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Today represents another step in our efforts to end wasteful Government spending and end the practice of supporting criminals at the taxpayers expense. Too many individuals serving time in our Nation's prisons currently receive regular…

Apparently there is some Republican on this side of the aisle that has a problem. We are talking about the Rohypnol amendment?

as the Democrat leader on the Senate Budget Committee with a long and established record as a fiscal conservative, as Governor of my State longer than any other in its history, and proud of continuing that record for 18 years in the…

I urge Senators who would like to get out of here tomorrow to get to the floor and offer their amendments. There are no more than seven or eight amendments on either side. We have worked this down to a relatively small amount, and now all…

my view is that this is a reasonable amendment. I understand there is no budget cost.

I echo what the majority leader said. There are many evenings where we arrive here at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and then we start to do the sorts of things that we could have done at 5 o'clock in the evening. We know what needs to be…

So that the public can put this into perspective, there are 1.971 million Federal employees. Right now, there is an allowance for 3,400. I think we are at 2,800 now. This would take us down to 2,300. My concern with the Senator's amendment…

The one statement that the Senator from Wisconsin made that causes me to have some concern is the statement that I believe the Volcker Commission said that political appointees actually make it more difficult for the President to carry out…

I have the amendment now in front of me. I did not earlier. The $9.7 million comes from the delay required by the act in implementing field restructuring of the Internal Revenue Service. We have not passed that delay yet. That delay was…

as I understand it, half the funding would come from savings that would occur only if the reorganization proposed by the IRS would not occur, but the reorganization is supported by Treasury. The IRS actually has objected to the…

Although there are many important things the U.S. Senate is in the process of doing right now, I want to pause for just a moment, if I might, to bring to my colleagues attention that yesterday, history was made at the U.N. General…

first of all, all Members have made up their minds on this issue. So it is not a question of trying to persuade anybody one way or the other. It is trying to say to the American people, those of us who intend to vote for allowing Federal…

I hope that Members actually will vote to waive in this case. We are trying to move in the direction of managed care, particularly those of us who are trying to work both sides of the aisle and get some agreement on providing incentives in…

I have cosponsored and voted for this amendment in the past, but the fact this is a tax issue put on an appropriation bill has caused me some concern. The Senator from Alabama, the chairman, is quite right. In this instance, as a…

One particular transaction that was under examination was shipping all the income to the Dutch Antilles so they would not have to pay any capital gains tax. When the CEO of the company, the owner of the company, was asked the question…

It is far better for us to give the consumer more information than they need, far better for us to make certain that the consumer, the patient, is well-informed of what the choices are, as opposed to on the basis of being concerned they…

the chairman is quite right. Last year, during the conference deliberations--we had seen, throughout the last couple of years, a considerable accumulation of reports, specifically, the General Accounting Office evaluation of tax system…

the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] is proposed and sold as a simple measure, limited in scope, and based on common sense. It is none of these things. DOMA certainly cannot be called a simple measure when it proposes to have the Federal…