I was perplexed, to say the least, as I sat through hearings as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee just before the Fourth of July break, hearing testimony from Mr. Livingstone and others regarding this matter of the FBI files. I…

it is my pleasure to offer an amendment to make $3 million available from the $168.7 million in the Counterproliferation Support Program for the Surgical Strike Vehicle [SSV], which, when deployed, will hold at risk hardened or deeply…

the attacks on the churches, predominantly in the Southeast, are far more than attacks on these institutions--they are attacks on the very foundation of the United States. This country was formed to protect people's religious liberty…

I believe the answer to the question is that a veto would lie in the event that a majority of the Congress voted to disapprove the President's action.

My guess is, if a majority of Congress voted that way, it would send a message to the President. This, in any event, is a restriction that does not exist under current law. Today, the President can simply say, ``I am going to test because…

Without any involvement by Congress or without any report. Under our amendment, Congress has the ability to say no, and the President would have to continue to submit a report to us and he would have to report to us on the necessity for an…

This is an illustration of why this amendment would be useful. Without the Kyl amendment, first of all, the President would be able to conduct an unlimited number of underground nuclear tests just because China conducted a test. Second…

let me make what may be my concluding remarks. The Senator from Oregon, who will make a motion in just a moment, had two primary points. I would like to respond to both of them. The first is, he said we do not want to change our testing…

Yes, clearly it is, because without the Kyl-Reid amendment, if China tests, the President can test, period, end of story.

I cannot understand why this would be a controversial amendment. I suggest that this body can take the action that it deems appropriate. Certainly the White House will have its say in anything that we do on the Defense authorization bill…

Independence Day takes on a new meaning. We are finally independent. We can keep the money we raise and spend it on our own families instead of funding government programs.

a few weeks ago, I received a letter from Jerry Harbin of Phoenix, AZ, one of my constituents. Mr. Harbin works two jobs, his wife works another job, and they earn a modest income between them. The Harbins, who are in their mid-fifties…

I want to continue this same theme of discussing ideas that have been put forth by Republicans in the Congress and which the President has claimed he also supports, though in some cases the record would suggest otherwise. Former…

Bob Dole's statement upon announcing he would give up his Senate seat to run for the Presidency--that he is ``just a man''--packs a lot in a simple string of words, as is his habit. This phrase captures the modesty, the simplicity, and…

I would like to join the Senator from Mississippi in paying tribute to the Senator from Kansas, the distinguished majority leader. All of us who have served in this body can tell stories--even those of us who have served a very short…

Mr. President, we are talking today about the balanced budget amendment that we will soon be voting on again. There have been several different kinds of comments made about the need for the balanced budget, probably the two most prominent…

I guess what I am saying here is that the Russians themselves have made two contradictory arguments, both of which might be true. That is to say, No. 1, it is expensive to maintain these arsenals; No. 2, it is expensive to get rid of them…

There are a lot of arguments made by Russians themselves that relate to the cost of continuing to maintain an arsenal. My guess would be that the Russians would at least want to draw their arsenal down to the levels called for in START I…

It would be unfortunate if the two were required to be tied together and we could not act on the National Missile Defense Act, in my view anyway.

I just ask our colleagues tomorrow when the cloture vote comes to put us to the test and allow us to at least have a vote on the bill. We would like to get it passed. I would much rather move forward with the bill, get it to the President…

this makes the point that the Joint Chiefs were misled. They were basically told that the administration was not going to go forward with certain plans, that there were not changes being contemplated to the ABM Treaty that, in fact, were…

let me begin by discussing some of the details of this legislation because I think when our colleagues focus on precisely what it says, it is awfully hard to disagree with any of it. And in fact I cannot imagine that anyone would vote…

In response, I hope the Senator from Georgia is not suggesting that the National Missile Defense Act is being held hostage to bringing up the chemical weapons treaty because the two are not linked, and there are a lot of us who believe…

I accepted the numbers from the President, whose budget office gave that program a lower priority by virtue of the fact it was supposed to be temporary. So in years 3 and 4 we have accepted the numbers of the President's budget and then…

this is an amendment to save a little bit of money in the LIHEAP Program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. There are 6 years in our budget. The budget of the President and the committee and my amendment are all the same for…