I thank my leader for making what I think is a very rational request, that we take up a Patients' Bill of Rights and we have the option of amending such a bill so that we can in fact help the majority of the American people who are telling…

I oppose the DeWine amendment, which will curb the rights of women who work for the federal government to obtain abortion services through their health insurance. I strongly urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment. Over one…

I do not believe that this child safety lock amendment is a panacea--the cure-all, which will stop all kids from dying. But it will help. And I believe we must do whatever we can to help. I want to talk to you about a survey that was done…

Every single one of us on both sides of this issue absolutely love children. It is just very hard for me to understand that we cannot come together on this commonsense approach. This amendment does no violence to the right to own a gun, to…

Another letter comes to us from a heroine of mine, Sarah Brady, whose husband Jim, as you remember, was gunned down when he was the press secretary to President Reagan. She is the head of Handgun Control and writes us a letter today. Dear…

I simply say this: If ever there was a matter that was a commonsense matter, this is it. We are losing kids; 5,000 kids are dying. In my State, gunshot wounds are the No. 1 cause of death among children. So anything we can do to prevent…

The amendment in the second degree I have just sent to the desk requires that all handguns sold in the United States include a child safety lock. I am offering this amendment for one extremely simple reason: to keep our children safe. The…

it is very hard for me to vote for something that has so many loopholes in it. Maybe during the time in the well the Senator from Idaho can convince me of this, but basically you can't use evidence as evidence. That is what the words say…

I am disappointed, because I think it is a very clear vote: Either you are for child safety locks or not. I would have preferred that, but in the interest of moving this bill forward, I do not object to the unanimous consent request.

We are not acting to make sure that there are these safety locks placed for children, specifically to stop their deaths from handguns sold in America. Look at these numbers. Look at this collage of headlines. How many more deaths do we…

I introduced the Prostate Testing Full Information Act in June of 1997 following a series of town hall meetings in my State of California. At these meetings, we brought together the top prostate cancer experts in the State, the head of the…

I hope the Senate will vote to table the Bryan amendment for four reasons: One, we reformed the program and the proceeds do not any longer go to big business; they go to small businesses and cooperatives; two, we have cut this program down…

when I was a little girl, my mother used to tell me about my grandfather, who I never met, because he died very young from a smoking-related illness. I heard about how wonderful he was. And my mother, I remember her saying almost every day…

I abstained on this vote because my husband's law firm is co-counsel in several lawsuits against tobacco companies filed in California state court by health and welfare trust funds. The Ethics Committee has advised me that voting on an…

This conference report has provided important funding to preserve a bridge in California. This bridge is not just any bridge. It is the bridge that is a symbol for my state and it is a national treasure. The Golden Gate Bridge is truly a…

I am going to support the strongest possible tobacco legislation we can put together. I am going to support not the weakest, but the strongest tobacco legislation we can put together. There are two reasons for this. First, Smoking kills…

I do not have complicated reasons for supporting the strongest possible legislation. It is simply about life and death. And it is very obvious to me that by passing comprehensive, tough legislation, we have a chance to stop kids from…

Mr. President I am proud to support the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 which I believe is an important step in the evolution of international digital commerce. The DMCA accomplishes two important goals--it implements the…

earlier this morning, some of us were on the floor urging the Senate to bring up the Patients' Bill of Rights, a very important bill that would essentially protect patients from decisions made by accountants and bureaucrats in insurance…

Today Senator Durbin and Senator Bumpers join me in introducing legislation to repeal a special-interest rider attached to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill last week. This rider is a taxpayer rip-off. It blocks the Interior…

I support the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. This bill, when fully implemented, will achieve 3 important objectives: First, it will greatly benefit the American taxpayer who, all too often, has been the victim of overzealous and…

I do support the passage of this emergency supplemental, but I want to point out to my colleagues something very important that happened in that committee. There is the presence of a rider in this particular bill. I think you ought to know…

I support NATO expansion, and do so for one primary reason: I truly believe that expanding the NATO alliance to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic will lead to greater peace and security throughout Eastern Europe--the same…

I see NATO as a military alliance that has been extremely successful, that has worked very well, and I don't want to see anything happen to NATO that would change the focus of what it really is. I think what will happen is there will be a…

The Senator from Arkansas criticizes this program yet his side of the aisle agreed to it unanimously in the budget. We already debated this Boxer amendment, this exact same thing, in the budget resolution. The Senator from Arkansas didn't…