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Kay Bailey Hutchison is a former U.S. Senator from Texas, serving from 1993 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first woman to represent Texas in the Senate. During her tenure, Hutchison was known for her work on issues such as space exploration, military funding, and education. She played a significant role in advocating for NASA and was a strong supporter of human spaceflight initiatives. Hutchison also served as the chair of the Senate Republican Conference and was involved in various bipartisan efforts throughout her career.
I am pleased, of course, the Senate will be voting on Judge Ed Prado to move to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been a judge on the district bench for a number of years--actually, since 1984--and he has an outstanding record. He…
today Senator Feinstein and I are introducing the ``Overseas Military Facility Structure Review Act'' to establish a congressional panel to conduct a detailed study of U.S. military facilities overseas. This bill creates a bipartisan…
I begin today giving a tribute to a group of Navy reservists from Texas who are making history in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit is the Strike Fighter Squadron that hails from the Joint Reserve base at Fort Worth. As we speak, the…
I want to speak on the AMBER alert portion of this legislation because we have been working on it for several months. We passed AMBER alert legislation last year. Senator Feinstein and I cosponsored the legislation. Senator Hatch and…
I want to open today by noting what we saw live from Iraq yesterday starting in the midmorning. It was truly uplifting to see what we hoped would be the end: The fall of Saddam Hussein, the cheering in the streets by the Iraqi people, the…
Today, I want to salute the members of the 507th Maintenance Company. This is the company out of Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX, who really were the first to be captured, the first prisoners of war shown on Iraqi television. Some of them have…
I want to say first how much I appreciate Senator Hatch, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who has done an incredible job under very trying circumstances on the nomination of Priscilla Owen. Senator Hatch saw early on what an…
I certainly support the sense of the Senate. We all want fair treatment. If the aviation industry had stayed viable and we had a good economy, I believe every employee would have maintained their employment status and there would have been…
I rise today to talk about joy and also apprehension. In Palestine, WV, they are celebrating the rescue yesterday of PFC Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital. I am sure most people who watch C-SPAN have also seen the incredible pictures of…
I appreciate his courtesy because we are reserving the first hour of every day when our troops are in the field to giving tribute to them, talking about some of the events that have happened in the field, talking about some of the acts of…
I want you to have that, because I know that you might not be able to anticipate an added runway, or a taxiway, or an apron, and you need to be able to do something quickly.
I just wanted to make sure that we do not keep doing temporary things if it is going to be long-term.
this resolution we are talking about today is for those brave men and women who are in harms way as we speak, close to midnight their time, far across the oceans. America's thoughts and prayers are with each and every one of them--Active…
when the Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution, they said that judicial nominees would be confirmed by the advice and consent of the Senate. Clearly that has always been a majority vote. They specified in the Constitution when a larger…
I am more encouraged by this year's NASA budget than I have been in years past.
I have never seen a sadder face on any person than I saw on you following the Columbia accident.
I think this is one of the great success stories of our ongoing efforts with space exploration.
I do hope that as things are beginning to come out, as this is beginning to come to closure, that you are going to come back to us with a system of communications from the bottom to the top.
I think it is just absolutely essential that we renew our commitment to the shuttle and to the manned shuttle.
March 2 is Texas Independence Day. Every year I have been in the Senate, I have carried on the tradition, started by Senator John Tower, of reading on or about March 2--Texas Independence Day--William Barret Travis's letter from the Alamo…
If the Constitution says 51 votes, or a simple majority, I am asking if it would be an effort to go around the Constitution to filibuster a Federal judge. Is it even really seemly to filibuster a Federal judge nominee when the Constitution…
I appreciate so much the distinguished deputy leader of the Democrats coming down because there are a lot of different precedents in the Senate for all the years that the Senate has been in session. Last session was quite unusual in that…
I will end by saying I really hope we can put aside the 57 percent, or the 60 percent, even though I think there is certainly the argument for precedent whenever there has been a clear majority at the beginning of a term to have a…
I am pleased to introduce a package of three bills I hope will be the starting point for a long overdue discussion on reducing taxes on investment income, particularly dividends. The first bill would completely eliminate taxes on…
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