Pete Sessions

I am proud of what the Committee on Rules has done. I am proud of the debate that we have had today, and I look forward to the President of the United States having an opportunity, perhaps as early as this afternoon or tomorrow, to sign…

I love Phil Gramm. I have loved him virtually since I have come to this body. He has consistently been, to me, the most principled, interesting, and courageous battler for America I have ever seen. I have said on many occasions…

Is the Senator aware that after September 11 the Customs Service signed a cooperative agreement with several foreign ports because we are concerned about ports being used to ship weapons of mass destruction here, and the best way to do it…

My friend from Alaska is correct. And I must commend him for the work that he did with the help of the House foreign Operations Subcommittee on this issue. The conferees were able to ensure that organizations that are working for the…

It is great legislation. It makes sense. It will aid not only small business but encourage the opportunity for big business and small business to be more competitive around the globe. This not only makes sense, what we are doing, but it…

You raise taxes, you increase spending. We know there are two sides to this equation. The fact of the matter is the last tax increase we had in 1993 that was retroactive, that reached back, the bottom line is they increased taxes to pay…

I wanted to offer this amendment to the emergency supplemental bill because it is, in fact, an emergency. The wage index is causing hospitals in rural areas all over America to close their doors and to turn away patients. We cannot allow…

I am pleased we were able to work out an agreement that $100,000 will be authorized for that purpose. Methane is one of the cleanest of all burning fuels. Methane produces good energy and, at the same time, it is very clean energy. The…

First I want to express my personal appreciation to Senator Kyl for his leadership on this issue since I have been in the Senate. There is no one here who understands it more than he, or has fought more effectively to see it become more a…

My request would be that there be one last attempt to make a bipartisan compromise here. We have people such as Senator Lugar, Senator Cochran, Senator Grassley, Senator Roberts, with deep histories in farm legislation, who are troubled by…

Mr. Speaker, we have heard a vigorous debate today about this issue. We have heard a good number of speakers say that we did it the hard way. They would have done it the easy way. I think they are right; we did do it the hard way. But I…

Mr. Speaker, it is obvious we disagree on this. But for someone to stand up in this body and argue that because of what we are going to do here today, it would encumber the Senate and ultimately would mean that this bill could not be…

Karon Bowdre is a first-rate judicial nominee. Karon Bowdre has been a student, a legal practitioner, and a professor of law. She graduated cum laude from the Cumberland School of Law, where she served as associate editor of the Cumberland…

I thank the President. I express my appreciation for the good work of the Senator from Louisiana on the issues that she described. I appreciate her commitment to education and to the improvement of education.

I again want to express my appreciation to the Senator. I came to the Senate 5 years ago and heard the Senator delineate this problem and tell us over and over again what we were going to be facing in the future. I think the events in…

I guess the point is, these are supposedly our friends who triple the price we have to pay for oil. We have to pay three times as much money to foreign sources, and we get no more oil than we did the day before they drove it up?

I know there are people who have become emotionally committed to this ANWR issue. I hope people will rethink it. As the Senator from Alaska has explained repeatedly, we have such a small area that needs to be produced, and wells are so…

If they can do that, if they are friends, if we were to have some turnover in government or a war were to break out that could deny some of this, we could see prices even higher than that on the world market?

Of course, the Senator is not overlooking conservation. That is another way to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Instead of having workers in Saudi Arabia paying taxes to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or Iran, they would be paying taxes to the U.S. Government.

But if we were to open ANWR, the Federal Government, just from the sale of the leases, would receive $1.6 billion?

I thank Senator Specter for his leadership and courtesy in allowing me to present this amendment which I believe is exceedingly important to health care in America. It is a problem with which we simply have to deal. It affects hospitals…

But it would alter current law. Under current law, the plan has been for Prison Industries to produce products for sale to the Federal Government thereby improving prison conditions and receiving some financial benefit to the prison.

I also express my appreciation for all who have been involved in this bill. I say to Senator Kennedy, a number of people on this side of the aisle have expressed their appreciation for your leadership. You are a great advocate, but also…

The school gets to protect the students until it is complete, no later than 10 days. I think the school system ought to be given some deference. The principals and the teachers love children. They care about their school. They want to do…