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Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
I appreciate his hard work in bringing this amendment forward. New York's farmers have suffered this year--both from heavy rains in July and from damaging winter frosts. In particular, both apple trees and grape vines were destroyed in New…
this amendment would add $625 million to the high-threat urban area category of Homeland Security funding. This would bring the amount close to what the President asked in his budget where he asked for $1.5 billion for the high-threat…
I am going to be offering two amendments that I believe are necessary. This first amendment is intended to do what every expert who has looked at homeland security has recommended and advised us to do. Most recently, the 9/11 Commission…
In addition to my first amendment, which would provide the Secretary with the discretion to distribute money above the State minimum, above the so-called PATRIOT Act minimum on the basis of threat, Senator Schumer and I offer this…
I start by saying that as I understand the underlying legislation from the House, there is no language, either legislative or report, that addresses how the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security should distribute the funding…
I have also written to and spoken to both Chairman Warner and Ranking Member Levin from the Senate Committee on Armed Services, to ask for hearings on this issue when we return in September. However, I was alerted yesterday that there is a…
I salute the 9/11 Commission for an extraordinary job well done and an act of real patriotism. The men and one woman who served on this Commission were asked to do a very difficult task, to try to separate themselves from their prior…
In light of the pending release of the 9/11 Commission report, I wish to recognize the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission and their efforts to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the…
I believe there are many sincere positions being advocated on this floor on really all sides of this issue, because there are many sides. This is an incredibly important and quite solemn responsibility that we have before us. S.J. Res. 40…
Certainly, I agree with my good friend and my distinguished leader who makes some excellent points. Even more than that, as the Senator from Nevada knows so well, in the face of a disaster or another attack, all of this becomes…
I believe objectively -- I've been reading this for eight years, I've been watching this -- I think by far your biggest problem is bin Laden and al Qaeda.
One of the reasons he got away with it? Is because people like you only ask people like me the questions and gave him a complete free ride.
Everybody who reads it in the book will see that I was rebuking myself, not being flippant.
I feel terrible about it. She is a really intelligent person and a fundamentally good person.
I also wish to recognize the efforts of my friends from Virginia and Michigan on this bill and their willingness to engage in this colloquy in order to discuss the needs of New York's former nuclear workers and the necessity of providing…
I echo the request of my colleague from New York. I would also ask whether the Senators from Virginia and Michigan share our understanding that the Bond-Harkin amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2004 does not in any way…
They indicted innocent people because they wouldn't lie. And they exonerated people who committed crimes because they would lie.
I was involved -- in as I tried to say in the book, two great fights. A struggle with the Republicans over the future of the country, which I won. And the struggle with my old demons, which I lost.
We take a day a week a week, a whole day, every week for a year and did counseling.
I never considered resigning and fought tooth and nail efforts to impeach me, which I called 'an abuse of power.'
I think I did something for the worst possible reason, just because I could.
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