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We have been bamboozled by the statements that an increase is a decrease only in the Nation's Capital. What we are talking about here are not increases in education funding, net, or increases in Medicare funding, net. What we are talking…
we are on the final leg of this Republican budget's journey, and it is a fruitless one. It does not lead our Nation to any new horizons. It blazes no new paths. It offers no compromise to break the budget deadlock. This Republican budget…
I just want to say that I was pleased to be here and to hear that excellent speech that Senator Dole gave as his farewell address in the U.S. Senate. It was sad in lots of ways, and yet it was so reassuring to see someone of the integrity…
Mr. speaker, Medicare is going broke. The latest trustee's report confirms what many of us have been saying for some time now: that Medicare is going broke even faster than predicted. The Medicare trust fund lost money last year for the…
I simply say that I wish everybody who serves in Congress had his head screwed on as correctly as does the Senator from South Carolina. During all of this rancorous debate about who is to blame, I am reminded once again of that time--it…
Mr. President, I am very disappointed by this constitutional balanced budget amendment charade staged by the majority. My colleagues know that I am a staunch and dogged supporter of a balanced Federal budget and a balanced budget amendment…
the Dole star wars bill the Senate is debating is a reckless and expensive attempt to recreate the nostalgia of the cold war through the regrettable and unwarranted use of fear and fabrication. Over the last several years, the majority has…
Why would a terrorist group or rogue nation spend 15 or 20 years and billions of dollars to manufacture a rudimentary nuclear warhead and long-range ballistic missile delivery system which would lead a noticeable trail from where it was…
the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee's bill is a slap in the face to rural America. Last week the subcommittee approved a bill that would provide $581 million less in budget authority for agriculture programs for fiscal year…
Yes, this is my last budget resolution forever. Sometimes I wonder if the chairman of the committee might like to say the same without giving up the leadership of the organization. But it has been a pleasure for 18 years to work with Pete…
as we conclude debate, I cannot help but be struck by the futility of this Republican budget. It is a tragic repeat of last year's Republican budget fiasco. It is a fool's errand twice over. A year ago, many of us stood on the Senate floor…
It might be due to the fact that a clear majority of the American people do not support opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas exploration. It appears to me that the Republicans are trying to find a clever way to…
Yes, I do believe that the Senator from Montana is correct in making that assumption. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a limited amount of mandatory programs under its jurisdiction to target for savings as part of a…
Yes, I do find that strange. The committee report for last year's budget resolution cited ANWR as the major mandatory savings assumption for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. indeed, it's inclusion in the final reconciliation…
The Senator from Montana is correct. in fact, this billion dollars of savings amounts to almost 75 percent of the required savings the Energy and Natural Resources must produce in order to comply with the Republican budget resolution.
I do not expect to persuade a majority, Mr. President. This is an amendment that will have a tremendous impact on the future budget outlays and appropriations of this Congress. As everybody that has examined the facts knows, unless we make…
I wanted to call the attention of the Senate to a very interesting letter I just received from Charlie Brogan, president of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association, from Lexington, NE. He writes and says: I thought about you this week when…
The Democrat leader would have properly talked to me. He did not. I will talk to him about that.