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J. Exon
@jexon· Democratic · NE· Sep 19, 1996

I was very much interested to see how a judge resented the fact that a U.S. Senator called him asking the reasons for the decision that the judge had rendered. That takes me to the place that, while I recognize the courts as the legitimate…

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J. Exon
@jexon· Democratic · NE· Sep 19, 1996

I have not seen the information that the Senator from North Dakota has. I guess I am specifically asking whether or not there were other organizations who hired attorneys or had attorneys there representing those who brought the action.

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J. Exon
@jexon· Democratic · NE· Sep 17, 1996

last week, I delivered the first of a number of speeches on the fiscal follies of the Dole economic plan. I gave a brief history of voodoo economics in the Reagan-Bush years, its failure, and the economic carnage it left in its wake. I…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 17, 1996

this year's bill once again attempts to help the intelligence community make the transition to a post-cold-war world where the looming military threat of the Soviet Union has been replaced by a more subtle--but increasingly serious--array…

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Jon L. Christensen
@jonlchristensen· NE· Sep 17, 1996

Today represents another step in our efforts to end wasteful Government spending and end the practice of supporting criminals at the taxpayers expense. Too many individuals serving time in our Nation's prisons currently receive regular…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

Apparently there is some Republican on this side of the aisle that has a problem. We are talking about the Rohypnol amendment?

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J. Exon
@jexon· Democratic · NE· Sep 12, 1996

as the Democrat leader on the Senate Budget Committee with a long and established record as a fiscal conservative, as Governor of my State longer than any other in its history, and proud of continuing that record for 18 years in the…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

I urge Senators who would like to get out of here tomorrow to get to the floor and offer their amendments. There are no more than seven or eight amendments on either side. We have worked this down to a relatively small amount, and now all…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

my view is that this is a reasonable amendment. I understand there is no budget cost.

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

I echo what the majority leader said. There are many evenings where we arrive here at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and then we start to do the sorts of things that we could have done at 5 o'clock in the evening. We know what needs to be…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

So that the public can put this into perspective, there are 1.971 million Federal employees. Right now, there is an allowance for 3,400. I think we are at 2,800 now. This would take us down to 2,300. My concern with the Senator's amendment…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

The one statement that the Senator from Wisconsin made that causes me to have some concern is the statement that I believe the Volcker Commission said that political appointees actually make it more difficult for the President to carry out…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

I have the amendment now in front of me. I did not earlier. The $9.7 million comes from the delay required by the act in implementing field restructuring of the Internal Revenue Service. We have not passed that delay yet. That delay was…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 12, 1996

as I understand it, half the funding would come from savings that would occur only if the reorganization proposed by the IRS would not occur, but the reorganization is supported by Treasury. The IRS actually has objected to the…

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J. Exon
@jexon· Democratic · NE· Sep 11, 1996

Although there are many important things the U.S. Senate is in the process of doing right now, I want to pause for just a moment, if I might, to bring to my colleagues attention that yesterday, history was made at the U.N. General…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 11, 1996

first of all, all Members have made up their minds on this issue. So it is not a question of trying to persuade anybody one way or the other. It is trying to say to the American people, those of us who intend to vote for allowing Federal…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 11, 1996

I hope that Members actually will vote to waive in this case. We are trying to move in the direction of managed care, particularly those of us who are trying to work both sides of the aisle and get some agreement on providing incentives in…

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Bob Kerrey
@bobkerrey· NE· Sep 11, 1996

I have cosponsored and voted for this amendment in the past, but the fact this is a tax issue put on an appropriation bill has caused me some concern. The Senator from Alabama, the chairman, is quite right. In this instance, as a…

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