U.S. State Secretaries of State

I seek recognition again for 1 minute simply to express my joy in seeing my friend and our illustrious, highly respected, and able colleague, Dianne Feinstein, back with us on the floor today. We are sorry that misfortune has for the…

Well, I will just add in the last moment here that we are almost at the complete mercy of the executive branch in situations such as that. The executive branch comes in and they want a bill or two added in the conference report, and I…

Yes, I agree with you that $5 million of the emergency funds will be used to implement the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program.

While the increases provided in the bill for base operating increases are essentially spoken for, I will certainly be mindful of the needs identified by the Senator should additional funding become available in conference.

Thank you, Senator Gorton. I, too, share the goal of ensuring that our National Wildlife Refuge System receives the funds it requires to preserve the critical habitat it was designed to protect. I concur with your position on the proposal…

Would it be the Senator's thought that the Department should support technologies which control emissions from coal use or increase the operating efficiency of coal-based power plants?

In closing, the Senate has already rejected this policy twice this year. I ask Members to join in driving a stake right through the heart of this ill-conceived, politically motivated vampire of an amendment that would suck the lifeblood…

In this case, this commission will report to the Congress, so we do not have to depend upon information from the Executive; we have our own.

Otherwise, the Congress is at the mercy of an administration--the administration--for information.

He said, ``we lay waste our powers.'' But I can assure you that the Senator from Tennessee doesn't lay awaste his powers. He is a busy man, and he serves his country and his State in a great fashion. I thank the Senator for his kind words.

I have found him always to be very courteous, very considerate, very cooperative; and he is this way with all Senators--not just with me but with all of our colleagues. I could not hope to have a better chairman than he. This is an…

Please tell your handsome grandson, who has been blessed with a multitude of talents, I am sure, that this year is not the beginning of the 21st century. Tell him it is not the beginning of the third millennium. This is the last year of…

Having been the Senate Democratic leader, I know that there comes a moment in time when leaders have to step in and act. Our two leaders did that at the critical moment. It is through their leadership that we have reached an understanding…

The amendment I am proposing would provide $8.5 million to the Department of Defense under the heading ``Military Construction, Defense-wide'' for classified activities, to remain available until expended. The entire amount would be…

I urge that the joint leadership insist on that regulation. Otherwise, I am going to insist on it. One Senator can insist on it. As I understand from what the Chair has said in his response to my parliamentary inquiry of the Chair, it is…

Given the current attrition rate of U-2 aircraft, approximately one a year, the situation will only worsen. Moreover, I understand that the research and development effort to develop unmanned aerial vehicles such as Global Hawk, while…

I am hopeful that my amendment will provide that analysis. It is my intent, and I hope the Chairman would agree, that the findings of this analysis should be provided to Congress in an unclassified report prior to next April, when the next…

I say to my colleagues, Mr. Warner and all those who supported the amendment, in the words of the Apostle Paul; we fought a good fight; we finished the course; we kept the faith. Thank you.

We would expect the President, Republican or Democrat, to come up here to make his case if he wants to continue, if he believes there is justification to continue the deployment. He should come here. That is what we want. We want the…

We would continue our air support, our logistical support, and our intelligence support. We would merely withdraw the ground troops, but we would only withdraw them in the event the President did not ask for authorization to continue the…

May I say to my friend from Delaware, I have a great deal of respect for him. He has had long experience on the Foreign Relations Committee. And he is my friend. I just have to differ with him on this occasion.

With all due respect, if we are going to limit half the question, we are not really dealing with the situation. Let me answer the Senator. If the Congress refuses to authorize, of course they are going to come out. But let us not assume…

Since the amendment, which was offered by Senator Warner and myself, was acted upon in the committee and has reached the floor, several Senators have indicated concern with respect to the certification process set forth in that amendment…

I close my statement today with these words from Henry Clay: The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. Clay made…