Kay Bailey Hutchison

I, too, want to commend our two leaders for working together on this very important issue. I think all of us believe that it is our responsibility, as the U.S. Senate, to work in a bipartisan way with the President of the United States on…

The clear choice is, do you believe that we should increase Government spending by $123 billion this year or do you think the hard-working American family should get back more of the money it has earned and worked for. And do you think we…

I am pleased today to support, along with my distinguished colleagues, Senators Murray, Snowe, Landrieu, Feinstein, Boxer, Mikulski, Moseley-Braun, and Collins this concurrent resolution to grant recognition to the effort now underway to…

I think all of us have come together on a bill that will give Amtrak a chance to succeed and will also make Amtrak accountable. In fact, Senator Lott, the majority leader, who has worked on this for, as he said, 3 years--he was the Surface…

I am one of the most prodefense people in this body and I think most of this bill is very good and very important. I am going to speak on the part of the bill that I think is very shortsighted and will, in fact, hurt our readiness in the…

I am such a believer in passenger rail transportation for our country. I think we are going to come to closure on an Amtrak reform bill that will allow Amtrak at least to have a chance to succeed. It is not a slam dunk and there is no…

Mr. President, I appreciate Senator Stevens' putting this bill forward, along with Senator Burns, because I think this is exactly the way the process should work. I am, frankly, puzzled by some of my colleagues who are arguing that they…

Just to end my remarks, if you want to have the argument on fairness, I will just quote from the junior Senator from Oklahoma who says in the newspaper that the requirements that are in this bill put on contractors new language which would…

For many years, the United States has attempted to negotiate commonsense changes to this system with Japan. Japan also faced criticism from the European Union. However, no progress was made until earlier this year when the FMC voted to…

Americans should not have to choose between love and money. In a country that values families, the Federal Tax Code shouldn't punish people for being married. The number of unmarried-couple households increased 80 percent from 1980 to…

Amtrak is at a crisis point. Actually, it faces two crises: a strike and the financial crisis brought about by failure to reform the railroad. Reform is a prerequisite to accessing the much-needed capital Congress provided for the railroad…

The Majority Leader has summed up this situation exactly. If we really care about our national rail passenger system, the communities that it serves, the employees that work there and the role it plays in our transportation infrastructure…

Mr. President, I think we are talking about the future of public education. I have heard people say, why not just improve public education? That is what we are trying to do. That is the bottom line of what this amendment is trying to…

if these concerns are not addressed, one of our country's most successful programs, the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program, may be jeopardized. Under that program, the Federal Government has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in…

My amendment leaves the amount for the commitment to the arts at the same level as the committee bill does. It does, however, make some reforms that I think will improve the NEA and most certainly will improve the commitment to the arts…

I call up my amendment to the NEA bill, which is the appropriate order. The amendment is as follows: Beginning on page 96, strike line 14 and all that follows through line 8 on page 97, and insert the following: (a) Funding.--For necessary…

I think if you are going to make constructive change, you have to start with an outline. I think that is what the Senator from Washington has done. While he has brought the bill to the floor, essentially not changing the status quo, he has…

I think it is really a healthy thing that we are going to be debating the NEA and what kind of funding the NEA has and how it is allocated, because I think a number of people in our country have concerns about some of the types of grants…

Mr. President, let me just say that I am a supporter of medical education. I have supported every amendment that has come through here, and I have sponsored amendments that add to the medical schools' part of Medicare funding. I want…

I am today raising the question, do we have a reasonable chance to succeed with the underlying policy? There is no question that our troops are doing a great job. There is no question that our new commander, Gen. Wes Clark, is absolutely…

I am glad the Senator is on this point because in the original mission statement in the Dayton accords there was a provision to capture war criminals, but it was going to be a police force within the Federation. It was going to be a police…

all of us have heartfelt grief for the people of Great Britain. That is why the Senate is acting in this resolution, saying this is a woman and a leader who cared so much about AIDS victims, people who did not have the chance in life that…

Today is a historic day. We will vote and pass the first substantial tax cut in 16 years, giving much-needed, long-overdue tax relief to working American families. We have been working for tax cuts for 3 years now, and we are making a…

Thank you. I had hoped we would be able to accomplish the necessary Amtrak reforms within the context of this tax bill. I believe that Members of the Senate from both parties were prepared to do that. Given that Amtrak has warned us it…

I hope that the negotiations are about to come to an end and we will give the American family the first tax break they have had in 16 years. I think it is an incredible thing to say that we haven't had a real tax cut in this country for 16…