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Since I became chairman of the Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee last year, the subcommittee has conducted two hearings on recruiting. This has been a real eye opener to me, to listen to these front-line military recruiters about the…
I believe we have spent close to a week--perhaps more than a week-- talking about education without having yet taken a single vote on an amendment. I believe this issue is of such great importance that while we do not want to shortchange…
I want to thank particularly the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) for doing an excellent job on shepherding this legislation through, as well as the chairman of our committee. Yesterday I had a conversation in my office with a…
I rise today with Senators Dodd, Crapo, Kennedy, Inhofe, Feinstein, Craig, Murray, Spector, Edwards, Mikulski, Helms, Biden, and Kerry to introduce a Senate Resolution declaring May 13-20, ``National Biotechnology Week.'' There have been…
I applaud Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas for her leadership and for her aggressive work on this amendment, also Senator Bob Graham of the State of Florida, who has done such great work. This amendment extends for fiscal year 2002…
The reality is farmers are hurting right now. They need a signal from this Senate and this Congress that we are going to address the crisis that agriculture is experiencing. In my home State of Arkansas, 25 percent of our economy is…
I rise in support of S. 420, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001, and I commend Senators Grassley, Hatch, and Sessions for their hard work, dedication, and perseverence. As a result of their efforts, a sense of balance and fairness has been…
I commend the passion of my colleague from Connecticut. I have the utmost respect and admiration for him. I know how strongly he feels about this. I know in his comments he was not in any way insinuating those of us who take a different…
I want to strongly commend the President for coming out with a well-conceived tax program that will provide broad-based tax relief for the American people; for every American taxpayer will experience relief from the onerous burden placed…
As Congress considers President Bush's comprehensive tax relief plan in the coming weeks, I sincerely hope that we will examine ways to make the tax system more equitable to small business. As we look at the economic indicators, it is…
I also applaud President Bush for his leadership on the tax relief issue. He has come forward with a plan that I think will have the support of the American people and will provide them much needed relief. Senator Enzi very correctly…
I rise to take a few minutes to recognize the contributions of a patriot, a leader, and a good friend of this institution who has departed Government service to return to life as a private citizen. During, his 4-year tenure as Under…
I commend my colleague from Wyoming for his very strong, clear, and forceful statement supporting tax relief for the American people. It was well reasoned. I applaud him for making his statement and associate myself with it.
I rise today to address a growing concern in this Nation, and that is the concern that the privacy of Americans is under attack. With the explosion of the Internet, changes in financial and medical laws and an increasingly intrusive…
I want to take just 1 minute to say a word of commendation for my colleague, John Ashcroft. As the Judiciary Committee, at this very hour, prepares to meet for a vote on his confirmation, I say that this man of honor and integrity has gone…
I rise to enthusiastically applaud George W. Bush's community and faith-based initiative which he announced yesterday and is emphasizing and talking about this week. It is a very exciting prospect that we have a President who recognizes…
I applaud President Bush for his commitment to education in unveiling a very serious and comprehensive education reform program today. It is an education package that, if enacted in its entirety, I believe, will ensure that no child in…
we should rejoice today in the beginning of the 107th Congress. We have an opportunity to lead and to govern; and in that, we should take pride in that responsibility. I noted that friends from the other side of the aisle indicated they…
S. 2413, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2000, is identical to its House counterpart H.R. 4033, which passed the House on January 26, 2000, by a margin of 413-3. This legislation will reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest…
H.R. 3048, the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000 passed the House by voice vote on June 26 of this year. The bill was introduced by the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum), to clarify…
I rise to commend the work of this Congress in passing H.R. 1800, the 'Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000.'
I rise in support of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and I want to commend my colleagues Senator Brownback and Senator Wellstone for their hard work on this legislation. Inge had hoped for a better life when she left her home in…
one thing I believe we agree on is that we want to go in the same direction in protecting privacy. The bottom line here is that, for whatever reason, the bill of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) is not moving through the…
The fact is, while Senator Durbin made that comment, every State does have a Medicaid program that offers prescription drugs today. In addition, they have State employee drug programs already in existence. These programs are separate from…
when I was elected to the House of Representatives back in 1992, I spent 2 years serving in the minority-- 2 years; in 1993 and 1994--before the Republican victories in the 1994 elections brought about the first Republican majority in the…
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