Kay Bailey Hutchison

I think it is appropriate and indeed necessary for us to ask difficult questions.

These same soldiers are proudly working to create an environment where people no longer fear the government...

we are not adding money to the bill. We are taking money in the bill that is unallocated--promised but not yet granted to specific projects in specific States--and redistributing that on a fairer basis than that of political rewards in…

I hope very much our colleagues will also listen to the arguments against the second-degree amendment and for this amendment. I know the committee tried very hard to balance what they considered to be every State's wishes and needs, but…

First, Mr. Kay, who is totally credible on the issue of weapons of mass destruction, made the following statements in his Armed Services Committee testimony. Senator McCain asked the question: [Y]ou agree with the fundamental principle…

I do understand the difficulty of dealing with these formulas, and I am sure the chairman of the committee and the ranking member tried in every way to please as many people as they possibly could. It just seems wrong to create a new level…

That would certainly be an interesting study to have. I would also point out that part of the purpose of the gasoline tax is to maintain highways for use, and even if it is someone like the Senator or someone using the highway for NAFTA…

I hope in the end I will be able to support the bill. At this point, I could not possibly do that because of the inequity to Texas. Most of the goods that drive our economy ride on our Nation's highways in large part because over the past…

today in honor of the memory and sacrifice of seven astronauts whose lives were tragically cut short one year ago in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia, I bring to the floor a bill to authorize the construction of several…

it would be in everyone's interest, once our Senators are notified, if we could set that time so our time could be roughly equally divided before then. With that, Madam President, I will speak on our time and talk about the importance of…

It is very important to be more cautious rather than less cautious. And though I know it is inconvenient for many passengers, nevertheless, I would rather err on the side of caution to make sure that we don't have an accident that we could…

I am proud to offer the Clean Air and Water Investment and Infrastructure Act. Texas, like many States, faces increasingly difficult challenges in improving air and water quality. The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection…

I have to say I have been in the Senate for 10 years, and I have tried to get an Energy bill through the Senate during all of that time. We have never been able to do that until the Senator from New Mexico became chairman of the committee…

It was really phenomenal. In fact, isn't it true that she got the highest number of votes of any person running for the supreme court that year?

I want to clarify a point because the Senator from New York tried to equate a filibuster with a hold. I was hoping the Senator from Alabama would show the difference between a hold and a filibuster. If we start calling a hold a filibuster…

I heard one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say: There are not enough hours in the universe that would be sufficient for debating Justice Owen's nomination. I thought that was very interesting because, the fact is, if we…

Frankly, we would have a hard time finding a job. Priscilla Owen went through that. She has known the tough times. She has known herself to be superior. That is why I appreciate the Senator from North Carolina talking about my friend…

Justice Priscilla Owen has had a vote in the Senate. She has had four or five votes in the Senate. If we were adhering to the Constitution of the United States, she would be sitting on the Fifth Circuit today. There are three vacancies on…

If she has the majority vote on the floor of the Senate, and the Constitution says that advise and consent is not a supermajority, that is what it implies because it didn't ask for a supermajority, then why isn't she sitting on the Fifth…

isn't it true that she was endorsed by every newspaper in Texas when she ran for reelection to the Supreme Court of Texas, every single one?

I wanted to tell the rest of the story on Judge Carolyn Kuhl because I think a misimpression was left by the Senator from California regarding the case of the woman who was having a breast exam, and when she left the office, she asked who…

I rise in opposition to implementing the mandatory country-of-origin labeling, also known as COOL. This Legisition would devastate the U.S. meat industry, cost thousands of American jobs and raise food prices for the customers the law…

The sense of the Senate says we support helping Iraq as it builds a new democracy and believe we need to finish what we have started there and in Afghanistan. It is critical that this reconstruction effort have a multilateral approach…

One of the biggest successes in Iraq in the past month has been the first day of school for millions of Iraqi children. America's service men and women worked with local partners to refurbish the schools that were destroyed under Saddam…

as a U.S. Magistrate, Judge Crone has presided over a number of civil and criminal cases, ranging from employment discrimination to pretrial arraignments and detention hearings in felony cases. In her more than 10 years on the Federal…