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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 109 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 109 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 151 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2005 No. 148 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was appoint the Honorable SAM BROWNBACK, a MORNING BUSINESS called to order by the Honorable SAM Senator from the State of Kansas, to per- form the duties of the Chair. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- BROWNBACK, a Senator from the State pore. Under the previous order, there of Kansas. TED STEVENS, President pro tempore. will now be a period for the transaction PRAYER Mr. BROWNBACK thereupon as- of morning business for up to 1 hour, sumed the chair as Acting President with the first half of the time under The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- the control of the Democratic leader or fered the following prayer: pro tempore. his designee and the second half of the Let us pray. f O God, who reigns forever, You are a time under the control of the majority RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING shelter for the oppressed and a refuge leader or his designee. MAJORITY LEADER in times of trouble. Give our Nation Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I the shield of Your favor that it may The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- suggest the absence of a quorum. bless our world. Guide our Nation’s leg- pore. The acting majority leader is rec- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- islative branch with wisdom, integrity, ognized. pore. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to and unity. Strengthen the executive f call the roll. and judicial branches that they will SCHEDULE serve Your purposes. Infuse each cit- Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I ask izen with a desire to walk on the right Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, unanimous consent that the order for road in order to honor You and serve today we are going to begin with a 1- the quorum call be rescinded. this land we love. hour period for morning business, and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Bless us all with strength of will, then we will resume consideration of pore. Without objection, it is so or- steadiness of purpose, and power to the Department of Defense authoriza- dered. persevere. Remind us that it is better tion bill. We made good progress on f to attempt and fail in some great that measure yesterday by disposing of MINIMIZING DAMAGE FROM thing, rather than not to try at all. a very large number of amendments. STORMS Lord, teach us to number our days that Today, we hope to work through the re- Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I we may have hearts of wisdom. We maining amendments, and it is possible pray in Your Holy Name. Amen. that we could finish the bill this would like to spend a few minutes this morning speaking about a subject that f evening. The chairman and ranking member are expected to line up addi- is extremely important to the State I PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE tional rollcall votes throughout today, represent, the State of Louisiana, and The Honorable SAM BROWNBACK led and we will alert Senators as those to the gulf coast and also to call atten- the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: votes are scheduled. tion to a small but important victory I Pledge allegiance to the Flag of the The majority leader has mentioned we achieved this week that I hope will United States of America, and to the Repub- several appropriations conference re- signal a turning or a course correction lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ports that are available or soon will be that Congress should take to help pre- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. available. We expect to consider the vent the destruction we have seen on f foreign operations conference report the gulf coast in the last several weeks. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING today or tomorrow and will vote on the Mr. President, you are from Kansas, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE remaining bills as we can clear them and you know the power of tornadoes and Mother Nature. There is not any- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The for action in the Senate. Having said that, Mr. President, we thing we can do to prevent the fury of clerk will please read a communication nature, but we can minimize the dam- to the Senate from the President pro look forward to further progress on the Defense authorization bill during the age. We most certainly can use our in- tempore (Mr. STEVENS). telligence that God has given us and The legislative clerk read the fol- day. our talent that God has given us and lowing letter: I yield the floor. f the wisdom that He gives us to make U.S. SENATE, wise investments and smart choices PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME and try to set priorities that help us Washington, DC, November 9, 2005. To the Senate: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- make good choices for the people we Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, pore. Under the previous order, the represent so that we can minimize of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby leadership time is reserved. their pain and their suffering and we ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S12553 . VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:04 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.000 S09NOPT1 S12554 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2005 can maximize their hopes and their ular and wonderful, and I have visited the Baton Rouge port, to south Lou- dreams for the future. I believe that is many places, but I think anybody look- isiana, that port and the other ports, why we are here. I know I have talked ing at this chart can understand there our port system is larger than any port with you personally, Mr. President, is something special about Louisiana, system in the North American Con- about the reasons you came to the Sen- Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. tinent and one of the largest port sys- ate and I came to the Senate, and I What is special about it is we are the tems in the world. You would think think most of our colleagues share that Nation’s only energy coast. Most of the that we would pay attention to infra- view. domestic production comes off the structure such as this and invest wise- I wish to speak for a few minutes this shores, basically, of Texas, Louisiana, ly and take some of the money out of morning to remind the Nation and my Mississippi, and Alabama. Yes, we have this Treasury and invest in protection colleagues about the devastation and some important production in the West of the wetlands and in a strong and ro- the destruction that occurred only 10 in shallow plays of oil and gas, but we bust levee system. weeks ago in one of the greatest cities have virtually shut down drilling in But we have not done that. In fact, in the United States of America, and other parts of the country—in my opin- we have done the opposite. This chart that is the city of New Orleans and the ion, not on very good data, but none- is a startling summary. It is startling surrounding parishes. theless that is a choice that has been to me. It is hard to grasp. This is ‘‘Civil New Orleans is our largest city in made. Works Capital Investment as a Per- Louisiana, with 450,000 people, but it The point is that we have continued centage of Gross Domestic Product,’’ sits right next to Jefferson Parish of to supply this Nation at a time when it since 1929 to the year 2001. When we in 450,000, right next to St. Bernard parish needs oil and gas and needs energy pro- America, the America I grew up in, of about 60,000, and right next to duction. Louisiana has not sat down on talk about the great investments after Plaquemine, which is about 30,000. So the job, Texas has not sat down, Mis- the war, you can see what we are talk- it is a metropolitan area of close to 1.5 sissippi has not sat down, and Alabama ing about. You can see a Nation that million to 2 million people. has not sat down. But what has hap- was focused on its future. Why? Be- We have never in the history of the pened is this administration and some cause it was investing in roads and Nation seen destruction such as this. It parts of this Congress have sat down on bridges and levees and dams and infra- is unprecedented. It was not, we now the job of helping Louisiana and this structure necessary to lay down the know and as I said 2 days after the hur- energy coast protect itself from the framework for the greatest explosion of ricanes, the hurricanes that got us, kinds of storms that we have seen. entrepreneurship and scientific dis- Katrina and Rita—a double hit, one to How? By not investing in the wet- covery that before had not been seen in the southeastern part of our State, a lands restoration, which serves as a the world; almost unequaled in its category 4 and 5, and one to the south- natural barrier to the great city of New breadth and its scope.
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