Russ Feingold

the Feingold-Durbin-Kerry amendment would increase funding for the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria by $593 million, and it would offset that increase in funding by rescinding funds from the Navy V-22 Osprey aircraft procurement…

The system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. [...] After 20 years on the high court, I have to acknowledge that serious questions are being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered in…

the lobbying on this bill has been intensive. There's been a great deal of coverage in recent weeks about the wealthy interests that have collided over whether the nation should have a Patients' Bill of Rights, and what that bill should…

on April 2 of this year, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass the McCain-Feingold bill and ban soft money. Even before the roll was called on final passage and 59 Senators voted ``aye,'' the Senate's foremost opponent of reform declared…

here we go again. Late last week, senior Administration officials indicated that the Bush Administration plans to submit to Congress, several months late, a budget request for the Department of Defense that increases the already bloated…

I rise to speak on the Federal Government's execution today of Juan Raul Garza. This is a sad day for our Federal criminal justice system. The principle of equal justice under law was dealt a severe blow. The American people's reason for…

I rise today to speak with grave concern about a report released by the Justice Department yesterday on our Federal Government's administration of the death penalty. In that report and in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee…

I must oppose the amendment to S. 1, the BEST Act, offered by the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Voinovich. This amendment would require the State educational agencies, SEAs, to ``jointly prepare a plan to carry out the responsibilities of the…

Today I rise along with the Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Corzine, and the Senator from New York, Mrs. Clinton, and others, to introduce the End Racial Profiling Act of 2001. This bill is a package of steps to eliminate racial profiling…

I am proud to once again be an original cosponsor of the Grassley-Schumer bill on cameras in the courtroom. I strongly support allowing cameras in federal courtrooms for a simple reason. Trials and court hearings are public proceedings…

I have so far voted for all of President Bush's nominees for positions in the Department of Justice and other executive branch departments. As I have explained before, I believe that the President's choices for executive positions are due…

I regret that I opposed a number of amendments to this legislation that I might otherwise support because they are not adequately offset. The legislation before us already puts us at risk of raiding the Medicare and Social Security Trust…

I will vote against this tax bill because it is not fiscally responsible. This enormous tax cut may end up raiding the Medicare and Social Security Trust Fund balances. It risks a return to the annual budget deficits Congress worked so…

this amendment is about tax fairness. The bill before us is tilted heavily toward high-income taxpayers. According to Citizens for Tax Justice, when this bill's tax cuts are fully phased in, the highest-income one percent of taxpayers…

it is no secret that the benefits of this bill are not fairly distributed. The highest-income one percent receive 35 percent of this bill's benefits. A significant contributor to this imbalance is the estate tax provisions of the bill…

I am happy to join with the Senator from Arizona in offering this amendment. Actually, that is not true. I am not really happy we are offering the amendment; I am disappointed and puzzled. Because this amendment should be totally…

I rise to add my thoughts to this important debate about the proposed annual testing requirements for students in grades 3-8. This bill that we are debating would require states to implement annual testing in reading and math by the…

I rise with regret to oppose this conference report on the budget resolution. I regret this Congress appears willing to turn its back on 8 years of fiscal responsibility and prudent stewardship of our Nation's resources. The favorable…

I rise to voice my objection to another blow committed by this majority against the Senate. I wish to express my dismay with the majority leader's decision, of which I first learned in Monday's Roll Call, summarily to fire the Senate…

I rise to speak on a report issued yesterday by the Joint Committee on Taxation and hearings that are being conducted today in the Finance Committee on the subject of tax simplification. Last week, on April 16, millions of Americans mailed…

As we welcome the blooms of spring this April, we should also take a moment to focus on the well-being of our most precious resource, our children. Since 1983, April has been nationally recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Since…

we have had a full two week debate on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001. It has been a good debate, and the bill has been improved and perfected in many respects. Thirty-eight amendments were offered, and 17 were adopted. Our vote…

I rise to reflect on the road this legislation has traveled, and thank the many Members of this body, past and present, who have helped to bring us to this moment. It has been a long road to this moment, and we wouldn't even have begun…

I hope we have something that takes a more reasonable approach to the landlord-tenant situation.

we Americans take pride in our freedom and independence. Central to our sense of who we are is our firm belief that we are free to walk the paths of our own choosing, free to move about as we please, free from the intrusion of the…