Rick Santorum

We have coarsened the comity of this place to the point where someone sitting in the gallery, who is literally months away from the age that has been set by the Senate rules, who has a particular interest in this piece of legislation would…

I do not think we are off to a very good start on this debate. I was hopeful that the Senator from California would continue to try to assure the comity that is usually accorded Members when it comes to these kinds of situations. I know…

The question I have asked other Members who have argued your position--I have to ask it again--is that if this procedure were being done on a 24-week-old baby, which is often done, the procedure were done correctly, the baby was not taken…

The Senator from Wisconsin says that this decision should be left up to the mother and doctor, as if there is absolutely no limit that can be placed on what decision they make with respect to that. My question is this: If that baby were…

If the baby was delivered and the head slipped out, would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?

If that baby at 24 weeks was delivered accidentally, just like that, but instead of the head being held in by the physician, the head was accidentally delivered by mistake, would the doctor and the mother have a right to kill that baby?

There is testimony that I entered in the Record yesterday...that is a still a more dangerous procedure.

The health of the mother exception has been interpreted by courts unanimously as being anything--financial health is the health of mother; social interaction, health of the mother; her age, health of the mother; maturity; emotional health…

I will talk about the medical necessity for this procedure, and I will cite a group of physicians and other people, other physicians, who have written extensively on the fact that this procedure is never medically indicated. In fact, it is…

If a partial-birth abortion was being performed on this baby, and for some reason the head slipped out and the baby was delivered, which, in my understanding, is not unprecedented, would the doctor, in consultation with the mother, be able…

I also want to add to that laundry list of support that the House passed this bill with a vetoproof majority. This has overwhelming support in the House of Representatives. As the Senator mentioned, the President would like this bill. I am…

I want to say this bill was a long time coming. We have been hassling through a variety of different amendments. I want to thank Senator Leahy, Senator Kennedy, and others for their cooperation in finally getting this bill to pass. This is…

It is also my understanding under this section that a supermarket would not be held liable for any civil or criminal penalties in the event that the store were to be depleted of its supply of brochures or whatever information is provided…

Let these little guys get a little piece of the pie here. If you are really for the small- and medium-size peanut farmer in Alabama or Georgia, then what you want to do is you want these folks to divest from these big quotas and start…

I will be happy to send each Governor a copy of this debate so they will be fully informed as to what they are getting into.

To answer your question, as the Senator from North Dakota knows, the State of Florida during the time of Hurricane Andrew was eligible for disaster assistance, and that covers a variety of things. Having just gone through that in…

I do not understand why the opt out is such a bad idea. The fact is that what you want to accomplish is to put them back into the main program.

I thank the Chair. First, let me say, Mr. President, that we have had votes on block grants here in the Senate in the past. We had one on the bill last year. In fact, when it came out of the Agriculture Committee, there was no block grant…

I said, what you are suggesting is that someone who is no longer on AFDC but is Medicaid eligible because of this grandfathering is not going to have an incentive to take a better job, potentially with benefits, potentially with…

These are people who are not on AFDC anymore. These are people who are working, because if they were on AFDC, they would be included under the new program.

I do not think that would be correct. If the person is no longer eligible for AFDC, what you are suggesting is they should keep working in a low-wage job just for the purposes of keeping Medicaid and not try to get a promotion where you…

All the refugees you talk about have a 5-year exemption from the ineligibility for benefits. Anyone that is in this country is eligible for benefits up to the first 5 years they are in this country.

I suggest a couple things to the Senator from California. No. 1, this is a policy that I think needs to be changed, and, No. 2, the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people on these programs who can and should be working, as a…

For the Senator to suggest the Feinstein amendment does not touch it is not accurate. You say it does not apply to anybody here, so you would remove all the provisions of this act with respect to people in this country.

Yes. The Senator is absolutely right. This is different than I understood the provision to be. The difference is--and the Senator is correct--that aliens, refugees, et cetera, are eligible for 5 years until they become eligible for…