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copper is a substance that at certain levels will cause gastrointestinal problems. That is the issue here. Unlike lead, it is a different sort of public health problem. Again, it is an essential element. Understand, that the estimated…
I appreciate what will happen tomorrow is, there will be 2 minutes equally divided and Senator Chafee and Senator Baucus will come down here and they will say, ``We don't necessarily disagree with you but we have a letter from the EPA and…
while it is true that the packers and many of the processing industry do not like the idea of having to disclose prices and bidding, you would be hard-pressed to find a single rancher or cattle feeder in the United States of America who…
that letter comes on behalf of people who are in the packing industry. I just tell colleagues that if you have ranchers or feed lot operators in your State, they support the change. There is a division in this particular association that…
I rise to support Senator Lugar's amendment. I am an original cosponsor of that amendment. I am an original cosponsor of the Lugar amendment because I believe the Lugar amendment applies some common sense and some relevancy to the issue of…
This issue really is about children, though, and parental consent and the parents having some say. If a child is not going to tell his or her parent about a possible abortion that they want to seek, they are not going to seek the parents'…
I do support the use of sanctions as a foreign policy tool, but I believe that the USDA has used them all too frequently. The bill we are considering today would allow USDA to guarantee U.S. wheat sales to Pakistan and to India. Without…
I wish to first congratulate the bipartisan leadership in this body, the leadership of our two leaders, Senator Lott and Senator Daschle, for addressing this issue and addressing the more encompassing issue of sanctions in total. I want to…
I appreciate his early support, not just of this piece of legislation, but his early support for changing laws giving taxpayers more rights when dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. This is just a continuation of Taxpayer Bill of…
Mr. President, I believe this piece of legislation goes to the heart of our capacity to maintain government of, by and for the people. Our republican form of government is at risk if people feel they are not getting a fair shake with this…
here we go again. It seems like every year we have to rise and defend our American sugar producers. I think we need to realize that the sugar program is not corporate welfare. Beets and cane are grown in 17 different States in these United…
I will connect what I say here about this piece of legislation with Father's Day. I had the occasion, during our last recess, to take my 23-year-old son and my 21-year-old daughter to Omaha Beach. I was in the audience on the 6th of June…
Mr. President, Senator Roberts has touched upon some of the most important core issues in the debate that we have had over the last 4 weeks on the tobacco bill. I would find it interesting again to recite what has really happened in the…
I would like to report on a comment made this morning by a senior World Bank official warning of a looming global recession. He says, ``We are probably at the end of the first cycle of a crisis and we are entering into a deep recession…
I want to take this body on a quick trip to the other part of the world to talk very briefly about what is happening in Southeast Asia, Japan, China, Russia, and how it is impacting and affecting all of us in this country, how it will…
Mr. Chairman, if we mentioned comp time or flex time or telecommuting or inside sales personnel to people back 20 or 30 years ago, we probably would have gotten a very, very strange look. But these terms today, they are a reality. This is…
I returned Sunday night from a 9-day trip to Turkey and central Asia. I would like to share with this body and my colleagues some observations from that trip and of the last year and a half. There are dangerous and serious events and…
I stand today to join Chairman Shelby in presenting the nomination of Ms. Joan Dempsey to be Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management. The President has chosen well. In my view, there is no one in the country more…