Bill Clinton

He brought out about 48 percent, which is almost what came out the first time they could vote.

I believe it is essential the Senate and our Congress be on record standing against hate and bias and discrimination, and particularly the kind of anti- Semitism that flowed at the meeting yesterday in Malaysia.

I strongly support the Dorgan amendment. I think it is the right thing for Iraq. I think it is the right thing for our country. It sets the right tone about how we are going to be dealing with this situation going forward. It lays down a…

I call on Congress to pass the requirement for a V-chip in TV sets.

Make no mistake about Clinton is playing a big role in this. And He loves it. He knows exactly what he's doing.

I think Clinton has a big hand in this.

I think for a Democratic president, but also for a Democratic president who will very clearly say that the Clinton years were better than the Bush years.

The administration plans to provide $124 million in fiscal year 2004 so that it can store a 6-month supply of childhood vaccines by 2006. I thank Senators Specter and Harkin for affirming the administration's commitment to prevent further…

NIEHS has provided $750,000 per center, for a total of $9 million per year to provide for direct and overhead costs that the centers incur. I hope that EPA will also continue to hold up its end of the funding to continue funding 12…

I determine that the further extension of the waiver authority granted by section 402 of the Act will substantially promote the objectives of section 402 of the Act.

Finally, Madam President, to the Senator from Maryland, is the Senator from Maryland aware that the rate at which people are exhausting their unemployment benefits, without finding a job in this jobless economy that we are currently…

Is it correct that in previous years with previous Presidents and Congresses, the concern about long-term unemployment has let us, as a nation, provide benefits for those people who have exhausted their source of income and cannot find a…

Would it surprise the Senator from Maryland that the number of parents who have been unemployed for 6 months or longer has increased 245 percent?

As I look at the proposal of the Senator from Massachusetts and the specific financial hardships of unemployment, is it the position of the Senator from Maryland that in the absence of extending unemployment benefits to those who have…

Is the Senator from Maryland aware that in the year 2000, there were approximately 176,000 long-term unemployed parents but that last month there were 607,000?

Is the Senator aware that in the very poll he cited, there is another finding? When Americans were asked if a law should be passed with no health exemption, 59 percent said no, it should not pass.

To respond, if I could, to the Senator from Pennsylvania, my great hope is that abortion becomes rarer and rarer. I would only add that during the 1990s, it did, and we were making great progress. These decisions, in my view, have no place…

Does the Senator's legislation make exceptions for serious life-threatening abnormalities or babies who are in such serious physical condition that they will not live outside the womb?

Well, I think the Senator from Pennsylvania is posing a false syllogism. Clearly, if people are told in a poll about the kinds of procedures that might be medically necessary out of context, I can certainly understand why the reaction…

I think it is extreme when the Government prescribes medical procedures that may--despite their not being ones that most of us would ever hope to have experienced by any loved one--be necessary in certain specific events, that were…

That is what I believe based on what I consider to be the slippery slope of the legislative language that you have carefully and cleverly crafted in this bill.

I heard the Senator from Massachusetts referencing the fact that, legal or illegal, this is not going to prevent abortions where they are necessary. My reading of the legislative language you have put forth, makes a very clear argument…

In fact, I have a copy of the September 25, 2002, letter written by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to the then-chairman of the Judiciary Committee announcing the decision to oppose the nomination.

I think what I judge is by what people say at the end of a conclusive discussion and what they determine based on their own consideration. Much of my concern is based on the Constitution and the role of this body--not on what people did or…

I am very well aware of the makeup of the Hispanic Caucus. I have worked with members of the Hispanic Caucus for many years. I think it is also fair to look at the geographical diversity and the experience base of these people who…