I, too, enthusiastically endorse the nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Silverman of the State of Arizona to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and I would like to make a few comments on his behalf. Judge Silverman brings a proven…

I am proud to support H.R. 2265, the No Electronic Theft [NET] Act which is the companion bill to S. 1044, the Criminal Copyright Improvement Act of 1997, introduced by Senator Leahy and myself. H.R. 2265 passed the House of…

I am gratified that S. 493, the Cellular Telephone Protection Act, which would make it easier for Federal law enforcement to stop cell phone cloning, has unanimously been approved by the Senate. I expect that the bill will soon pass the…

I wanted to give a report to my colleagues on the status of the Medicare Beneficiary Freedom To Contract Act, the so-called Medicare private contracting issue, which has been before both the Senate and House for several weeks now following…

I support the Committee's report language which removes from consideration, under this resolution, any ongoing programs and projects which seek to reduce the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their materials, and…

over the past few weeks, a series of increasingly troubling reports have been published in the press indicating Iran has nearly completed development of two long-range missiles that will allow it to strike targets as far away as central…

for several days now the Senate has debated campaign finance reform legislation. Advocates of the so-called McCain-Feingold proposal deserve credit for advancing the issue. Unfortunately, in the view of a majority, they have been unable to…

I will not raise a point of order against Senator Mack's amendment. Though I continue to have numerous concerns about the proposed measure, it has been improved since the original Clinton administration proposal was offered. I am…

I rise to encourage the members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development to address the issue of occupancy standards when the public housing reform bill goes to conference committee. Earlier this year, Senator…

According to the article in the Washington Post, which I submitted for the Record a moment ago, by Stephen Barr writing about the Woodrow Wilson Living Memorial--and I quote now: The Center annually selects about 35 fellows who receive an…

I want to reassure my colleague from Utah that our amendment does not eliminate the Woodrow Wilson Center. It is not our intention to eliminate the Woodrow Wilson Center. And nothing in it does eliminate the Woodrow Wilson Center. The…

The whole point of this amendment is to prioritize among scarce resources. It is true that we have funded Indian programs this year to the extent that we thought was possible, and that represents an increase over last year, and it…

As I noted before, Chairman Specter has already indicated that he will move toward the higher numbers for Pell grants in conference. And the Labor Committee has indicated that it will act on the necessary authorization. So I think we have…

If I could ask this question. So the reason that my constituents in Arizona had to help pay for this union election is because of past fraud and alleged illegal conduct of the union. That is why they are having to pay for this union…

Obviously. The last question I ask is, why, if it is the union's elected officials' fault that the taxpayers had to spend this money in the first instance because they had allowed the fraud and alleged corruption to come into the union and…

What I said was that once a welfare state program is instituted, it is very difficult to get rid of it even if the need for it has been eliminated or reduced. That, in my opinion--and I know the distinguished Senator from Iowa disagrees…

I just wanted to comment on two of the points he made. It is, indeed, true that the total amount of money to be expended on Pell grants has been increased by about $1 billion. That goes to increase the maximum Pell grant to $3,000. It does…

Thank you, Mr. President. At this time, let me explain the reasons for my amendment to increase Pell grant funding. I submitted a statement for the Record yesterday. But I would like to discuss it in a little bit more detail today. There…

My view would be this was a temporary program designed to meet a temporary need, that it was never designed to pay for 100 percent of the bill for heating, and therefore there is a point at which the need for the program should go away…

when the budget agreement was announced in May, I expressed a great deal of skepticism about whether it would provide adequate tax relief to hard-working American families, whether Medicare's solvency would be assured, and whether the…

I totally agree with you there should be a fair allocation, meaning that it should be in rough proportion to the caseload, and the projected caseload, not just the existing caseload. Therefore, if that means that there should be a…

If I could respond to that direct point by the Senator from Pennsylvania. You and I know, all our colleagues know, how long it takes to get a letter cleared downtown. It takes a long time. A legislative liaison cannot quickly get a letter…

if I could respond then to the Senator from Pennsylvania, he is absolutely correct. There is a second event which again calls into question the objectivity of the Justice Department and I think requires us to add a second element to this…

That is right, minority counsel represents the Democratic members of the committee; majority counsel represents Republican members of the committee. In the past, they had dealt with the Justice Department together as counsel for the…

Fine. Let me then continue with another aspect of this that is important. Again, just to summarize this, it is not at all uncommon in law enforcement in order to be able to make the case against the people who are masterminding a crime…