Jay Rockefeller

today, I introduce the EPSCoR Research and Competitive Act of 2006, and I am proud to have the bipartisan support of my colleagues, Senators Snowe, Inouye, Cochran and Johnson. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research…

I rise today with Senators Schumer and Leahy to introduce an important piece of legislation for seniors, individual with disabilities, children, and anyone who is taking a brand name prescription drug with a generic equivalent. The bill we…

the Senate has passed an important bill, Chairman Grassley's Improving Outcomes for Children Affected by ``Meth'' Act of 2006. This legislation will reauthorize the Safe and Stable Families Program and target $40 million in new funding to…

Baisden is one of several students visiting Washington for the Poetry of Rural Places program, representing the National Writing Project, NWP, and the Rural School and Community Trust initiatives. Working together in a unique partnership…

Mr. President I am very pleased that the Senate is taking the necessary steps today to move forward with a reasonable tax relief package. In the coming days, conferees from the Senate and the House will work together to craft a final bill…

I simply want to thank the chairman of the Finance Committee, and I thank the ranking member for working this out and having everybody in it together. I welcome working with Senator Santorum. It is a good thing to do. It is dark days in…

I rise to let my colleagues know that, at an appropriate time, I plan to offer an amendment to the package of tax cuts that the Senate is, in fact, considering today. The recent tragedy in West Virginia's coal mines, as well as in…

it is my honor today to join with my colleague Senator Byrd, who I am sure will be here very shortly. We are very proud to announce that we are, as an entire West Virginia delegation, introducing the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of…

last week I came before this body to highlight the potentially harmful effects of budget reconciliation on our Nation's working families. I asked my colleagues to hold firm against the special interests in order to protect the Federal…

I have asked to address the Senate on a national security matter of great concern to me. I call my colleagues' attention to the Senate's inexplicable failure to pass the fiscal year 2006 Intelligence authorization bill. The bill was…

there are many provisions within this reconciliation conference report that are deeply troubling to me, but at this point, I want to focus my concerns on provisions that undermine the historic 1996 welfare reform bill. That bill changed…

the massive devastation inflicted upon our southern States by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma reminded all Americans how important it is that the Federal Government be able to respond quickly and effectively when disaster strikes. We…

this budget is about choices. We in Congress can choose to protect Medicaid, the Federal safety net for over 50 million Americans, by supporting the Baucus motion to instruct. Or we can turn our backs on the millions of working families…

I am very pleased to offer an amendment with my colleagues: Senator Isakson and Senator Lott. Our amendment provides important pension relief to the airline industry, which has struggled financially as a result of the September 11…

today, I want to commend my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee for taking a step forward to help our soldiers who are wounded, and removed from the combat zone for medical treatment. Under current law, when soldiers are removed…

it is my understanding, from the colloquy we had around the desk of the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, in order to expedite the whole process, we would lead with the Kerry amendment, and we would then proceed onward. I thought…

I thank, as always, the distinguished senior Senator from the State of Virginia. ____________________

I commend Senator Levin and others for their leadership in proposing this amendment. I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the amendment based on the belief that a comprehensive, objective, and independent investigation into the…

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services--CMS, approved a comprehensive Section 1115 waiver for the State of Florida, the latest in a string of waivers that allows States to dramatically reshape the financing and…

I oppose the legislation the Senate is considering today. This bill does not reflect American values. Although proponents of the bill try to claim that this is a deficit reduction bill, it is transparently not so. This bill is only the…

Chairman Grassley, I thank you for your willingness to work with me. This is a matter of good government. The Government Accountability Office has published several reports which indicate that the Department of Health and Human Services…

within the conference report on the interior appropriations bill is an essential provision to provide $1.5 billion to address the current shortfall in funding for VA health care. The Interior appropriations conference report was selected…

on July 30, 1965, with one stroke of the pen, President Lyndon Baines Johnson created two Federal programs that gave America's poor and elderly access to high-quality comprehensive health care. Having grown up in the Hill Country of Texas…

on July 25 and 26, 2005, I was absent from the Senate because I was taking care of an important family matter. During those days, I missed the following six rollcall votes. Rollcall vote No. 206, taken on July 26, 2005, on the motion to…

today, I rise, along with my cosponsor, Senator DeWine, to reintroduce legislation called I TEACH, Incentives to Educate America's Children Act of 2005. This legislation is an investment to support teachers in rural areas, and high poverty…