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This is an issue that, only as a consequence of the perseverance of the Senator from Michigan, is now beginning to surface and become visible to all of us. It is the sort of thing that illustrates why we need to be alert for abuse to a…

I appreciate very much the Senator's steadfast support of the effort to say we have to reduce spending because we believe it will be good for the economy. We believe it will give Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve some room to move. We…

Counsel has assured me that it will be here within 15 or 20 minutes now. They told me 15 or 20 minutes ago that it would be within a half an hour. I emphasize that our initial understanding was that the rescission bill would come up later…

It was prepared not just by my office but by a number of Senators who participated in the bipartisan effort.

All I am trying to do in making this proposal is make a suggestion to this task force that in the process of considering the recommendation, one of the things we consider is, rather than getting in this debate, should we have an offset…

I say to my friend from Hawaii out of respect for that particular consideration, this is merely a sense-of-the-Senate resolution.

I do not believe that we should look for offsets. I am not an advocate of offsetting in order to pay for this disaster. What we have is I think a situation where we are responding generously, and we ought, in my judgment, to pay for it…

The fact of the matter is, we are not going to collect enough money to pay the bills and, thus, what we have to do is sell Treasury bonds. We borrow from the already too small pool of savings, restricting the growth of the economy…

For the record, those other accounts decreased from last year. Those who are looking for sort of an easy way out of the entitlement program need to be alerted to that fact. There is unlikely to be an easy solution to this problem. That…

I assure my friends from California that I have no desire to slow down this supplemental bill. I have no opposition at all to the supplemental. What the Senator from Nevada said, I think, is quite accurate. This dire emergency supplemental…

Our amendment, on which we have worked over a number of months, makes 1994 rescissions and also reduces and eliminates a number of wasteful Federal programs for a 5-year deficit reduction of $43 billion. I first must say that I was very…

I hope that we will listen to the advice of our military leadership and never, ever commit American ground troops to be involved unilaterally or as a part of a United Nations effort to restore order there until and unless there is a…

As the health care debate heats up during the next several months, we need to be honest with the American people. I have heard several arguments lately that I believe are misleading and do not contribute to an honest debate on health care…

all the concerns that I had for a heavy-handed approach from the Federal Government have been resolved, I must say. I appreciate very much the Labor Committee's hard work on this, and the administration's hard work on this. I remain…

I do intend, after a considerable amount of deliberation on the subject, to vote for the Goals 2000 proposal of the President. I have some significant reservations but I spoke to a number of the cosponsors of the legislation and I spoke…

as we wrestle with this difficult decision today, trying to balance the interests of the taxpayers against the interests of Californians who so desperately need relief, I think we first need to recall the tremendous progress we have made…

I hope your recent comments about bringing a congressional reform bill to the floor this spring, truly reflect a commitment to jump starting our reform efforts. The recommendations from the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress…

we are making terrific progress on the deficit reduction front. Nineteen months ago we were accumulating deficit at the rate of about $331 billion a year. A month ago that figure was down to $251 billion, and OMB now tells us the deficit…