Section 816 of the fiscal year 1995 Defense Authorization Act authorized a demonstration project in Monterey County, CA, which would permit the Department of Defense to purchase fire-fighting, police, public works, utility, and other…

as passed by the House of Representatives, the fiscal year 1996 Department of Defense authorization bill included a provision authorizing the Secretary of Defense to sell at fair market value to the city of Seaside, CA, two golf courses…

I think the Senate will be very proud to vote for this amendment because we are going to put an end to a most outrageous policy that has gone on really without the knowledge of many of us. It is one of those issues that has gotten buried…

Mr. President, as we proceed on this antiterrorism bill, I would like to discuss for a moment one provision of the bill which I believe is very noncontroversial but I think is very significant, and that is the provision of the bill that…

I am absolutely ready to go with the amendment. My friend, the good Senator from Ohio, has been with me here since 9:30 this morning. I was ready to go at that time. I did lay down my amendment. As my friend from Delaware knows, there is…

this amendment should be adopted. It is fair. It levels the playing field for firearms crimes. It is needed. It is not this Senator who says it is needed; it is the people who do the work, the difficult law enforcement work, tracking down…

The kinds of cuts that my colleagues on the Republican side are talking about out of Medicare simply will ruin Medicare. We cannot possibly, in the name of deficit reduction, destroy the Medicare system or the Medicaid system, for that…

I want to point out that in vote after vote, the vast majority of my Republican friends here in the Senate have voted in these last few days to replace State product liability laws, State medical malpractice--indeed, all other civil…

I say to my friends, I know these are arguments they do not enjoy hearing, and I therefore appreciate the generosity. We all remember engines of cars exploding, company executives saying, ``Well, we figured we would have a few explosions…

Mr. President, what are we doing here in the Senate today? We are voting, beginning to vote, to change a legal system that, while not perfect, is adjudged to be the best in the world. We are not tinkering around the edges. We are not…

I thank my friend, because I have to say that I did notice broad support for this when it came up. The Senator from Massachusetts certainly worked on it, as chairman of the committee at that time. Very few spoke out against it. It is hard…

I did not come here to take from the kids and give to the rich. And I did not come here to throw the women and children over first. And that is exactly what the Republicans are doing in this Congress. Cut the WIC Program, the Women…

I had a wonderful experience visiting an AmeriCorps Program in Los Angeles. I want to tell my friend that the Americorps volunteer--and by the way, our Republican friends say: They are not volunteers. They get a stipend. They get money for…

I think this would be very foolish in the long run. Yes, in the short run we could save some dollars, but in the long run if we fall behind here it means the loss of jobs. Our economy cannot afford that kind of hit.

after much thought and analysis, I have decided to oppose this bill. I have made this decision for one simple reason: on balance, I believe this bill is bad for California and bad for the Nation. I support the supplemental appropriations…

On page 25, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following: Sec. 110. It is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) Congress should enact legislation that terminates the entitlement to pay and allowances for each member of the Armed Forces who is…

We are expressing the sense of the Senate that a member of the armed services sentenced by a court martial to confinement and a punitive discharge or dismissal should not receive full pay and allowances. Mr. President, I will take but a…

I have to say to you, Mr. President--and it is my very strong view--that in this U.S. Senate, with all the experience we bring to these issues, with all the expertise we bring to these issues, it seems to me to essentially stop the…

I really hope in this particular case the Senate will follow the leadership of John Chafee, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. I think it is not the right way to go about amending the Endangered Species Act, to…

I have just returned from California, where there was obviously great interest in the vote on the balanced budget amendment. I have to say that the response to my vote, in general, was one that greatly encourages me. I have to say…

The answer is I am not for touching Social Security either, and because I believe that, I think it is a compact with the people who paid into it.

I say to my friend--and I thank him for continuing to yield--the reason I answered the question the way I did to my friend, the good Senator from New Hampshire, is because the Republicans are trying to have it both ways. It is really…

And it cut spending the other $250 billion. But the point I want to make, in conclusion, and then I will yield back the time to the good Senator and thank him once again for his leadership on this: The Senator himself said he was working…

I thank you very much. I was not planning to participate, but something the Senator said makes me want to, and that is during the discussion with the Senator from Maryland on the vote on the deficit reduction package, which the Senator…

My question to the Senator was, he said at the time he would have preferred to cut spending $250 billion instead of raising the taxes. The President's plan did raise taxes on the wealthy, and it also cut taxes much more broadly on the…