Scott Fitzgerald

But, listen, I'm concerned. I think that governor-elect Evers is going to bring a liberal agenda to Wisconsin.

NASA is known for hiring the brightest and most adept people in the world to execute the functions of space exploration and research. I am proud to recognize some of their youngest employees, who work not out of Houston, Texas, but from…

I rise with some sadness on my last time to speak on the Senate floor. It is a very bittersweet occasion for me because I have loved every minute of the last 6 years, and I will miss this body greatly. I am sure I will think about it every…

I am joined today by Senator Daniel K. Akaka in introducing the Financial Accountability Expansion Act of 2004, which would ensure the fiscal accountability of Federal entities. This bill would strengthen Federal financial management by…

as one of the two Senators from Illinois, I am very proud of Ronald Reagan and his contributions to this country. Ronald Reagan is the only American President who was, in fact, born in Illinois. Many people think of Abraham Lincoln as…

I rise today with Senator Bond in support of a bill to put into place recommendations by the Army Corps of Engineers for navigation capacity improvements and ecosystem restoration for the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers Waterway…

a couple of days ago, Elaine Chao, Secretary of the Department of Labor; John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury; and Don Evans, the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, the three board members of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation…

I conclude by saying that Senator Paul Simon was a credit to the State of Illinois and a credit to the Senate, and we will miss him. God rest his soul and may God bless his widow and family. Exhibit 1 [From the Chicago Tribune, Feb. 28…

I understand that preliminary estimates suggest that buying no more than 80 tankers in a way that avoids lease-specific costs could save taxpayers as much as $5.3 billion over the Air Force's original proposal to lease 100 tankers. The…

I have in my hands a chart that was prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service that shows that of the Presidents going back to Carter, in 1977, through August 1, 2003, the Senate has blocked a higher percentage and a higher…

As I stated during a Commerce Committee hearing on September 2, 2003 regarding this issue, the original lease transaction is nothing more than a complex, byzantine transaction that obscured the true cost of the tankers, reduced the…

I want to present a counterpoint, I guess, to the opinions of my distinguished colleague. I think he made a very eloquent case in favor of why we should have class action lawsuits in this country, and I would simply point out to my…

I will say a couple of words in support of his nomination. Since 1978, Mr. Der-Yeghiayan has worked in the United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service first as a trial attorney in Chicago, later as acting…

Does the Senator know why people would oppose the authority of regulators to ban wash trades? Has anybody explained that to the Senator?

That was probably a huge percentage of their revenues--all fictitious--from doing wash trades on an online exchange with no economic purpose. But that fictitious revenue was fooling the investing public, making people think that company…

Because they were simply trading back and forth amongst themselves at a price that really was not determined on an arms' length basis. They were just engaging in bogus trades back and forth to artificially set a price or to artificially…

And no one can find out what prices they were trading at, either. There is no price discovered.

I ask Senator Feinstein if it is true that under the current law no one can do anything about these wash trades because of this Enron loophole that is in the law. We are trying to take that out, so somebody could actually ban this kind of…

If someone is operating a corrupt exchange and there is no price discovery and no regulation, isn't it true that a customer could call into that exchange and say, I want to trade oil at $30 a barrel, and the broker could tell them he could…

They do not do these wash trades at the exchange in New York because all of that would be transparent to the public.

If we had the same problem somewhere in the stock market and people couldn't figure out the price of a stock by looking in the newspaper or looking on the Internet to see what the published price of a stock was on the exchange, if instead…

I want to call upon the House to act on the unemployment insurance compensation relief that we have passed in this body. I have been a cosponsor with other Members on this side of the aisle, as well as Senators Clinton and Sarbanes on the…

this year we mark the 57th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust. There are as many as 10,000 survivors of the Holocaust in my home State of Illinois, and over 100,000 in the entire United States, with an average age of over 80. Last…

I introduce a bill to reinstate a license surrendered to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that authorized the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Carlyle, Illinois. In order to facilitate the construction of the…

I do oppose Senator Durbin's bill with respect to O'Hare. Mr. Durbin said it is necessary to pass this bill in order to expand O'Hare Airport. But I would point out that never in the history of our country, that I am aware of, has any…