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I do not know for sure how to answer my friend and colleague from Nevada, except to say I do not think it would hurt the image of this place very much, in the public mind, if we would at least appear to be getting something done. That is…
I am proposing the President's 7-year, CBO certified balanced budget as a substitute to the Republican budget that is now before the Senate. Let us turn back the clock to a year ago. That is when my Republican colleagues pulled our leg on…
the President's budget is certified to be in balance by the Congressional Budget Office. Lest we forget what that is, the Congressional Budget Office is run and managed by a Republican appointee whom I supported to be the head of that…
Is it not true that in 1987 there existed such a thing as a very powerful and threatening Soviet Union and a Warsaw Pact that is not here today?
I simply say that there undoubtedly will be opposition to this Grassley-Exon amendment. I certainly do not think it is proper for me to be managing the time in opposition to an amendment that I am a cosponsor of. So I just alert Senators…
The Republican defense budget for 1997 is excessive in a time when we are desperately trying and seeking to balance the budget. This amendment would scale back the Republican overzealous $11.3 billion increase to the President's request…
my few remarks about my friend Bob Dole and his announcement today will be devoid of any political motivations whatsoever. Bob Dole has been a friend of mine ever since I came into the Senate. We have differed frequently on many issues…
I do not think it is particularly helpful for us to show on television charts that scare the devil out of the senior citizens of America. The Medicare fund is not going to go broke. Everybody knows it is not going to go broke because the…
The Republican majority may assert that premiums are not going up, but they cannot make the same claim about seniors' out-of-pocket expenses to pay their medical bills. The $123 billion reduction in the growth of the Medicare hospital…
Here we are, Mr. President, with yet another Republican budget. But after 18 months of extremism and demagoguery, after two shutdowns and a threat of a dozen more, I must say that I expected something better. True--and I congratulate and…
let me suggest that it appears to this veteran of 18 years in the U.S. Senate and, before that, 8 years as Governor of Nebraska, that this place is more off balance than any supposed representative body that I have ever witnessed. To put…
I want to compliment the work of the distinguished Senator from Alabama, Mr. Shelby, for securing the adoption of an amendment in the conference to modify the composition of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, which was…
I, like my other colleagues, want to praise both Senators Chafee and Breaux for keeping this group on task and hope that this proposal, this bipartisan proposal, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, will provide a foundation…
I rise to discuss the investigation which the Select Committee on Intelligence has undertaken at the majority leader's request regarding allegations that the administration may have secretly acquiesced in or facilitated Iranian arms…
I rise to support the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill, S. 1028. I believe it is a long-overdue change. As the Senator from Rhode Island and others have said already, it is regarded by some as very incremental. I regard it as one of those very…
the only point anyone has missed in this whole debate is the fact that the American people are frustrated and fed up. The last 30 years their taxes have been raised and raised and raised every time. This amendment today would reassure…
as we begin the fiscal year 1997 appropriations process, I'd like to call your attention to a small but important program to rural America--the Essential Air Service. EAS was created in the early 1980's to provide assistance to small…
first let me praise the conferees. Given the acrimony surrounding the debate, and given the lateness of the hour, it is entirely possible for conferees to look and produce nothing, or to produce a bill which the President would have had to…