I rise to take a few moments to explain why I will oppose S. 27 on final passage. At the outset, however, I want to congratulate my colleague John McCain for bringing this matter to a successful conclusion in the Senate. He has fought long…

I rise to speak today about Dale Earnhardt. During this past week, millions of racing fans all around the country have been mourning the death of this stock car great. He was killed on the last turn of the last lap of the prestigious…

I was surprised to read the headlines in the paper this morning--and I actually saw a little bit of this on the news last night--that billionaires in the United States actually support the estate tax and oppose President Bush's plan to…

One of the threats that has received a lot of attention in recent weeks on which I want to focus today is the threat of an attack by an adversary delivering a weapon of mass destruction via missile. Of course, there are other ways of…

today, Senators Breaux, Gramm, Lincoln, and Bayh and I are introducing the Estate Tax Elimination Act, a bill to replace the federal estate tax with a tax on capital gains earned from inherited assets due when those assets are sold. This…

In this letter he notes that Gale Norton has in the past exhibited an understanding of the needs of Native Americans. She worked on one of the settlements when she was attorney general of Colorado that involved water and other issues…

I join my colleague, Senator Thomas, in supporting the nomination of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior. She will, indeed, provide the kind of consultation that has been lacking in this past administration on important issues such as…

I rise briefly to discuss the nomination of another Cabinet official, the Attorney General, John Ashcroft. Hopefully, we will be able, on the Judiciary Committee, to have the vote on Attorney General designate Ashcroft tomorrow. We hope to…

I hope, along with the majority leader, we can get quickly to the consideration of this important legislation because, as he correctly noted, once we begin debate on this bill and have an opportunity to vote on it, it is going to receive…

John Chafee was a gentleman with every quality that term connotes. He always treated everyone with the utmost respect. He was unfailingly courteous to everyone. I never heard him utter a bad word about anyone. He took his job very…

Fine. I will take just another minute and a half of the 2 minutes of which I asked. Just to summarize the point here, there are a lot of good ideas that come out of Washington, DC. We provide money for them. But we should not presume that…

we should step back from the rhetoric for a moment and calmly ask the question: What is this debate all about? It is about two simple ideas. They are competing ideas, and neither one is necessarily a bad idea. The question is which one is…

Sandra Day O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930, the first of three children of Harry A. Day and Ada Mae Wilkey Day. After attending secondary school in El Paso, she pursued her undergraduate education at Stanford University. Justice…

I have had the pleasure of attending the subcommittee meeting this morning, and I heard witnesses who are victims of the terrorists who were given clemency. It was a heartbreaking experience, frankly, because at the conclusion of it one…

I just want to talk for a brief bit of time on the Interior appropriations bill and on some matters that are very important to people throughout this country, particularly in the West. But let me begin by making a comment about what the…

one of the appropriations bills we have yet to act upon is the Interior appropriations bill, as Senator Thomas pointed out. He comes from the State of Wyoming. I come from the State of Arizona. Practically every State west of the…

I begin today by thanking Senator Roth, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, for recognizing that there is a place for estate-tax relief in this bill. The measure reported by the Finance Committee includes a variety of changes: a…

I misspoke and understated the nature of the problem and, therefore, the significance of what Senator Campbell was able to accomplish. I think in the way I stated it, I said there were 617 additional inspectors that were at risk. Actually…

this is one of the amendments which was offered during the subcommittee markup but which we did not pursue because we had not identified offsets for the additional $50 million being requested, and we wanted an opportunity to try to work it…

I have never taken the opportunity to talk about a member of my staff before, but on this occasion I wish to do so very briefly, because tomorrow a member of my staff is leaving to go on to another wonderful opportunity. I think it is…

it is an honor for me this morning to have in the Senate Chamber both of my ministers--of course, the Chaplain of the Senate, Lloyd Ogilvie, and the individual who gave our prayer this morning, who is Thomas Erickson, minister of the…

I rise today with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to introduce the Border Patrol Recruitment and Retention Act of 1999. In 1996, the Congress passed unanimously, and the President signed, my amendment to the Immigration Reform Act requiring…

I rise in support of S. 257, the National Missile Defense Act of 1999. This straight-forward bill states that due to the increasing ballistic missile threat we face, "It is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as is…

I said: We should not take from that the fact that you can lie or that you can obstruct justice, that you can engage in conduct that is designed to subvert justice, to take the law into your own hands. That would be the wrong lesson.

This case is about the rule of law--specifically, whether actions and statements of President Clinton in federal court proceedings have done such harm to the rule of law that he should be removed from office. I conclude in the affirmative…