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Absolutely. We voted for a version the President can sign yesterday. He said he would sign it. I am very hopeful he will sign a bill. We can't go through the rest of this year without some resolution to this issue. But it is disappointing…
That was the whole reason we agreed to be as expeditious as possible. I am going to vote against final passage. I hope a number of my colleagues will join me in doing that. But that doesn't mean I do not want a bill. I have said repeatedly…
The deputy Democratic leader is right. There are absolutely as many references to that in the Record as any legislation I know of this year, especially from the other side. The Senator from Connecticut has been so diligent and so arduous…
Does the Senator not agree that the Winstar case was a contract violation case as opposed to the statutory change of regulation being proposed here?
I will continue to come in front of this body and advocate as strongly as I can that we address what is a very serious crisis in the rural sector of our economy in this country, and we can start today by adding this important amendment on…
Together, my colleagues on the committee have produced a proposal to give financial service companies new freedoms and new flexibility--without risking the financial well-being of our economy or of individuals. It is a balanced…
We have created a Rules Committee of one. I think it is unfortunate. They have a Rules Committee in the House. Constitutionally, the House was designed differently than we are. We don't need a Rules Committee in the Senate. Somebody made…
Over the last 20 years, Democrats may have used this procedure 5 times--5 times in 20 years. This procedure has been used five times in 1999. We will have a lot more to say about the extraordinary utilization of this concept of filling the…
Mr. Speaker, S. 388, a measure drafted and introduced by Senator Max Cleland, is a commonsense approach to applying the principle of preventive care when coping with natural disasters. S. 388 is substantially identical to H.R. 818, the…
I share the distinguished Majority Leader's enthusiasm for the potential of electronic commerce and his assessment of the role of the Internet Tax Freedom Act in the encouragement of that potential. I also appreciate the concerns he…
Today, we send our thoughts and our prayers to his wife, Ricki, who remains in the hospital, and to their three children, Lisa, Lori, and Paul.
Who can forget that resonant voice? Who can forget the call of the roll? Who can forget the authority with which he articulated each of our names? The answer is--no one.
The presence of Scott Bates in that chair and in our lives is something most of us have counted on each and every day.
The statement of managers contains language concerning the proposed HCFA rule that would defer to state law on the issue of physician supervision of nurse anesthetists. As I understand it, this is non-statutory language, and nothing in the…
Then it would be correct that HCFA could base its final decision on data or information that is already available, rather than conducting any new studies. My concern here is to ensure that HCFA is neither discouraged from nor delayed in…
Rural America is in a serious economic crisis. We have a price disaster and, for reasons beyond the producers' control, prices are at historically low levels today. The House took historic action to bring relief to farmers and ranchers by…
We are proposing this because many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have said that we do not have time to take up a careful consideration of HMO reform; we don't have the ability to consider a number of amendments that…
We simply want the opportunity to reflect the will of the majority of the Senate on an issue for which there is a moment of opportunity, from a historical perspective. This is our moment. If we fail in the next 6 weeks, we start all over…