along with my colleague from New Jersey, Senator Bradley and my colleague from Rhode Island, Senator Chafee, I have introduced legislation to ban the production and sale of junk guns--or as they are sometimes called, Saturday night…

I support them if they are applied retroactively to all of us, to sitting officeholders. Unfortunately, through a series of parliamentary maneuvers known as ``filling the amendment tree,'' the Republican leadership has made it impossible…

I believe we can have a rational debate about this bill. The Senator from Texas said it is hard to be rational when you debate health care, but I think Senator Kassebaum is a very rational woman, and I think Senator Kennedy is a very…

We deleted all reference to Medicaid and Medicare and asked just for the Congress to look at this matter. So I tried to be very accommodating... We simply ask that the Congress should thoughtfully examine the issue of patients, finding out…

this is such a straightforward and simple sense-of-the-Senate. It is rather shocking to me that Members on the other side of the aisle have objected to it. I have to thank the chairwoman of the committee and Senator Kennedy, who were quite…

In 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in California by an assailant carrying a junk gun. That terrible event convinced Congress that something had to be done about the dramatic increase in gun violence. Specifically, Congress…

will my leader agree that these parliamentary maneuvers are really meant to delay, put off, postpone, block an up-or-down vote even though the majority of Senators support such an increase?

Yes, I do have a question. I have a comment as well. To my friend, Senator Murkowski, who has worked hard, along with Members on both sides of the aisle here, the fact is the House has passed the Presidio as a freestanding bill. Indeed…

So we have a national historic landmark. Five hundred buildings are on the National Register of Historic Buildings. We need to make sure that these buildings do not deteriorate and make sure we get the revenues to support the Presidio…

we should not look to the lawyers and we should not look to the companies. We should look to the people who stand up and speak for consumers and speak for victims. Now, I think this bill is particularly tough on women. I do not know what…

Mr. President, let me say to my friend from Indiana, I just talked to the representative of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. They much prefer the existing policy. The reason they are on this particular amendment is…

I will vote against H.R. 3019, the omnibus consolidated rescissions and appropriations bill, because it fails on three counts. First, it provides too little for critical national priorities, especially education, anticrime efforts, and…

despite my objections to the omnibus appropriations bill, I am pleased that it includes an amendment overturning the prohibition on military service by HIV-positive personnel. As my colleagues are aware, this grossly unfair prohibition was…

I hope he realizes I am proceeding in good faith. I am trying to make the point that we should go back to the 1993 law that said that although Medicaid funding could not be used, no Federal funding could be used for abortion, that the…

I do not believe anyone will, in fact, make a second-degree. I think there will be opposition. But it is very difficult for me to accept this time agreement where we will be able to just talk 10 minutes on each side, if I do not have an…

Mr. President, my amendment would restore the current law, the law that we have lived under since 1993, as it pertains to abortion funding policy for the District of Columbia. In 1993, this body decided no Medicaid funding could be used…

Clearly, there is much that could be debated on this. I, for one, do not see it as so complicated because every city and every county in America has the ability to use its own funds. When I am in working in Washington I have an apartment…

I was always taught as a child that when you make a mistake, you admit it and fix it. I think that is what happened here. Many of us who voted for the bill in which this rider was contained believed that it would allow the logging of dead…

I would just restate that whether it did or did not is not my point. My point is a statement was made here that the statute had expired, and the implication is that, if there was something wrong in the billing records, the First Lady and…

First of all, the statute of limitations on the Castle Grande transactions had not expired when the Rose Law Firm billing records were found in the White House in early January 1996. In fact, by a agreement between the RTC and the Rose Law…

we consider this conference report less than 2 weeks after a tragic day for the cause of democracy in Cuba. On February 24, Fidel Castro's brutal regime shot down two unarmed American aircraft belonging to Brothers to the Rescue who were…

I want to pay tribute to a young man named Brian Ohleyer, who was killed yesterday in a tragic automobile accident in northern California. Brian was in his twenties. He was a light in every life that he touched, in every community that he…

What an honor it is to represent the largest State in the Union, the most diversified State in the Union. We have in that State a tremendous farm community. We have in that State the Silicon Valley. We have more students, we have more…

with that assurance, I feel comfortable supporting this bill. And I hope that my colleagues who were also concerned about this provision will now feel comfortable supporting this bill. Once again, I thank the Senator for clarifying this…

I have divided feelings about the Conference Report on the fiscal year 1996 Department of Defense authorization bill. I am very pleased that the conferees have retained my amendment prohibiting members of the Armed Forces convicted of…