Kay Bailey Hutchison

Senator Sessions and I are offering this amendment for one simple reason: We want to improve the quality of education for the District of Columbia. Our amendment will preserve an estimated $44 million for special education funding in the…

I very much appreciate the majority leader coming to the floor to give this assurance because as we are dividing the money in the last appropriations bills--I know the majority leader has some priorities--I want to make sure this is also a…

my colleague, Senator Bingaman, and I would like to clarify with our colleague, the distinguished chairman of the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, his intent with respect to fiscal year 2002 funding of the Title V…

I have seen first hand how much of an impact HSI grants can have to a small, struggling junior or community college. It can very often make the difference between being able to offer a degree or degree program for the institution's…

Mr. President, I seek recognition to ask the majority leader to commit to working with me on an issue that is very important to many States, and it is important to the high-growth States that also have very tough problems in meeting their…

No one in America can have read a newspaper or seen a television report about the plight of women in Afghanistan, and children, without being horrified. All 13 women of the Senate, led by myself and Senator Mikulski, are introducing a bill…

I will take a few moments, because I deferred to the Senator from Maryland, to talk about some of the statistics in Afghanistan that have caused us to highlight this issue. We have seen repression of women in other countries, but we have…

this is something we must do. We have been working with Mexico on the drug issue for a long time, and we want to put forward a comprehensive program that will be a sharing of responsibility. We will do that, but at this time we do not want…

I thank all Senators who supported this very important legislation. Senator Feinstein and I are very appreciative of the support of Congress. This bill is now on its way to the President. It will provide support to our men and women in the…

I am very pleased to say the Senate is open for business, and we are preparing to take up very important legislation as it relates to the U.S. war on terrorism. Before we talk about that, I want to say that what we are doing is important…

I fully endorse the comments made by our subcommittee chairman, Senator Feinstein. I am pleased to recommend the military construction conference report for fiscal year 2002 to the Senate. We have worked very hard, Senator Feinstein and…

I think it is the intention of the majority leader, and the minority leader as well, to have an aviation security bill passed today. I think we can do it because we only have a few amendments, and there are qualified legitimate differences…

the Senate has done a terrific job of doing something on the 1-month anniversary of this tragedy for America that will begin to rehabilitate the economy of our country, and that is with aviation security we can begin to assure the American…

I am getting as frustrated as the senior Senator from Arizona. We have been working on aviation security since September 12, 2001. I introduced the bill that would increase the number of sky marshals that very week. I could see the…

The bottom line is, we want to go to the bill. The American people expect us to pass a bill to securitize the airplanes and the airports in this country. What is holding us up is people who want to offer extraneous amendments. Some of them…

we are trying to move to the bill that will upgrade aviation security in our country. I hope we can work out an agreement that will allow us to start debating the aviation security bill. What we are all trying to do is get a bill that is…

I could not fail to begin without saying none of us anticipated that in September of 2001 our country would be in a war on terrorism, a war that we did not expect but which we are committed to win. We are reminded once again, as we have…

the Air Transportation System Stabilization Act is the effort of the U.S. Congress, working with the President, to shore up the aviation industry in our country. Already we have seen announced almost 100,000 layoffs in the aviation…

I want to speak briefly on an amendment I offered to the armed services bill. It relates to survivor benefits for people in the military who are killed in the line of duty. I had offered this amendment with Senator Inouye actually before…

on September 11, 2001, our lives were changed irrevocably. It is a day none of us will forget, a day where each of us will remember exactly where we were when we heard our nation had been attacked and our freedom had been assaulted. We…

On September 11, we were reminded of how real that sacrifice is, and how critical those contributions are... This is why I introduced legislation in June [S. 1037] to ensure that all military personnel who die in the line of duly, like…

there is a time to talk and there is a time to act. The Senate today has unanimously acted with force, with resolve, and with unanimity. We spoke for the people of our country about the heinous situation in which we find ourselves, and…

I cannot think of a more appropriate way to end a speech than the ending that was just given by the Senator from Connecticut--talking about my daughter, talking about his future daughter or son, talking about our former colleague Bob…

I rise today to honor General Michael E. Ryan, the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. General Ryan is a great American and, more important, and I'm sure no surprise to my colleagues, he is a fellow Texan. General Ryan has long…

I support a space station that is fully functioning, and in order to achieve that goal, NASA must work within the budget that Congress has given it. At the same time, I understand the difficulty in estimating the costs of such an amazing…