pop-ups, in trying to get his work done. We have to do something about this. I am as much for free speech and free advertising as anybody else, but it…

As a father of six little children who spend some time--not a lot of time--but some time on the Internet, just viewing the amount of spam, the pornographic spam that comes into my 10-year-old's site, in some cases, is just absolutely…

I know I just have a few seconds, but I do want to recognize the tremendous effort and work the majority leader has made over the years on this issue. His presentation, when he first came to the Senate, as the only physician in the Senate…

we are here today on the verge of something the United States has done on two previous occasions; that is, pass a conference report to ban a partial-birth abortion procedure to be done in the United States of America. The only difference…

To compare the killing of a fetus to the removal of an intestine--a fetus like in this picture, where you can see that little hand, that is a 21-week-old. That is the age at which these children are killed by partial-birth abortion. To…

what the Senator from Nevada has suggested is instead of taking the normal course, which is the House has passed a bill, the Senate has passed a bill, and for us to go to conference to negotiate the differences, the Senator from Nevada is…

He has won numerous medals and commendations. His first flight in space was on August 30, 1983. He became the first African American to fly in space. Subsequent to that, he went on three missions in space in the shuttle and logged over 688…

It is one thing to call into question his action. It is one thing to call into question his plan. But to call into question his motives is one of the things that I think disturbs many people on this side of the aisle, and, frankly, many…

I do not believe the Senator from New Hampshire used the word ``privatization.'' My colleagues will not hear me use the term ``privatization.'' Privatization intimates to the American public that we are going to abandon the current Social…

This question always hearkens me back to a commercial which dates me a little bit. It was Fram Oil Filters. The question was: Pay me now or pay me later? The issue is, and the issue that, again, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

I know both Senators know about the Fleming v. Nestor case in 1960--a U.S. Supreme Court case that said that Social Security benefits are not guaranteed. You do not have a private property right to Social Security benefits. It is a…

The Senator from Illinois mentioned the British system. The Senator from Illinois knows that the current Prime Minister of Britain, who is not a Conservative-Republican but a Labor-Democrat, if you will, has suggested expanding the…

To reiterate, this idea that the vast majority of the American public agrees with Roe v. Wade is not correct. Roe v. Wade allows abortion under any circumstances at any time during pregnancy. That is what Roe v. Wade does. Now, what does…

I can't imagine that--first of all, this number was derived from death certificates. If a person is dead, they are not going to report an abortion. There is no concern about a woman reporting her own death because she fears being…

In the year prior to Roe v. Wade, 1972, the total maternal deaths in the United States--total maternal deaths from all causes--was 612. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the total abortion-related deaths were 83. So I ask the…

I want to clarify and put a question to the Senator. Using my numbers--these are not my numbers; these are the numbers from Department of Health, Education and Welfare back in 1975. The Senator says people didn't want to report that. I…

I appreciate the basic disagreement. I think we are allowed to disagree on our opinions. We are not allowed to argue and disagree with the facts. The facts are what they are. This is from the Centers for Disease Control. These are numbers…

to reiterate, we make moral decisions on this floor every day. We decide what things are legal, what things are illegal. We do so based on a variety of things, but morality is certainly one component of that. The idea that we have no right…

I was struck when we took this moment of silence to remember the second plane slamming into the World Trade Center. Thinking back to that day and recalling the events when the first plane crashed, there was confusion and no one knew what…

Madam President, a couple months ago we had a very good debate, late at night on the floor of the Senate, on the issue of AIDS in Africa. We made a commitment in that authorization bill to follow through with the President's plan, his…

earlier today, I offered an amendment to increase the amount of money in the Aid for Africa Program to the number that met the authorization level this Senate passed just a couple months ago. It was an additional $350 million which would…