Pete Sessions

I thank the Senator. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Virginia.

I think under the UC, I was given a few minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alabama.

I thank the chairman. There is no committee on which I serve that is more of a pleasure to work and has a better bipartisan spirit. Chairman Warner and Senator Levin deserve much credit for that. We get to make a number of trips. Nobody…

There might be a contest between which of these amendments is most poorly drafted. The Reid amendment that kicked off this event, that surprised me when it came up in this last minute, says that ``No Federal employee who discloses, or has…

That is another example of the poor drafting of this statute, to hold somebody accountable for a perfectly innocent mistake--a strict liability statute that requires only the revealing of information that somebody happened to be a covert…

I believe we have, on behalf of the majority leader, Senator Frist, some closing remarks and matters. ____________________

With regard to this feasibility study, the study is really to determine the effect of the casing that we use on nuclear weapons--hardened casing--and how deeply that would penetrate. It is not going to be a feasibility study in which a…

I thank the Senator, also the Chair of the Budget Committee. He answered very well when he said we can't always fund the new things we want to do by pumping new money into them. Sometimes we need to ask ourselves if there is not some money…

I ask if the Majority Whip will yield for a question? Mr. McCONNELL. I am happy to yield.

That is good. And I apologize for not being here and hearing your remarks to begin with. I would not have asked that.

I would ask the Senator, before she leaves--I notice the debates over filibusters have seen people maybe flip and change their views--but I would ask her if it is not true that she just said a few moments ago that we must keep the…

Isn't it true that Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader, sought cloture to give Berzon and Paez an up-or-down vote, and those of us who opposed Berzon and Paez, as the Senator from Kentucky did, voted for cloture to give them an…

Let me ask this, with the presence of the distinguished former chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Chamber. At that very moment when it was to the Republican interests to initiate a filibuster, if we chose to do so, at that moment…

We spoke earlier about how Members provided information back and forth not only to the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the Homeland Security Department but also about how we were able to have a Committee on Rules meeting yesterday…

I understand there is a unanimous consent to have 2 minutes, 1 minute on each side. I prefer to have more. I ask unanimous consent we have 3 minutes on each side.

That is all I am suggesting. Let's go on and make that upfront, and maybe we will be able to hold this full increase for our highway funding. I thank the Chair and yield the floor.

At this time I am very, very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox), the young chairman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security, a very distinguished Member of Congress, and a man who has worked very…

I note that I am extremely proud, as all of our Nation is, of the Tuskegee Airmen. Recently, I had the privilege to be in Iraq and visit the airbase where the unit, still known as the Tuskegee Airmen, was deployed. They had their banners…

For over three decades, John Bolton has had an effective working relationship with foreign governments, international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. He is a man who gets results. As Secretary Rice…

I would allow the gentlewoman, with the permission of the Speaker, to go ahead and make her closing.

A gentleman who came to the Rules Committee last night to seek the opportunity to debate today this very important energy bill is here with us today. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee ( Mr. Wamp).

Mr. Speaker I yield myself such time as I may consume. This bill is pro-consumer. This energy bill is pro-growth for our economy in this country. And the Republican majority owes a great deal of the strength and ability of this strong bill…

For those here illegally and want amnesty to be given even though they have already violated immigration laws.

The act says three convictions of misdemeanors. The Senator is right. It can be up to 6 months or a year.

Close to a million, if you take the figure of 700,000. I am not sure we have thought it through. The Senator, I believe--who was here in 1987 when the 1986 amnesty was passed--would admit that the estimate of how many people would take…