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I rise because of the process of this bill more than anything. As my colleagues heard earlier today, at about 4 o'clock we got this bill, 40 pounds, 4,000 pages, $500 billion, and nobody, nobody has read this bill. Maybe a few staff…
I have some good news, and I have some bad news. First the good news: We won. The Cold War, that is. Now the bad news: We may find the burden of winning that war as heavy as the burden of fighting it. I say that is the ``bad news,'' Mr…
in the last 15 years America has been invaded by what has been known as information technology. Like the body snatchers of ``Alien'' that penetrated deep into the human body, computers and communication technologies have penetrated deep…
the Senate is debating the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. In its current form, this bill is a careful compromise that has been months in the making. I had serious concerns about earlier versions of this legislation, but I am…
I rise to speak against the McCain second-degree amendment which would extend the moratorium on States taxing Internet transactions from 3 years to 4. The Finance Committee had knocked it back to 2 years. We thought that was a reasonable…
I want to very briefly reflect for a moment on the prayer just offered by the Rev. Robert Kem of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Omaha. It happens, Mr. President, that is the church where my family and I often are seen--more over the…
I rise to strongly encourage the President to sign the 1999 agriculture appropriations bill. This bill contains much needed assistance for farmers and ranchers who are facing severe drought, farmers trying to hold together their operations…
as to the income, the proposal in the conference report would be, approximately, for corn, 7 cents a bushel. That does not get the farmer much closer to either recovering the cost of production nor providing his banker confidence to lend…
again, not only are our grain farmers adversely affected, but cattle producers and cattle processors have been as well. We have met extensively with our ranchers and our feeders, and they say to us two things need to happen, and they need…
Foreign policy to Nebraskans and many Americans is not theory or some abstraction suspended between university classrooms, State Department corridors, or congressional hearing rooms. Foreign policy is the framework policy for America's…
I rise to comment on the situation in Iraq and to urge my colleagues to support the legislation introduced by the Majority Leader today. I spoke on Iraq on this floor last November and again in February, but Saddam Hussein is still in…
today the House continues a commitment made more than 40 years ago, that if you have the ability, but not the means, you can get a college education. I'm particularly pleased H.R. 6 will provide loan forgiveness to qualified teachers…
Mr. Speaker, when I got here 4 years ago, I always heard that we could not cut taxes because there was a deficit. And now we cannot cut taxes because there is a surplus. But we have not heard the same debate on the Y2K debate, or on…
building upon the success of last year's tax bill, we bring additional tax relief to farmers and ranchers. In addition to benefitting from general provisions increasing estate tax credits, the self-employed health insurance deduction…
I come to the floor, as the distinguished Senator from Kentucky said--as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee--to make the same commitment that the Senator from Kentucky just made, that our committee will not fund any…
agriculture needs to have the International Monetary Fund recharged so that our markets in Asia and elsewhere can once again become stable trading partners. Yet, we have heard some say Congress should not recharge the reserves because the…
first of all, in the spirit of the suggestion made by the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire and earlier, as well, by the Senator from Pennsylvania, I reached my conclusion as to what our law ought to be. This is unquestionably a…
shortly the House may help bring around a better future for American agriculture when we vote to extend fast-track negotiating authority. The best way to secure a better economic future for agriculture is to expand our export markets…