Robert C. Byrd

Playing a bureaucratic shell game is simply unacceptable.

If the Administration's position is that the Byrd amendment should not be repealed, why has the Administration not submitted a budget amendment?

This is the law with overwhelming bipartisan support that allows import duties to be distributed to U.S. producers.

It seems that the only thing that American industrial workers can count on receiving under this Administration is a pink slip.

That ruling by a WTO panel is shortsighted, wrongheaded, and dumb.

Just yesterday, I believe it was, these waves claimed another victim as Weirton Steel filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The Administration has sought to eliminate the steel loan guarantee program, rescinding $97 million in available fund from fiscal year 2003 and requesting zero dollars for fiscal year 2004.

And helped to lead to gargantuan deficits.

Unless we raise the debt limits, how can the Treasury Department borrow the money to pay for the President's proposed tax cuts?

So you don't see hyperventilation as something that is imminent?

Temporary tax cuts are being advocated by the President.

Too bad. I don't know what my little granddaughter and great-granddaughters will think about this.

How do you sleep at night?

But in the context of news reports that this Administration will seek new tax cuts every year, are there any circumstances, as far as you can envision, in which the Administration would view tax cuts to be risky or unwise?

I am very, very suspicious of the privatization scheme.

If we are looking for the best value for the American taxpayer, why should the Administration be advocating a proposal that costs more and does less to protect the privacy rights of taxpayers?

The National Treasury Employees Union cites a cost analysis put together last September by former IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti, and that analysis said that if the Congress would appropriate an additional $296 million to hire…

No, I won't. I have talked with Mark about this.

So, in essence, you are suggesting, I suppose, that it is cheaper to contract out those services.

I compliment you on being the new Secretary. You follow a line that goes back to the very beginning of the Republic.

Apparently, the Department has not learned anything from this experience.

If the Congress is to appropriate substantial funding for private sector employment opportunities, I expect that you will first provide Congress...

How can you explain to the American people the willingness of the FAA to take flight safety out of the hands of dedicated public servants...

I believe that the Department of Transportation should be more careful about handing these important functions over to the private sector.

When it comes to taking away the prerogatives of the Congress under the Constitution to have control over that purse, then that is where I hope we will still be together.