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…

He is chasing the wrong--in this case, the dog is chasing the wrong person. What you end up chasing is chasing very skilled technical people and very highly competent managers of people out of the business who want to be more and more…

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…

I have sympathy for what the Senator from Iowa is saying. The fact of the matter is the amendment doesn't accomplish what he wants to accomplish. We will be back here next year, if the Senator's amendment passes, with the same because all…

Let me just say first in response to the Senator from Iowa's comments about the compensation levels of certain executives, No. 1, the Grassley previous amendment only applied to cost-type contracts; it did not apply to fixed-price…

I rise to offer an amendment for myself and Senator Lieberman that would extend the authority of the Department of Defense to consider alternative approaches to the fulfillment of the education and training requirements in the Defense…

after listening to some of the debate on amendments that are being offered and having the opportunity to come to the floor and defend what we did last year on the welfare reform bill, you would think by all of the amendments that are being…

the budget reconciliation bill before us presents a historic opportunity to balance the budget, provide long overdue tax relief for families and ensure that important programs such as Medicare will be here for the next generation of…

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 want to bring up a point, discuss a point that I believe is very important for two reasons: No. 1, I think it is important that Members understand the issues of constitutionality that have been raised by some about this legislation and…

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 50 letters here from fellows of that organization who are outraged at the organization for the position they have taken. We have a group of over 500 obstetricians and gynecologists who have signed on saying they are supporting the…

this is an amendment that I took the floor yesterday to talk about. It is an amendment that I worked out, along with Senator Frist and Representative Canady in the House, and with the American Medical Association to tighten up some of the…

I just suggest the American Medical Association and the other hundreds of doctors understand the point that seems to elude the Members of this Chamber. By outlawing this procedure they are, in fact, protecting the health of the mother…

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…

Mr. President, there are so many things I would like to say, but let me just start with one at a time, and that is the pictures the Senator from California put up here of women who have been in situations where they were faced with a fetal…

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?

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…

I want to clarify a point. Dr. Haskell, who developed this procedure, testified that the drawings were accurate, and I am quoting him, ``from a technical point of view.'' So these drawings are not cartoons. They are accurate drawings of a…

I want to repeat what was stated by George Will in a column talking about the Daschle amendment. He said, ``The Daschle amendment is a law that is impossible to violate.'' All these things sound really wonderful. We have these real tough…

When you look at the language of the Daschle amendment, you find that it creates a subjective standard. The underlying bill has an objective standard. The amendment says ``would threaten the mother's life,'' or ``risk grievous injury to…

we have heard a lot of talk over the past several days about the issue of partial-birth abortion, about late-term abortion, about the need to have an option available should a pregnancy go awry, and in describing when a pregnancy goes awry…

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…

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…

If I can, I find myself almost incredulous, to believe that you are--in arguing, as I know you have in the past, and other Members have, that we have no right here in the U.S. Senate to dictate what other parents should be able to do with…