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I simply point out that this amendment will cost over $33 billion and does not say how we will pay for it. Another way of saying that is that this is a political amendment to make a political statement without saying how we are going to…
What the amendment does, simply said, is we can do nothing in these considerations that will further weaken or hurt the trust fund. That is basically what it does. The amendment of the Senator from Texas hurts the solvency of the fund…
I noted with interest the comment the Senator from Texas made. We just debated it a day or so ago. The provisions of the 1993 act that have been roundly criticized and are again being criticized now, raised taxes on only the top 13…
The same thing was said by the Office of Management and Budget director under President Reagan. His name was David Stockman, and he admitted publicly--and I believe wrote in a book--that it was a sham all the way through. In fact, he used…
How interesting it is that the debate has shifted from the very legitimate discussion that we were having here with regard to the faulty ruling of the Chair to a charge that Democrats are trying to block consideration of income tax…
The Senator and I have appealed over and over again to people to come to the floor or at least call us and tell us they are not going to offer the amendments. We have heard nothing from our side of the aisle on that. If the Senator has…
time and time again, we are proving the point that the theory behind the ruling of the Chair, as we understand it, which is totally faulty, has been destroyed --that theory has been destroyed completely--by the fact that we have proven…
Before the Senator from North Dakota leaves, may I ask a question of the Senator from North Dakota? We heard a great deal and we have had a lot of criticism from that side of the aisle on the President's budget with the idea that it has a…
Does the consumer price index have an upward bias? The author believes that, while substitution and formula biases exist, together they might amount to 0.3 to 0.5 percentage points. Other alleged causes of bias are not considered…
Bill Clinton and the Washington liberal groups are leading a double life. They claim that they want to end welfare as we know it, yet fight it and veto every plan we put forward. They say they want to increase the earnings of working…
I rise to the floor today to support the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge boundary revision. The proposed bill would remove about 2,470 acres of land from the refuge and transfer it to the Bureau of Reclamation. The U.S. Fish and…
more than a third of the savings from a CPI adjustment suggested here would come from families with annual incomes under $30,000 per year. Ratchet it up just a little bit and 56 percent of the burden falls on families with incomes under…
I cannot support a broad CPI adjustment that does nothing to protect the very neediest. I also point my colleagues to the fact that those areas where a firm scientific consensus exists about CPI bias have already been incorporated into the…
it seems to me, if I heard the leader of the committee correctly, that he has essentially all but endorsed the bipartisan commission with the one exception of Social Security. And if we are that close maybe--just maybe--we can solve the…
I agree with Chairman Domenici that possibly out of these discussions tonight and the general tenor of the responses on each side lead me to also agree that we can have a breakthrough. I would simply say that I happen to feel that the…
I cannot say that I look forward to tapping on Senator Simpson's box in 2030. But I am enthusiastic about cosponsoring this resolution with him. One of the most difficult things to learn in life is that you are wrong. An awful lot of…
I am not saying this is a bad idea per se. I say two things. First, I do not believe that we should make such a dramatic change without hearings or discussions. I have said before, there are some problems with sense-of-the-Senate…
If we prohibit them, what would be the result? Frankly, I do not think very much, because Senators would, as a substitute, offer small changes in dollars in a regular amendment with some very long statements of the purpose. There is no…