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I rise with great pleasure in support of H.R. 782, the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000. Today's consideration of H.R. 782 does bring to the floor a very solid, very significant bipartisan legislative accomplishment that is 5 long…
If I could respond to say the Senator from New Mexico and any of my colleagues who are uncomfortable and wish I would not do this, if I had not done this the last 6 or 7 years, it is the fault of the Senator from New Mexico. You and…
I don't disagree, but to fix Medicare by saying there will not be copayments or deductibles, I don't think there is anybody on the floor who would argue that eliminating copayments and deductibles is the way to save money in health care…
Are we going to pay the Medigap insurance for every single Medicare beneficiary?
I rise as a family physician who has taken care of seniors on Medicare and worked with them as they tried unsuccessfully to stretch their limited funds to purchase the medications they needed. H.R. 4680 does not represent prescription…
This legislation would bring some 8,700 acres of land into Federal trust status for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians outside of the regulatory framework established for bringing Indian land into trust. It is important for the tribe…
The answer to that is a question back to the Senator from Virginia. If the President is asking for these levels, why would he insist on a prohibition of his going lower? Why is he so concerned he is going to go lower, if the President is…
But I say to the Senator, the question directly is, Do you think Congress should have passed a similar restriction on President Bush so he could not have done what he did in 1991?
May I ask the Senator a question? Do you think that Congress made a mistake not having a similar provision in place so we could have prevented President Bush from taking his action in 1991?
I am not implying a political motivation. I am rereading your answers to my questions yesterday. I saw reason I would support this amendment, and the reason I could have supported the amendment is, if you had said to me, yes, a thoughtful…
I am pleased to do that. The first question is, Did the Congress do the right thing in 1998 and 1999, and would we be doing the right thing today or in the future to have a statute that imposes upon a President a floor, a limitation, under…
The Senator's answer is yes, for a new President. He could do it as long as he is satisfied with the definition of ``careful review.'' He could do it prior to December of 2001. According to this amendment, it has to be submitted by 2001…
No. It says concurrent, which, as I read the language of this amendment, would cause me not to vote for it. It doesn't preclude President Clinton or Bush or Gore from saying we can finish that part of the review faster than the rest of the…
By effectively doing that, you are also saying that the current QDR, the current evaluation, is not valid; that the analysis that was done in 1997 by General Shalikashvili is not valid?
My guess is it is pretty close. Public Law 105-85 says: (a) Funding Limitation.--Funds available to the Department of Defense may not be obligated or expended during fiscal year 1998 for retiring or dismantling, or for preparing to retire…
That is an interpretation on which perhaps we should have a colloquy. If we can reach a conclusion that the President could do an effective review in short order, it may be, as I said, that I am going to declare victory and go home and…
That may be what you are endeavoring to do, but I am not sure your amendment does it. You are saying with your amendment that you want to make certain President Clinton cannot do it but future Presidents could.
I would be very surprised, if the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in 1997, reviewing the minimal deterrent level, did not reference that minimal deterrent level to the rest of the conventional forces. This is a conventional Army…