Trent Lott

I worked very hard, as I pointed out yesterday, on line-item veto legislation, and we got it done. The first time it was used I was very disappointed in the way that President Clinton used it. I thought the veto list had some serious…

As a Member of the Senate, I must say I never know how long I am going to speak. I will not speak that long, but I may get excited and go a little longer. My guess is not more than 15 minutes.

I don't want to do something crazy. I voted against every regulatory effort in this area for 30 years. But the American people are agitated about this. And there better be some restraint shown, or the consequences are not going to be…

There's something real fishy here.

I apologize for not having my microphone on earlier. We are trying to lock in the next three speakers. Senator Gregg will have the next 15 minutes, to be followed by the Senator from California for 15 minutes.

As acting manager, let me get some agreement on time so Senators can plan accordingly. I ask unanimous consent the following Senators be able to speak in this order: Senator Gregg for 15 minutes; Senator Feinstein to follow Senator Gregg…

The fact that we had a very aggressive program, try to keep up with what these people were doing, yes, I think this could be -- wind up being a winner and instead of a loser like some people might suspect.

Let me address a question to the distinguished chairman of the committee because I thought his remarks were very well done and answered a number of questions that have been put out in the discussion of this language in the media. But I…

Now we are back on the pending amendment, the Coburn amendment; is that correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thune). The first division.

The Senator started moving toward giving an example. So that I will fully understand exactly what the Senator is trying to get at here, can he give me a couple of examples? He has referred to military, for instance. I don't want to use any…

I commend and respond in the same sense and vein of the distinguished Senator from Connecticut. Before I do that, and talk further about our relationship and how the Rules Committee package came together, I would like to call on my…

All right. At the appropriate time I will move to table and will ask for the yeas and nays.