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I call my colleagues' attention to the fact that this is a good faith effort that began last year during the budget reconciliation debate. Those of us who voted for it can now call attention to the significant deficit reduction that has…
But does the Senator believe that 11 to 18 Members who have worked since last August to prepare this amendment, hundreds of hours in meetings in good faith, trying to come to an agreement, not with any effort to hide from anyone what we…
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…
I say to the Senator, indeed the double accounting problem is one we footnoted. The Senator from Colorado dealt with that earlier. We included it only because it has not been enacted into law. We were not trying to hide anything from…
I must say, as I said earlier, I am not standing over here full of optimism that this amendment is going to be agreed to. It is highly unlikely it is going to be agreed to. There are all kinds of procedural problems and so forth going to…
Proposal 26: Recapture Federal construction project funds from projects which have not commenced within 24 months of appropriations. Any funds appropriated for a Federal construction project that have not been obligated through a binding…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…