I am proud to stand with Senator Hollings and Senator Byrd and many other Senators today in support of Senate Joint Resolution 18. This measure proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the Congress to limit the amount of money that is…

I think that has to be put into context that every Senator is sent here primarily to represent his or her constituency in his or her own State. I don't think the majority leader would suggest that Senators do not have the right to protect…

I agree with my friend from Utah. Alan Greenspan, who is the hero of many on the Republican side of the aisle--indeed, when we say the President's policies have brought us millions of new jobs and the lowest misery index, they always say…

Exactly. I would say to my friend that you have to learn from history. If we can't learn from history, we are doomed to fail the people. Some of us have heard about these depressions from our parents. Look at the Senator's chart. We can…

I think the record is clear. We are making progress, and what we ought to be doing now is debating how we make further progress. Instead we are spending many, many hours discussing an amendment to the Constitution which does not one thing…

I give my friend an example. The San Francisco earthquake, Loma Prieta, which was way back, we are still rebuilding from, I say to my friend. And we had a freeway go down, just a disaster, and we got the funds to rebuild the freeway. About…

I want to brief the Senate on an issue that is gaining steam in my home State of California, because, if it is resolved, it will result in about $80 million going directly into the school system in California to help the children there…

I am very pleased about President Clinton's nomination of Andrew Cuomo for Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and am delighted to support this nomination. Secretary-designate Cuomo's accomplishments in the…

last week, Senators Stevens and Breaux introduced a bill S. 39, that would significantly weaken protections for dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean by rewriting-- gutting--the ``dolphin safe'' tuna labeling law that Senator…

today I am to introducing the American Handgun Standards Act, a bill to require that handguns made in the United States meet the same quality and safety standards currently required of imported handguns. I am joined in this effort by…

in March 1996 scores of volunteers throughout California helped make NetDay 96 one of the most successful one-day public projects in history. At the time, we all noted that this electronic barn-raising could be a turning point in…

in June of this year, along with my colleagues Senators Inouye, Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry, and Jeffords, I introduced legislation (S. 1848) to provide temporary tax incentives to spur the market for clean fuel vehicles, including natural…

I thank all the parties. I think we should not let this moment go by, I say to my majority leader, because I do believe there are so many wonderful things in the package that have been assembled by the Senator from Alaska. I know he has…

The bill's supporters say that it is unreasonable for the United States to continue to impose a unilateral embargo on other fishing nations that wish to sell tuna in our country. I agree. It is time to lift the embargo. That is why Senator…

Mr. President, today, the Majority Leader asked unanimous consent to take up a bill--the Stevens/Breaux/Gilchrest bill--that would significantly weaken protections for dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean by…

13 dedicated people are leaving the U.S. Senate this year. Each of them will leave a mark on this institution. Each has contributed to its accomplishments. Each has been an able and honorable representative of his or her State. I count…

First of all, I am distressed that we still have not confirmed a judge who is highly qualified to sit on the Federal bench in the Central District Court of California, Margaret Morrow. Republicans in this Congress said, ``Look, when you…

Today we close a 3-year effort to fix a problem in State law that has led to scores of cruise ships bypassing my State of California, taking thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in needed revenue with them. Our ship, finally, has come…

I say to my colleague, I know that the Democratic leader and the majority leader have talked about this. I know from him that it would not be acceptable, because as Senator Dole came here for a meeting with Republican colleagues of the…

the reason I asserted my parliamentary rights is because time is a wasting. I would like to ask Senators to do me one favor as a colleague, and that favor is this: to simply visualize yourself in a circumstance where a person who you love…

The majority leader is correct that we are anxious for this bill. We were pleased, Senator Feinstein and I, to go to the press conference, but we had not read the 700 pages of the bill. But we do hope very much, as I know you do, that we…

Madam President, we have been debating this for a very long time. I think we have kept our emotions under control. I can personally tell you that there are emotions on both sides. I hope that we can respect each other. We have had hours of…

To my knowledge, not one of these women who has come forward to tell her story has shared her medical records detailing one of the greatest tragedies that her family has ever faced with anyone other than her family, her God, and her own…

I applaud him for his real courage, for him coming to this floor and saying the real truth, which is this: There is no reason that we are taking this bill up today in the last week of the session, or the last few days of the session, other…

Thank you, Madam President. Not one of these women who have courageously come forward to tell her story----