I ask for the yeas and nays and call up amendment No. 2172. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Alabama [Mr. Sessions] proposes an amendment numbered 2172. The amendment is…

food stamp spending has quadrupled--gone up four times--since 2001, increasing twice the rate that the other major poverty program, Medicaid, has increased. It is now the second largest Federal welfare program. An individual on food…

Yes, we would reduce the emissions of mercury since 1990 by 50 percent. Yes, President Bush proposed a very effective, sophisticated plan to further reduce those emissions by 75 percent--75 percent more. But there were problems with it…

I thank my colleague for his remarks. I caught part of the President's statement this afternoon and have gotten a transcript of some of the things he said. As ranking member on the Budget Committee, as someone who has wrestled very…

There would have been private growth and private investment--not an increase in our deficit. But it goes on. In their summary of what the President was going to say, it said he favored a ``tax code that creates American jobs and pays down…

It absolutely is. Let me say this, in his speech--this is a quote from the transcript I have of it--he declared: Both parties have laid out their policies on the table for all to see. Isn't it a fact that the House Republicans passed a…

I thank my colleague for those insights because this is a bit disappointing. It is more than disappointing. The President said, again, that he has a plan, and he has a vision ``of how to create strong, sustained growth,'' and ``how to pay…

as we deal with the farm bill we have to acknowledge that 80 percent of that bill now is the SNAP program, or the Food Stamp Program. I will repeat that--80 percent of this bill. So we need to not call it the farm bill anymore. It needs to…

how long might the majority leader expect to be, and if it is possible to have consent to speak an additional 5 minutes after the majority leader.

I know the Senator is the assistant leader. The majority has a lot of things to do. If he would like to finish now, I would be pleased to yield. The American people are all worried about the direction of our country and for a good reason…

Today, once again, we're on the floor of the House of Representatives with our friends on the other side of the aisle arguing about how we tax the American people, how if we're going to take this tax out we've got to replace it with…

I know the majority leader is extremely busy, and I appreciate his courtesy and respect with the difficult duty he has here. She said: Are you serious? Well, when the Solicitor General of the United States was being grilled by the…