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SENATE—Thursday, April 12, 2007 April 12, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 153, Pt. 6 8723 SENATE—Thursday, April 12, 2007 The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was SCHEDULE you-go budget that cut taxes for work- called to order by the Honorable BEN- Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morn- ing people and invested more in edu- JAMIN L. CARDIN, a Senator from the ing there will be a period of 60 minutes cation, veterans, and health care. And State of Maryland. for morning business. The majority I might say that as a result of Senator will control the first 30 minutes and JOHNSON being incapacitated for the PRAYER the Republicans the second 30 minutes. next few weeks, we were able to pass The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- Following morning business, the Sen- that budget even though the margin fered the following prayer: ate will resume the motion to proceed here was 50 to 49. We had two brave Re- Let us pray. to S. 372, the Intelligence authorization publicans to join with us on this very Lord of humanity, forgive our foolish bill, and vote soon thereafter on a mo- sound budget, which we appreciate ways. We have tried to enjoy freedom tion to invoke cloture on the motion to very much—Senators SNOWE and COL- without duty and have attempted to proceed. I have been advised that the LINS—and it was done even though in the past the Republicans couldn’t pass receive forgiveness without true re- chairman of the Intelligence Com- the budget with a much larger major- pentance. Forgive us. We have received mittee, Senator ROCKEFELLER, will be ity than we have. without gratitude and without giving on the floor and will speak prior to the Yesterday, we passed legislation of- in return. Forgive us. We have sought vote. fering the promise of stem cell re- Later today, I will have more to say for victory without wisdom or sac- search in a responsible, ethical way, about the schedule for the remainder of rifice. Show us the folly of our ways. with 66 votes—or actually 63, but three Transform our contrition into exem- this week. A lot will depend on what Democratic Senators were unable to be plary living for Your glory. happens in the motion to proceed on here. They would have voted for that. Today, bless our Senators as they the Intelligence bill. So 66—1 short of being able to override labor for You and country. Create in f the promised veto of the President. I them hearts fit to be filled with Your FIRST 100 DAYS think it is very possible we will get presence and minds ready to think Mr. REID. Mr. President, last No- this bill, and it will be the first to over- Your thoughts. Go before them to show ride the President’s veto. I think we the way. vember, the call for change in Wash- ington rang out from coast to coast. can do that. There must be another Re- We pray in Your merciful Name. publican who will step forward, in a The Presiding Officer was one of the re- Amen. profile in courage, and vote with us and sults of that historic vote on November f give hope to millions of Americans. 7, which has been good for the people of In the weeks ahead, we will turn our the State of Maryland and for the peo- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE focus to reducing drug costs for senior ple of this country. The American peo- citizens. That is going to be a battle The Honorable BENJAMIN L. CARDIN ple called for us to put partisanship led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: because the wealthy, strong, powerful aside in pursuit of common ground, to pharmaceutical industry has hired I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the end the culture of corruption, to cast nearly every lobbyist in town—those United States of America, and to the Repub- away the rubber stamp, and, most im- with Gucci shoes and chauffeur-driven lic for which it stands, one nation under God, portantly, to change the course in Iraq. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. limousines—and they have been flood- This Congress has heard that call. As ing this Capitol to prevent the Amer- f we reach our 100th day, we are well on ican people from having the benefit of our way to delivering a government as Medicare being able to negotiate for APPOINTMENT OF ACTING good and honest as the people it serves. lower priced drugs. The big HMOs, the PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE From the very first day, we knew all health care providers, and the insur- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The our progress would depend on renewing ance companies can but not Medicare. clerk will please read a communication the people’s faith in the integrity of What does that say? It says the phar- to the Senate from the President pro Congress. And just as an aside, Mr. maceutical industry is way too power- tempore (Mr. BYRD). President, I would note that while I am ful. But we are going to have a shot at The legislative clerk read the fol- not much of a poll watcher, it was it. We will see how much power the lowing letter: brought to my attention earlier this pharmaceutical industry has over the U.S. SENATE, week that the polls showed the Amer- Senate. On this side of the aisle, they PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, ican people are much more supportive have very little power, but we will see Washington, DC, April 12, 2007. of the Congress than they were just a how much power they have over on the To the Senate: few months ago. A lot of that is as a re- other side of the aisle. So we are going Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, sult of what we have been able to do to try to allow Medicare to negotiate of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby here. for lower priced drugs. appoint the Honorable BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Our first order of business was pass- We are going to do our very best to a Senator from the State of Maryland, to ing the toughest lobbying ethics re- perform the duties of the Chair. develop a new strategy for energy, and form legislation in the Nation’s his- ROBERT C. BYRD, we are going to act as quickly as we President pro tempore. tory, and we have done that. We voted can to see what we can come up with to give working Americans a much de- Mr. CARDIN thereupon assumed the regarding comprehensive immigration served and long overdue raise in the chair as Acting President pro tempore. reform. We passed something here last minimum wage. We passed a con- year. We did it without the help of the f tinuing resolution that enacted tough President. With the help of the Presi- spending limitations, and earmarks dent this year, maybe we can do better. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY were eliminated. We passed every sin- I certainly hope so. He says he wants to LEADER gle recommendation of the 9/11 Com- help, but actions speak louder than The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- mission, after they languished in the words. pore. The majority leader is recog- Congress for years with nothing being All the while, during these first 100 nized. done. We passed a responsible pay-as- days, as I mentioned, we retired the ● This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:23 Apr 12, 2010 Jkt 059102 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR07\S12AP7.000 S12AP7 emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BOUND RECORD 8724 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 153, Pt. 6 April 12, 2007 rubber stamp and restored Congress to right the unconscionable situations at passed a bill that funds our troops and its rightful, constitutionally mandated Walter Reed and other VA medical fa- at the same time changes our mission role as a coequal branch of Govern- cilities, because our troops do deserve from policing a civil war to focusing on ment. The Bush administration is fi- that support. The support of the Amer- counterterrorism. We have worked on nally being held accountable for some ican troops doesn’t end when they resolutions that offer alternatives to of its failures—and I say some of them, leave Iraq; it must continue when they the President’s head-in-the-sand policy whether the political manipulation at come home to American soil. in Iraq. We have held hearings to ask the Department of Justice, where we No single piece of legislation will the tough questions that have gone learned today that all the e-mails deal- bring this tragic war to a climax. The unasked over the past 4 years of the ing with their so-called political com- American people understand that, but war. We have also made our country puters appear to have been destroyed they elected us to lead the way, to safer and more secure by implementing or hidden—just part of the manipula- chart a new course, showing President the 9/11 Commission recommendations. tions of this very historic Justice De- Bush the way forward, and in these We have funded homeland security partment, and I mean historic in the first 100 days, we have done precisely grant programs, improved communica- sense of being the most corrupt ever, that on the war in Iraq and the issues tions for first responders, increased in- the most inept ever.
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