In the coming weeks the Senate will consider legislation to prohibit human cloning. In advance of that important debate, which will center upon this intersection of values, of ethics as it crosses with science, many have begun studying in…

I came to Washington to the U.S. Senate in my heart to serve my home state of Tennessee and this great nation, but after arriving my steps have also taken me far from the floor of the United States Senate--on medical mission trips to…

I rise once again today to speak on the critical issue of genetic discrimination and to proudly join my colleagues, Senators Snowe, Jeffords, Collins, Enzi, DeWine, Hagel, and Gregg in introducing the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination…

on this Valentine's Day, National Donor Day, I rise to speak on the critical issue of organ donation. It is with great pleasure that I join with my colleagues Senators Dodd, Hutchinson, Jeffords, and Enzi to introduce the Organ Donation…

I rise to speak about a bill being introduced today by Senator Collins, a bill that would expand loan forgiveness for math, science and special education teachers. I am proud to be a cosponsor of this legislation. At this time, I would…

I am thankful to be able to come to the floor today, along with many of my colleagues, to announce the Senate passage of the Frist-Kennedy Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2001. Over the past several weeks, we have been working in a…

I concur with Senator Kennedy's remarks regarding this standard as it applies to the food safety provisions in this bill. As 21 C.F.R. 7.41 regarding health hazard evaluation makes clear, the FDA evaluation will take into account a list of…

I rise in support of the 6 month moratorium on human cloning which the Senate is now debating. In recent years, science has progressed rapidly. In 1997, Ian Wilmut and a team of researchers successfully created an adult cloned sheep…

I rise to speak regarding a topic that has emerged dramatically over the past 7 weeks, a topic that everybody in the United States of America has thought about, a topic that many of us in the Senate have been thinking about over the last 3…

I believe all human cloning for scientific reasons, for ethical reasons, and for reasons surrounding the health and safety of women should be banned. This whole subject of human cloning was the subject of a lot of discussion earlier this…

for almost 20 years, the Government of Sudan has prosecuted a war of incredible barbarity against its own people, leading to the deaths of over 2 million of its citizens through mass starvation, indiscriminate bombing raids, slave raids…

I rise today to support S. 838, the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act. In the January 2001 report to Congress, the FDA stated that the law that we are reauthorizing today, "has done more to generate clinical studies and useful…

I am proud to join Senators Lieberman, Mikulski, Bond and Domenici in introducing the Tech Talent bill. This legislation will build on and compliment legislation I introduced earlier this year, the Math and Science Partnership Act. Today…

I rise to discuss an issue based on my observations over the past week, an issue clearly on the minds of many people, and that is the potential threat of germ warfare and bioterrorism. Over the weekend, there was a lot of discussion…

I rise to discuss critically important legislation that I am introducing today along with Senator Clinton to address the internatinal crises of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The threats of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are not…

I rise to speak to a topic that is very much on the minds of the American people as well as policymakers in Washington, DC; that is, the issue of embryonic stem cell research. The issue of embryonic stem cell research is one that has…

I have introduced an amendment which is a comprehensive approach to the Patients' Bill of Rights. Essentially this bill is the Frist-Breaux-Jeffords bill which was introduced on May 15 of this year, modified with several of the…

I guess this decision of certainty--I usually like choice coming through, and it appeals to me. I am a 50-person convenience store operator and have three or four convenience stores in the area, and I have people barely scraping by…

first of all, let me put perspective on this because we have had the amendment introduced, and there are basically three points I want to make. No. 1, I applaud the Senator from Ohio and the Senator from Maine because they have, for the…

This is an important point, and therefore I think the colloquy is important so we can address it. We have just seen the language for the first time a few minutes ago. The way I understand it, we have about 170 million people out there we…

I believe we should go back and look at the way the bill is written. This is a limited carve-out. This is not a huge carve-out. Basically, what this carve-out says is, because of the unique situation of the self-insured, self-administered…

Frankly, I do not think this is a huge deal. The reality is that the vast majority of businesses will go under designated decisionmaker, and, in fact, we provide in the bill that it is automatic. That will just happen unless they make a…

It is clear that this whole issue of suing employers is critically important. In debates, again and again we hear that the Kennedy bill does not allow employers to be sued. Yet if you read their bill, there are all these pages and pages of…

When you are talking about care and access to speciality care for a particular problem, you can go through our appeals system very specifically. We have not talked much about access to specialists. It is critically important. In the…

We have to make it clear because again and again during this debate the statement is being made that what the Kennedy bill does in terms of employers is exactly what the Texas law does. But with what the Senator from Texas has just gone…