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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 110 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 110 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 153 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2007 No. 19 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was appoint the Honorable JON TESTER, a Sen- evening, cloture having been invoked called to order by the Honorable JON ator from the State of Montana, to perform yesterday at about 12:40 p.m. Of course, TESTER, a Senator from the State of the duties of the Chair. once all that time has expired or been Montana. ROBERT C. BYRD, yielded back and the substitute has President pro tempore. been disposed of, cloture on the bill PRAYER Mr. TESTER thereupon assumed the would occur immediately and auto- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- chair as Acting President pro tempore. matically. fered the following prayer: f Mr. President, just a couple of com- Let us pray. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ments. When we complete the debate Almighty God, You give Your spirit on minimum wage and the bill is com- to all who truly desire Your presence. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pleted, we move to Iraq, and that is, as Lord, today, strengthen the Members pore. Under the previous order, the we know, a very contentious issue. But of this legislative body. Lord, strength- leadership time is reserved. as the distinguished Republican leader en them not only to see Your ideal but f last night stated, we are trying to ar- to reach it. Strengthen them not only rive at a point where we can have a RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY to know the right but to do it. good, strong debate. It will take co- LEADER Strengthen them not only to recognize operation, it will take compromise so their duty but to perform it. Strength- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- we can be in a position to have this de- en them not only to seek Your truth pore. The majority leader is recog- bate so all Senators can voice their but to find it. nized. opinion and, hopefully, we can settle Empower our lawmakers to go be- on a finite number of pieces of legisla- yond guessing to knowing, beyond f tion to vote on. That is my goal, and I doubting to certainty, and beyond re- SCHEDULE solving to doing. Give our Senators the hope we can do that. Certainly the Mr. REID. Mr. President, we will be deep inner peace of knowing that You American people deserve this debate. in a period for the transaction of morn- have heard and answered this prayer (The remarks of Mr. REID pertaining ing business for 60 minutes. The first for power. to the introduction of S. 439 are printed We pray in Your mighty Name. half is under the control of the Repub- in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Statements Amen. licans, the second half under the con- on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolu- trol of Senator WYDEN. Following tions.’’) f morning business, we will resume H.R. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I apologize PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 2, the minimum wage bill. to my friend for taking so much time, The Honorable JON TESTER led the As I indicated in closing yesterday, but sometimes one takes what time is Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: we expect Senator KYL to be here this needed. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the morning when we resume the bill. I un- f United States of America, and to the Repub- derstand a number of conversations lic for which it stands, one nation under God, have taken place among Senators BAU- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. CUS, GRASSLEY, KYL, and KENNEDY re- LEADER f garding these amendments. It is antici- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING pated once we are back on the bill pore. The Republican leader is recog- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE there will be debate with respect to one nized. or more of the Kyl amendments and f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that a vote in relation to an amend- clerk will please read a communication ment could occur sometime around IRAQ DEBATE to the Senate from the President pro noon today. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, tempore (Mr. BYRD). Once we have completed action on all with regard to today’s schedule, we The bill clerk read the following let- the amendments, then it is my hope will be working, as the majority leader ter: that we can yield back all the time indicated, on the timing of the Kyl U.S. SENATE, postcloture and then dispose of the amendments. These are important PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, substitute amendment. If we have to amendments which we are going to Washington, DC, January 31, 2007. To the Senate: run the full 30 hours on the substitute, want to have considered in a timely Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, I think I am correct in stating that the fashion. Senator KYL will need to be of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby 30 hours would expire at about 6:40 this able to debate those amendments. We ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S1359 . VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:28 Apr 26, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD07\S31JA7.REC S31JA7 pwalker on PROD1PC69 with CONG-REC-ONLINE S1360 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 31, 2007 probably will be able to get to final I could stand here today and recite Do we pass meaningless resolutions passage tomorrow. quote after quote from Members on that mandate unconstitutional caps on And then, as the majority leader in- both sides of the aisle who were certain the number of troops deployed to Iraq? dicated, he and I have had extensive that Saddam Hussein possessed weap- I am not a military strategist, so I discussions about crafting the various ons of mass destruction. rely on the opinion of experts to edu- proposals, how many we are going to Hussein and his Baathist regime had cate me. have on each side to address the most ruled Iraq as a personal fiefdom for General Petraeus, the new com- important issue in the country right more than 30 years. mander of the Iraqi Multi-National Co- now, which is the Iraq war, and that There is no arguing that Hussein was alition and author of the Army’s new debate, of course, will occur next week. personally responsible for the brutal Counter Insurgency Manual, told me So we will continue our discussions to- deaths of hundreds of thousands of his that he could not succeed in providing ward narrowing down and under- own citizens, invaded two of his neigh- security for the citizens of Baghdad standing fully exactly which resolu- bors, supported worldwide terrorism, and al Anbar Province without the ad- tions, alternate resolutions will need a and violated 17 separate United Na- ditional troops called for in the Presi- vote in the context of that debate. tions resolutions aimed at curtailing dent’s plan. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- his WMD programs. Do we allow the President the ability pore. The majority leader. Seventy-seven Senators voted to give to adjust those troop numbers in an ef- Mr. REID. One final point, Mr. Presi- President Bush the authority to act. fort to bring security to Baghdad and dent. We should understand, all of us, With the clear authority from Con- al Anbar Province? that we may have to have a vote or gress to undertake military operations From what I see, the President has some votes on Monday. Everyone against Saddam Hussein, President the only plan on the table that doesn’t should understand that. And if we have Bush tried long and hard to seek a ensure defeat. It may not be a perfect to have votes on Monday, they could peaceful resolution. Saddam Hussein plan, and it may need to be adjusted in occur earlier rather than later. So ev- could not be reasoned with. the near term, but it is certainly a eryone should understand there may be Following 9/11 and in an age of nu- change from what we’ve been doing so Monday votes. We hope not. As I told clear bombs and other weapons of mass far. the distinguished Republican leader destruction, we could no longer afford One particular area that I believe and as we have announced on a number to sit by and wait on those wanting to needs improvement is our reconstruc- of occasions, we had our retreat, and do us harm to land the first punch. tion effort. the Republicans certainly cooperated We could not wait until we were at- According to the Congressional Re- with us, and we are going to cooperate tacked before acting. Calls for the search Service the United States has with them. These retreats are ex- President to act in order to protect spent over $35.6 billion on reconstruc- tremely important to this body. They America were loud and clear. And the tion efforts. allow us to enhance the political par- President did act. We have to stop squandering our re- In doing so, Saddam Hussein’s regime ties within this great Senate and focus sources on reconstruction projects in was eliminated and some 28 million on what is good for the country. We Iraq that fail to deliver basic security Iraqis were freed from a living hell on have done that, and the Republicans and critical infrastructure.
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