Mike Enzi

Subtitle B of title II of S. 1028 establishes the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration. That simple purpose of that nonprofit Foundation is to lead collaborations among the FDA, academic research institutions and…

However, there is much more work to be done. This amendment is a good first step on the road to a comprehensive response to food safety. In March 2005, Senator Kennedy and I announced that we were working to develop a comprehensive…

I want to thank all of the key members--Senator Hutchison, Senator Mikulski, Senator Kennedy and others for their ongoing work and dedication to this program. I am glad that we have been able to complete our work today and send this bill…

I echo what the Senator from Massachusetts said, that this does provide for authorization. There is room for that to be included, and we can help look for the resources to do something on that. I commend both Senator Roberts and Senator…

This Nation has a lot of problems with HIV and AIDS that need to be taken care of. There is one bill that does that fairly--a bill that the House overwhelmingly passed. A bill with a comprehensive, fair and equitable solution. There is…

According to a February 2006 report by the GAO, Pennsylvania would lose $9 million and California would lose $18.5 million in 1 year. With this bill that allows those States to still count the people that matter while the systems are…

CDC has offered to provide assistance to States throughout the process. In fact, I recently confirmed today that CDC has already offered California technical assistance--up to six staff for up to 6 months--to help them make this change…

Under the bipartisan, bicameral product, California and Pennsylvania will have 4 more years to make the change. Thus, you both will have had over a decade to convert your systems. However, in fiscal year 2011, only CDC standards for HIV…

The 2000 reauthorization stated that States need to have CDC accepted HIV data as early as 2005 but not later than 2007. Therefore, States have already had seven years to make this change.

This bill is critical to people all over the United States. There are HIV/AIDS families in every single State asking Congress to pass this bill and to pass it immediately. Thirteen States, on September 30, will have huge losses in revenue…

I don't have that number. Like I say, we ran about 300 different iterations of different formulas. I will get the Senator that number. But there is 3 years hold harmless in this. You are talking about 5 years hold harmless. Hold harmless…

There aren't 14 States that would lose money unless the new bill doesn't pass. There are only five States that will lose money under the new bill, the bill we are trying to get passed by unanimous consent--the bill that we are at least…

I rise again today to ask unanimous consent that the Senate pass S. 2823, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act...to explain why their parochial interests should be permitted to deny lifesaving care to people who don't live…

Yes. The provisions do apply to all distributions made after the date of enactment.

The capital preservation and loss protection rules are intended to provide long-term protection to employees, so the determination of whether the rules are satisfied is made at the time benefits commence but not beforehand. In the case of…

The capital preservation rule applies to applicable defined benefit plans, such as cash balance and pension equity plans. To illustrate how the rule operates in the case of a cash balance plan, the rule requires that the cumulative effect…

In answer to the question, Mr. President, I can't tell how long it will take for the Joint Tax Committee to have the new numbers. But I can tell you, I didn't know that the Senator was going to offer his amendment until yesterday. The…

I would like to be able to do that. I don't have the numbers that I need to have. I appreciate the question, but I can't give you an answer yet.

No, Mr. President. Senator Kennedy filed an amendment that dealt with the minimum wage. I actually won't send mine to the desk right now, but I would like to comment on that right now.

It has not been debated in the Senate before. The House has done it for the past 12 years. They passed it eight times, but we have never done it on the Senate side. It has not made it out of committee before.

Over a period of years, that has been debated and voted on here, and it has been voted down.

I have been next to conversations but not a part of the conversation where that was absolutely the case. I have heard speeches in the Senate where that absolutely was the case. I know there are three different proposals that will be voted…

And there is only one opportunity to talk about small business. I have been trying to expand that opportunity as much as possible. That is why I propounded this unanimous consent, so that it could be absolutely clear that both methods of…

It would do me no good to change the unanimous consent, so we have 2 more hours of debate or have germane amendments available to your bill?

Our purpose is to get a vote on small business health plans of some form. You proposed a small business health plan. I proposed a small business health plan. I would like for both of them to be able to get a vote so that small business can…