Honorable John Kerry
United States Senator, Massachusetts, Democrat
Senator Kerry was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1982 to 1984. He is Chairman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Foreign Relations Committee. He also chairs the Senate Hispanic Task Force and the Steering and Coordination Committee of the Senate Democratic Leadership. The following is from the March 12, 2002, Senate floor debate on amendments to S. 517, the National Laboratories Improvement Act.I have listened with great interest to the comments now of…