I rise today to support in the strongest possible way the Enzi-Bond amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill relating to ergonomics. This amendment will save businesses, small businesses particularly, and other employers, and…

my amendment affects every State in the Nation--the Bond-Bryan amendment to S. 2549. As co-chair of the Senate Guard Caucus, I firmly believe that this important piece of legislation is critical to meeting the number one priority of the…

I have been listening with a great deal of interest as my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have expressed their views on education. I particularly commend my neighbor and colleague from Kansas and my good friend from Idaho for their…

my amendment 2913 to the budget resolution expresses the sense of the Senate that no Federal funds may be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to subsidize or otherwise assist smoke shops or tobacco outlets. The…

the amendment says we should not fund any discount smoke shops. It doesn't say Indians.

Mr. President, I rise to express my strong support for the nomination of Alan Greenspan for his fourth term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. As has just been said, since Chairman Greenspan was originally…

I rise today because I feel very strongly about what we are considering. Today we in the Congress are being asked to consider our first statement on Indonesia since the country's elections last fall. Everyone is familiar with it. Everyone…

as we move into this next century, we face a great opportunity and great challenge. We need only to look backward to help contemplate the immense change and innovation that is in front of us. While positive change is to the long-term…

this amendment, as the manager has already stated, deals with a matter that was approved in the committee and was taken out by a procedural move. The amendment requires a study of mining in the Mark Twain National Forest in south-central…

my amendment provides the money for the research that the technical team says it needs, and it preserves the current rigorous environmental process which will take years to complete. If lead is discovered, if it is economically viable, and…

In the last couple days, a lot of people have been talking about the Medicare program and what we want it to look like as we think far ahead into the future. I'm glad this is happening, because this is an important debate. We do need to…

Let me suggest that while the Red Tape Reduction Act is hardly a household word, it is well worth commemorating, and it is extremely important to the small businesses in America who are oppressed by excessive Government regulation and…

I join Senator Domenici in thanking my colleague, Senator Ashcroft, for his very thoughtful comments on the budget. Those of us who work on the numbers sometimes get lost in the trees and fail to see the forest. But I thought the Senator…

one year ago today, the Birth Defects Prevention Act passed the House of Representatives, clearing its way for the President's signature. With this new funding, the Centers for Disease Control has implemented a national strategy, in…

Our goal is to ensure that the Treasury Department's Internal Revenue Service does not usurp the power to tax--a power solely vested in Congress by the U.S. Constitution. "The Stealth Tax Prevention Act" will ensure that the duly elected…

the purpose of this bill is simple and clear. The only thing the bill does is to repeal the highway sanction provisions in the Clean Air Act. I want to start by saying that I know what the so-called environmental community is going to say…

I thank the ranking member, once again. His work on this measure, as so many others, and the work of his staff has been essential to assuring a product that meets the needs of small business and also deals with legitimate concerns which…

the direct check for education doesn't block grant education funds; it doesn't affect title I or include vocational education, special education, or Eisenhower Professional Development; it just says send the money directly back to the…

I rise in strong support of Ed-Flex because it gives States and local officials in 12 States now greater freedom from regulation in the use of Federal education dollars. We need to expand that. This is moving in the right direction. It is…

On Friday, February 12, 1999, I voted to convict President William Jefferson Clinton on both counts of the Impeachment Articles brought by the United States House of Representatives charging that he committed perjury and obstruction of…

I have just a few brief thoughts on this budget that has been submitted to us. The President's budget says we are going to have about a $4 trillion surplus over the next 15 years. He has said, and we agree, that we should fix Social…

small businesses today face enormous burdens when it comes to taxes. Each year they pay a growing portion of their revenues on income, employment, and excise taxes. Yet even before they write the tax check, they spend more than 5% of their…

One final item I need to get in. Last year, we worked very hard for a Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century, or TEA 21. I led the fight with Chairman John Chafee and Chairman John Warner to make sure we put the trust back in trust…

As we start this 106th Congress, I think it is clear that education is going to be one of the top priorities we will address in this session of Congress. We are going to be working on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary…

I might add at this time that despite the fact that HCFA is responsible for this draconian system, HCFA has only offered technical assistance to address this crisis. HCFA must be held accountable for this insane and inequitable system and…