I think we have just heard a perfect prescription and description of what is in the Budget Committee's resolution; that is, the solution is Government: Government can do it all. The private sector cannot handle it. Let the Government move…

I think all the answers that the distinguished Senator from Georgia received from the members of the Budget Committee, the Senator from Tennessee and the Senator from New Mexico, are accurate. First of all, though, I do want to speak on…

I do want to just put out a word of caution that I know that what the Senator is trying to do is, in effect, to save the $20 billion proposed offset in the Domenici amendment, which has been spoken against now by the distinguished chairman…

gee, this sounds awfully familiar. I have heard it year after year after year. ``Oh, we can't cut that. Oh, we can't cut that. We'll get it later. You can't take it from here. We are going to use it somewhere else.'' We go through this…

a summary of this amendment is this: It maintains the $26 billion in discretionary outlay cuts contained in the Exon-Grassley amendment that was added to the budget resolution in the Senate Budget Committee last week. But it specifies that…

Today as we begin debate on the budget resolution for the next fiscal year, I think it is appropriate that we also think at this time about the need for budget process reform. Twenty years ago, we passed the Congressional Budget and…

about 3 weeks ago, with a lot of press fanfare, we received the President's budget. As a member of the Senate Budget Committee I was very interested in getting the details of this budget that was going to reduce the deficit and change…

Almighty God, we ask that You bless our parents, teachers, and country throughout this day. In Your name we pray. Amen. That was the prayer of the students read over the public address system in Jackson, MS, at Wingfield High School. That…

My amendment would say very simply that, if a country in the United Nations does not support the United States position at least 25 percent of the time--I repeat, only 25 percent of the time, not 30, not 40, not 50, not 60--only 25 percent…

I believe actually of the $190 million that would have been affected only $17.28 million come under the category of the IMET, International Military Education and Training. I understand what the Senator is saying, but I still think that it…

I find it difficult to defend spending American tax dollars on nations that block our initiatives and vote to oppose our values in the United Nations. ... if people really knew that we were giving their taxpayer dollars to nations that…

my amendment would say that for those countries which do not support the United States at least 25 percent of the time, they would lose their military and security assistance. It is not applicable to humanitarian or developmental aid; it…