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this is about leadership. The balanced budget amendment to the Constitution is about the future of this country. It is about bold leadership. It is about stepping up to the challenges that face our Nation and what kind of country we are…
I do not intend to support this constitutional amendment. During previous debates on this issue, I have said that I believe that an amendment dictating a balanced budget does not belong in our Constitution but that the path to balance…
I rise today to, again, voice my strong support for Senate Joint Resolution 1, the balanced budget amendment. I believe this debate comes down to one question: Is the balanced budget amendment in the best interest of our children, their…
Americans unequivocally support the concept of term limits. Poll after poll will reflect this. But this past fall, voters across the country approved term limit amendments to their State constitutions, giving further credence to what we…
the senior Senator from Maine, Bill Cohen, is among those Senators who have decided to not seek another term in service to their country. Senator Cohen and I both arrived in the Senate in January 1979 and we have served together on the…
It has been a sheer pleasure to serve for the past 18 years with Bennett Johnston. Since the time I came to the U.S. Senate in 1979, I have always admired Bennett's determination and rugged individualism. Bennett Johnston possesses many of…
I consider Senator Mark Hatfield among this pantheon of accomplished public servants. While some may speak highly of Senator Hatfield for his length of service to Oregon and the Nation as a whole, I have been most impressed by the strength…
when the Senate concludes its business this year and adjourns the 104th Congress, we will be bidding farewell to one of the most respected and accomplished Senators this institution has known. Senator Claiborne Pell's decision to retire…
I rise to salute the service of Senator Howell Heflin and give the Senator and his family best wishes. Senator Heflin and I came to the U.S. Senate together and we will be leaving this grand institution together. Over the years I have not…
I want to thank very much my close and dear friend, Senator Byrd, for his kind remarks about this Senator as printed in yesterday's Record. I think we all recognize what a unique experience we have had here in the U.S. Senate, serving with…
This Nation will likely lose the most important Senator of all with regard to national security and foreign policy when my colleague Sam Nunn departs this body. I believe Senator Nunn is one of the greatest leaders of the current era. He…
I am very concerned that in Nebraska and its neighboring States, section 8 projects for the elderly will be disadvantaged under the language in the conference report, unless a special effort is made to preserve them. Fair market rents in…
the provision in this legislation with respect to cost-benefit analysis is unique to the Office of Pipeline Safety. It is not my intent, nor was it ever suggested by any member of the committee that the standard we use in this bill, be…
I appreciate that very, very much. The fact that the Senator has the courage to stand up on the floor of the U.S. Senate and make such an obvious, commonsense argument encourages me that we are beginning to look at some of the real…
I was very much interested to see how a judge resented the fact that a U.S. Senator called him asking the reasons for the decision that the judge had rendered. That takes me to the place that, while I recognize the courts as the legitimate…
I have not seen the information that the Senator from North Dakota has. I guess I am specifically asking whether or not there were other organizations who hired attorneys or had attorneys there representing those who brought the action.
last week, I delivered the first of a number of speeches on the fiscal follies of the Dole economic plan. I gave a brief history of voodoo economics in the Reagan-Bush years, its failure, and the economic carnage it left in its wake. I…
this year's bill once again attempts to help the intelligence community make the transition to a post-cold-war world where the looming military threat of the Soviet Union has been replaced by a more subtle--but increasingly serious--array…