Asa Hutchinson

I will make a few closing remarks here to my colleagues. Tomorrow's debate I believe is critically important for the Nation. I would like to think as a result of this debate we are going to pass out of this House a legislative proposal…

I believe that this is a cause still worth fighting for, that there is a consensus still yet to be maintained and to be gained and I hope that we can do that this Congress; whether it is this vote tomorrow or whether it is later on. The…

I rise to strongly speak against the Bryan-Wyden amendment for a variety of reasons but, most importantly, because it simply does not support healthy and sustainable national forests. Many Senators, I suspect, will speak today claiming…

if I understand the point the gentleman is making, if you have an incumbent, a United States Congressman who has $1 million in his war chest, and he is very, very difficult to compete with financially and you have a challenger, he can…

the Bipartisan Campaign Integrity Act does the most important thing, it addresses the enormous abuse in our system, which is to ban soft money to our national parties. This is where our Federal candidates, our Federal officers are going…

I rise today to address for a few minutes the tax relief package that the Senate passed before the August recess. I had the opportunity during the August recess to travel much of Arkansas. I was in 27 counties in Arkansas in about a month…

I believe that this happens to be about issues of law enforcement, about issues of safety, and about issues of justice. And as a former federal prosecutor, I look at it from that context. I am concerned about the President and his…

This bill will extend the Federal Aviation Administration's, FAA, Airport Improvement Program, AIP, for sixty days. It is critical that Congress complete the authorization for this program for this fiscal year. Otherwise, the FAA will be…

first of all, I commend the distinguished Senator from Mississippi for the introduction of this resolution. I associate myself with his remarks. I note for the Record, among the biographical comments that Senator Cochran made concerning…

I believe, in taking the step we did today, in lowering the tax burden upon the American people from 21 percent of GDP to 20 percent of the gross domestic product, we have taken a modest but a very important step in providing relief to all…

What we are doing in this amendment, if it is passed, it actually guts existing money laundering laws. It would set the drug war back by some estimates that I suspect is true, maybe 20 years. What it really would do would be to allow drug…

I want to note the support of the Department of Defense for the basic concept articulated by the gentleman from Alabama. Current law compels the Department of Defense to maintain these properties at enormous cost while expending…

I believe that bankruptcy is important in America and that we should not do anything to destroy that system which was really a hallmark of our country, where people came to this country getting away from debtor's prison, moving to the…

I thank the Chair. This is a very straightforward amendment that simply says that before China can be admitted to the World Trade Organization, there will have to be a joint resolution passed by the Congress supporting that accession of…

It seems to me to be a difficult proposition to come to the floor of the Senate and argue that we should not have a debate and to argue we should not have a vote on the admission of China to the World Trade Organization. Yet that is the…

I hope we will use that leverage for human rights and nuclear nonproliferation across the board. But certainly there are trade issues that are critically important. We have almost a $60 billion deficit with China. They have great barriers…

I am dismayed that a bill that has the kind of bipartisan support-- support in this Chamber, support across the country among educators, support among our Nation's Governors--would have been held up as long as this has been held up and…

The five amendments that have been proposed add billions and billions of dollars in costs when the first obligation, the commitment the Senator speaks of, has already been made to the educators in IDEA, in providing the full funding for…

I commend the Senator from Minnesota. I don't know of a Senator who has been more consistent, more persistent, more determined, more resolute in trying to reduce the tax burden under which the American people labor, trying to simplify this…

I want to publicly thank, on behalf of Senator Wellstone and myself, our staffs: On Senator Wellstone's staff, Charlotte Oldham Moore and John Bradshaw, for their very persistent and hard work on this issue; on my staff, Samuel Chang, for…

One of the individuals whose name has been mentioned several times by Senator Mack, by myself, Senator Wellstone, is Wei Jingsheng, truly one of the courageous heroes of our generation. And I, too, am glad to be able to call Wei Jingsheng…

I suggest that there are a couple of things that have happened just recently which underscore the value and the importance of the time we are spending on the Senate floor this morning and the vote on this resolution. Mr. President, just…

This resolution urges the Administration to take the necessary steps to introduce and pass a resolution criticizing the People's Republic of China for its human rights abuses in China and Tibet at this year's meeting of the United Nations…

We are nearing one of the most important votes most of us will ever cast. As an Arkansan, the impeachment process has been long and difficult. President Clinton is a dominating political influence in Arkansas and still immensely popular in…

It is important to address that issue of censure. We discussed this in the committee and there were numerous constitutional experts that addressed this. Stephen Presser, professor of legal history at Northwestern University School of Law…