Kay Bailey Hutchison

I am so pleased that finally we are going to address an energy policy for our country. It has been a long time coming. I thought, even since before I came to the Senate, we were not looking forward enough to address the future energy needs…

Today, as I have done every year I have been in the Senate, I want to especially commemorate the anniversary of Texas independence. Many know--many do not know--the history of Texas, but I am very proud of the heritage we have. Texas is…

I am concerned after reading the recent Washington Post article that women will not be encouraged to get a mammogram.

I hope, as we all do, that we will soon arrive at answers to the many questions before us on this matter.

It is our responsibility to further ensure that the public is encouraged to take the steps necessary to detect cancer at an early stage.

That is right, Madam Chairman, and you and I, of course, have worked on many cancer issues and trying to fund cancer research.

Well, thank you, and I do hope that you will use your position to help us find the cure, because that is what has been missing for all these years that we have worked to try to eradicate breast cancer as a leading cause of deaths among…

This legislation addresses the issue of mammography. It mandates that everyone has a right to receive a mammogram who is 40 years of age or older or is at high risk of developing breast cancer.

in 1994, the Government representative came forward and said women should not have mammograms until they are 50.

so many of us wanted a stimulus package. The President asked for a stimulus package. We see the stock market continuing to go up and down, up and down. It certainly has not stabilized yet. We wanted to try to stimulate investment to try to…

I am very pleased that I am the first person to speak on behalf of Judge Phil Martinez to be a United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. Of all the courts in the country that are desperate for judges, those on the…

I thank Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye for the hard work they did on this bill. Since this bill was left to be the last appropriations bill passed this year, it had many difficulties. During this time, our Armed Forces were prosecuting…

I rise to discuss what an important day today is in the history of our country and also to mention a personal, special time for a Member of our Senate on Pearl Harbor Day. And that is Senator Dan Inouye. Dan Inouye was 17 years old, living…

I understand that the FTA is currently withholding approximately $165M of funding for the Tren Urbano Project, and has required a more accurate cost estimate and schedule for the Project than has been previously furnished.

I concur with the Senator and, if such disputes have not been resolved by March 1, 2002, would further request that the Inspector General promptly report back to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on FTA's assessment of (i)…

I find this troubling given the extent of oversight we have come to expect of major transit projects like this one.

I rise today to honor members of ``the greatest generation''--those men and women who were at Pearl Harbor on the infamous day of December 7, 1941. Those who followed coined this nickname we all widely recognize, for the men and women who…

I did want to take this opportunity, though, during morning business to mention a bill that passed last night. It is a bill that was cosponsored by every woman in the Senate. There are 13 women in the Senate. All of us cosponsored this…

On September 11, the terrorists found loopholes in our homeland security. Four airplanes were used as weapons of mass destruction, something we had never seen in our country. Now, 2 months later, we are closing these loopholes in our…

I thank Chairman Hollings and Senator Gregg for their leadership and efforts on the Commerce, Justice, State appropriations bill for fiscal year 2002. This bill contains funding for many of the important law enforcement activities and…

I rise to talk about the VA/HUD bill which has a number of good parts to it. I know the managers have worked very hard to divide up the dollars. It is always hard when there are not as many dollars as projects. I specifically want to talk…

I would like to read briefly from that letter: It is our determination that the exclusion of [the cap] could result in an additional cost of at least $44 million to the District of Columbia Public Schools in FY 2002. . . . It is our…

Mr. President, I will discuss some of the issues raised by the Senator from Illinois. First, he says the number and quality of attorneys who take special education cases has declined since the imposition of the cap. This is not supported…

The issue is that more students are actually being served and there is no charge by anyone that there is a denial of due process. In fact, before the caps went into place there were 8,120 special need students in the DC schools. Now there…

Mr. President, my amendment attempts to be a compromise between those who wish to take the caps off the attorney's fees for suing the District of Columbia School District and what I think is a quite reasonable approach, which is to keep…