William H. Frist

I have a package of manager amendments that have been cleared on both sides of the aisle. I would now send them to the desk, and I ask unanimous consent that the amendments be considered and agreed to with the motion to reconsider laid…

this June 19th marked the 140th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day our Nation finally ended the immoral and heinous institution of slavery. On June 19th, 1865, three years after President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, a…

I ask unanimous consent the Small Business Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 165, and the Senate now proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection it is so ordered. The clerk…

in a moment we will return to consideration of the pending Energy legislation that we debated last week and this week and will complete later this week. We will resume debate on the amendment of Senator Martinez relating to the inventory…

to clarify the comments that were going back and forth between the Senate Democratic leader and myself, we will finish the bill this week. We pay our respects to the Senator from New Mexico by saying he has been more than willing to be…

I thank my colleague in this endeavor. As mentioned earlier, we began working on the information technology aspects of health care about a year ago and published our first op-ed together about July of last year. In closing, this is not…

Calendar 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, and all nominations on the Secretary's desk. I further ask unanimous consent that all of the mentioned nominations be confirmed en bloc, the…

I would just like to add a real note of appreciation to an individual, Jackson Cox, who has spent much time focusing on this issue of Burmese democracy. The resolution sponsored by Senators McConnell and Feinstein is a resolution…

in the past few weeks a number of allegations have been leveled against the Guantanamo Bay detention center. There have been some legitimate questions about the treatment of detainees, which is fair and responsible. The United States is…

Nashville, TN is home to some of the best music in the world. Last weekend, I had the pleasure of being back home during the 2005 Country Music Association Festival--``Country Music's Biggest Party.'' More than 130,000 country music lovers…

On the Energy bill. Mr. President, we yield the floor and do thank our distinguished colleague from New Jersey for his consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chafee). The Senator from New Jersey.

we will have a very short colloquy here as to what to expect over the next several days. It will take 3 or 4 minutes. Mr. President, Senators have been asking about the schedule for the afternoon, tomorrow, and Monday. First of all, let me…

The problem is enormous and the problem is real. So what are we going to do about it? Senator Clinton and I propose three concrete steps to remedy these problems and establish a fully interoperable information technology system. First, we…

this needs to change and it must change. We must establish an interoperable privacy-protected electronic medical record for every American who wants one. Working together, our Nation can confront these challenges, and we can build an…

as we talk about these systems and standards and words such as interoperability, which, as the Senator from New York said, does mean being able to connect it all together, people who are listening must ask: Well, how in the world do these…

I apologize for the interruption. A number of people have called asking for the schedule for tonight in terms of voting. We will be voting on the Cantwell amendment sometime tomorrow morning, and we will not have rollcall votes tonight. I…

this morning we will resume consideration of the Energy bill. We will be spending all of this week and, in all likelihood, all of next week on the bill. We plan on completing the bill by the end of next week. Yesterday, the chairman…

today we will continue consideration of the Energy bill, as we just discussed. The debate has been very thorough and robust. Today I expect it to be so as we debate a number of very important issues, but I am confident, very optimistic…

this morning we will proceed at 10 a.m. to an up-or-down vote on Tom Griffith's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court. I suspect the Senate will vote to confirm Mr. Griffith, and I thank the Senators who participated in the debate over the…

in 45 minutes or so, we will be turning to an important issue which people have spoken to over the course of the day, an issue we will be spending the evening on. It is an issue that is one of the worst failings of this institution in our…

this morning, President Bush, accompanied by the Presidents of five African States--Botswana, Ghana, Niger, Mozambique, and Namibia--announced the African Growth and Opportunity Act forum that will be held in July of this year in Senegal…

today the Senate will debate Executive Calendar No. 66, the nomination of Thomas Griffith to be a circuit judge for the DC Circuit. The vote on confirmation will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow. I am pleased we will be able to have a vote on this…

briefly in response--really in agreement-- as we heard from the Democrat leader, we have a lot to do. We have an ambitious agenda with a superb piece of legislation that we bring to the Senate early next week, the Energy bill, which…

as you can see, the list is huge. We are going about it systematically, in discussion on a regular basis with the Democratic leader. That is the way we will continue as we address many issues important to the American people…

before we leave I want to give a final thanks to the page class of the spring of 2005. Tomorrow is a special day. They will be receiving their certificates and will be leaving us to return home. We rarely take that opportunity to say thank…