As much as Americans may want to reform welfare, they don't want a system that goes from a hand-out to the back of the hand. The House bill passed last week and a similar bill passed Tuesday by the Senate would end the 60-year-old federal…

I stand here for welfare reform but against this bill. I am voting no, because I am not for punishing kids, and I am not for punishing California or other States that have most of our legal immigrants. Saying that I am for welfare reform…

Let me say that I have the honor and privilege of serving with my friend, Senator Reid, on the Environment Committee, and that is what brought me to the floor today. I ask Senator Bryan this question: Is it not true that the waste that…

We appreciate the chairman's past support for this project and knows he understands the value of providing key connections for transit with other modes of travel, such as airports. We also appreciate his concerns over local participation…

I first want to personally praise the distinguished chairman for this appropriations bill which does so much to enhance the safety and infrastructure investment in our Nation's transportation systems. I know the Senator is a long-time…

I feel compelled to make this statement at this time on the Senate floor. First, I want to express my profound dismay that after an attack of terrorism that occurred at the Olympics, colleagues on the other side of the aisle would use 1…

In my 30 seconds, I want to underscore, first of all, what my senior Senator said, which is that we are very willing to make changes in welfare. We want to reform welfare. We both said that when we ran for the U.S. Senate. We have both…

We believe that the sponsors who can, should and must pay for people they sponsor to come to the country. But I want to make a point to my friend. It is worthy to note that approximately 400,000 legal immigrants receive AFDC in California…

It is prospective. Our amendment makes it prospective, but it says to the folks here, ``We are not going to change your rules in the middle of the game.'' All the things my friend is explaining, none of those are touched by the…

I want to make sure the Senator realizes that Senator Feinstein and I, in this amendment, do not change any of the things my friend is talking about. We do not touch anything in the underlying bill. All the Senator does, and I back her 100…

I commend the Senator and both sides of the aisle for their leadership here, and say as one who has fought hard and long with the Senators from Maryland, Connecticut, and certainly Senator Pryor and others for nursing home standards, we…

May I ask the majority leader this. I understand his point, but 74 or so Senators voted for the minimum wage, and we do not seem to get action on that. So it is a matter of priorities, I say.

I got a public education all the way from kindergarten through college. I serve in the U.S. Senate and I go toe to toe with some folks here who have gone to the best private colleges. That is America. We give our young people the…

although I support many provisions of the bill, I will vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997. This bill authorizes more than $10 billion above the funding level requested by the administration and the Joint Chiefs of…

I thank the Chair. I thank very much Senator Moynihan who has been working so hard to put together a measure this body can pass and feel good about. I thank him specifically for helping us with some very important provisions dealing with…

The reason I have asked the Senator to yield again is because I am so pleased about this initiative. What the Senator is saying is that responsibility is very key here. Clearly, if young people decide it is out of fashion to carry a weapon…

today I am introducing the Women's Cardiovascular Diseases Research and Prevention Act, a bill to expand and intensify research and educational outreach programs regarding cardiovascular diseases in women. This bill will aid our Nation's…

The issue here is equal treatment under the law, basically. You have a man who has to have a procedure performed that is a legal procedure. No one tells him he has to get on a plane. No one asks him all the details. No one puts him on a…

I wonder what my friends of the male persuasion from both sides of aisle would be doing on this floor if suddenly it was the case that men could not get help when they were stationed abroad. They would say, ``Well, regardless of what it…

Yes, I ask my friend, how does he justify treating a woman who wants to get a legal procedure in a different fashion from a man who wants to get a legal medical procedure?

I say that of all of the issues that we face, where women's rights to choose have been narrowed dramatically--if she is a Federal employee, we know that right is narrowed. She cannot use her insurance. But at least she is in America and…

I say to my friend, very seriously, if you look a woman in the eye who decides to exercise her legal right to choose, that she has a certain frame of time in which to make that painful, difficult, personal decision with her God, with her…

I thank my friend for her leadership on this. I am so pleased she has raised this issue for the Senate. As we know, this Congress is narrowing women's right to choose. But I think nothing would be more disturbing than what we have before…

They are risking their lives, just as the men do, to fight for their country, and indeed may die for this country. Why on Earth would this U.S. Senate put their health at risk? That is a major question. I ask my friend. Is there any case…

we have seen in recent weeks a series of attacks on black churches in the south. At least 33 churches have been set ablaze in a campaign of terror. Mr. President, every one of us has to make his or her voice heard in opposition to this…