It gives me great pleasure to discuss H. Con. Res. 284, legislation to recognize the work and importance of special education teachers in America. In 1972, the United States Supreme Court ruled that children with disabilities have the…

Perhaps we have been too silent in failing to criticize some of the activities of Russia. We want to be friends with them, but good friends tell friends the truth. I believe my colleagues are speaking the truth.

the Judiciary Committee is now reviewing the record of Elena Kagan, President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. The truth is, her legal record is thin. She has never been a judge and has very limited experience even in the practice of…

since Ms. Kagan was nominated, President Obama and his administration have attempted to defend not only her discriminatory treatment of the military at Harvard but to do so through misleading and even untrue statements. Indeed, Vice…

the legislation we have before us today and have been working on is problematic. It is just not healthy because it is going to increase the debt to a significant degree. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Democrats' first…

I just wish to point out how the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is a complete shell game. It is an absolute double counting of money, and it adds to the debt, and the debt of the bill in the way it has been scored hides the real impact…

We still have difficulty getting firm numbers, as the Senator pointed out, about how many might be available and what prospects we have for the arrival of more skimmers, is that correct? ... We need results. It is not just about effort; we…

I wish to thank Senator LeMieux for raising this matter. I was at the Alabama gulf coast on Friday. We were told there was a batch of oil 30 feet wide, 2 miles long that they could see coming onto the shores of the beaches that had not yet…

Well, has the Senator ascertained that anybody in our government is scouring the world and the United States to try to move every single skimmer that could possibly be brought to the gulf coast? If not, we are awfully late, wouldn't the…

Does the Senator understand that Admiral Allen has the power--or the President does--to enter into Jones Act waivers that need to be entered into, and that presumably could be done in a matter of minutes or hours? What is holding this up…

Our Governor has called up 300 National Guardsmen, and I think it needs to be done under title 32, which is Federal status under State control. The President on Tuesday evening said: I have authorized the deployment of over 17,000 National…

I want to speak briefly on the President's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The more we examine her record, the more concerns there are that her legal judgments might be infected by her very liberal political views. We see…