Kay Bailey Hutchison

Reform is the key to success in education. We are going to spend more money on education. In fact, President Bush has put forward a budget that provides an 11.4-percent increase in spending in education. That is warranted because we do…

I would like to talk about what the President's education plan does. The Democrats are claiming they have offered more spending on education. In fact, the President has proposed an 11.5-percent increase in overall education spending for…

I respond to the Senator from Virginia and mention that he, as a very senior member of the Senate, asked to go on the Education Committee because of his interest in improving our public schools. I appreciate he made that a priority. His…

I am very optimistic we are going to have a bill. The reforms are pretty well agreed to. Both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are coming together to say: We need a change. Business as usual in our education system is not going to…

I think all of us have the same goal. Every one of us believes that public education is not meeting the standards we envisioned for this country when we established public education as the basis for democracy. The question is, How do we do…

I rise today to talk about education. I appreciate my colleague from Wyoming talking about it. I saw Senator Frist earlier today discussing the President's education plan and certainly the congressional education plan. I think they are…

As we discuss the budget resolution, it is important to make it clear, on the record, that our determination to pass the High Speed Rail Investment Act this year, as soon as possible, is as strong as ever. Virtually all of our key modes of…

The $69 billion will go to the marriage penalty because we will say so. I hope my colleagues will support elimination of the marriage penalty.

It would add $69 billion to assure that there is a marriage penalty elimination for this country. We have said we want to eliminate it. Now is the time to do it. We want to add the amount we believe it will cost to fully eliminate the…

I am very proud of the budget resolution that has been produced. I commend Senator Domenici for his leadership in making sure we address all the needs of our country in the most responsible way. I want to address the basics of this…

I have had some White House briefings on what would be in the President's budget. It is so refreshing to see a President, who made promises, and tonight is going to unveil his plans to keep the promises he made to the American people. I…

Another high priority for our Congress is our national security, making sure the men and women in the military have the tools they need to do their job, because their job is protecting our freedom. They are laying their lives on the line…

later today I plan to introduce legislation that will be a very important part of our tax bill and also part of the effort to encourage people to give more to charitable institutions. This bill was passed by Congress last session, and it…

for 4 years now, I have introduced a bill to eliminate the marriage penalty tax. I have said all of these years that I do not think Americans should have to choose between love and money. They should be able to get married and not be…

I have another bill to introduce. This is cosponsored by Senators Frist and Crapo. It is the Careers to Classrooms Act of 2001. Once again, this is a bill that has already been passed by Congress, but it has never made it into law. I am…

I rise to recognize the Houston arrival of a Ronald McDonald Care Mobile--a state-of-the-art pediatric mobile healthcare unit. It is one of the first in an innovative initiative of the Ronald McDonald House Charities, known and respected…

I am committed to not letting the record go unchallenged when I know for a fact the record is being misrepresented. In fact, the Senator from Massachusetts earlier this afternoon misrepresented the facts about Governor Bush's record in…

we have just passed the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 2000. I am very pleased that we have been able, in a very bipartisan way, to pass this bill. I would like to just talk a little bit about how we came to pass the Aviation…

I rise today to refute everything the Senator from Massachusetts has said about my State and my Governor. Mr. President, I think it is legitimate to talk about a person's record when you are running for President of the United States. But…

the State of Texas has just surpassed New York as the second largest State in America. That didn't happen because our State wasn't well run. It didn't happen because we have a sorry education system. It didn't happen because we don't take…

I wish to discuss for a moment this Rand report that has been quoted so many times by Senator Kennedy and others. It seems there are some people in the Rand organization who have put something out showing Texas in a bad light in the…

I rise to discuss the Hospital Preservation Act that Senator Abraham and I introduced last year. We achieved partial relief for hospitals last year, but we have reintroduced it this year in an attempt to get more relief for the beleaguered…

this is a very important vote. It is a very important issue. I have been a strong supporter of opening relations with China, of opening trade with China, not because China has been the kind of ally we would all hope it would be but because…

I keep hearing the Democrats talk about tax breaks for the wealthy. I have talked to couples who make $30,000 apiece. I have asked them directly: Do you think that you are wealthy? Do you think that you do not send enough money to the…

cheerful, fun, accessible, down to earth, loyal, friend--those are the words you think of immediately when describing Paul Coverdell. I am not going to make a long statement today because I know there will be a time set aside for our…