I thank the chairman. Again, it is an honor to serve with him on the Budget Committee and to have his invaluable support for these proven children's programs. With this budget, we are making an important investment in a future generation…

Finally, is it his understanding that Function 600 of the fiscal year 1995 budget allows for an additional $100 million above the President's request for the WIC Program, and an additional $200 million above the President's request for the…

I am pleased to rise as a member of the Budget Committee in support of the budget conference report. I hope the Senate today will say yes to this budget. I do not anticipate we will get many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

I rise today to share with my colleagues an experience that I had this morning that I wish each and every one of them could have shared. Today, I joined with several Senators and the First Lady at a hearing to listen to the concerns of…

I agree with the Senator's decision to accept the second-degree amendment of the Senator from Michigan. There is nothing inconsistent with the second-degree amendment and the first-degree amendment, as far as I can tell. We all agree that…

as a cosponsor of the bill and advocate for the Head Start Program, I rise in strong support of the Head Start Amendments Act of 1994. The Head Start Program has a long and distinguished history of preparing pre-school children from…

I rise today to honor three distinguished Californians--Army WO Michael Hall, Army WO Erik Mounsey, and Col. Jerald Thompson--who lost their lives last Thursday in the helicopter accident over Iraq. My heart goes out to the families of…

I thank my friend from Maryland, and I commend her for her excellent job managing this side of the debate. It has been a very, very long and difficult debate, and I thank both sides for their contributions. The reason I am rising again at…

he wrote in part: * * * In the past we have had a problem with late night ``gang mentality.'' How many times have I heard my colleagues on this floor talk about the evils of a gang mentality? Here it is admitted by the Navy that that is…

The DOD inspector general reports that, during his investigation, many naval officers systematically lied to hide the truth. He called it collective stonewalling. It ``increased the difficulty of the investigation,'' says the DOD IG, ``and…

I want to say in particular that the leadership of Congresswoman Pat Schroeder is going to go down in history on issues of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military. It swells my heart with pride to see her here.

I wish to speak today in tribute to the courage and tenacity of the Armenian people, to recall the horrors they have suffered over the centuries, and to remind us all that we must never let these events be repeated. For generations these…

I urge my colleagues to vote no on the issue before us; that is, the vote to retire Adm. Frank Kelso at four stars. I think he should retire with his pension intact at a two-star level. I realize this is a highly unusual action for us to…

Eight years is a very long time to wait, I say to my friends, when we have such a fragile environment to protect. I know that the good Senator from Wyoming is opposing the national park designation because he believes it is not the right…

I would just make the point that this is certainly a matter of controversy, but I have been on the Budget Committee both in the House and now in the U.S. Senate and there is a fund. It is not treated like a fund, and there is an argument…

I would like to quote from that USA Today editorial because I think it really, in a very succinct way, sums up this whole argument, and I would agree with my friend and leader on this issue, Senator Feinstein, that this is a killer…

I totally understand. What I am saying to the Senator, it would take the designation away from this park if in a certain number of years all the inholdings had not been bought. And I am just suggesting to the Senator, since he is willing…

I would like to respond to my colleague. Of course, this was a great pleasure to work with her on this bill. We will not rest until it becomes law. It has a lot of hurdles yet ahead. But I think we told the people of California very…

I am so pleased to join the senior Senator, Senator Feinstein, in strong support of her bill, the California Desert Protection Act. I am very proud to be her original cosponsor on this legislation. Mr. President, when we pass this bill, we…

I am proud to cosponsor the resolution offered by the Senator from Connecticut and I thank him for his leadership on this issue. Our Nation knows all too well the pain of political violence. On behalf of all Californians, I want to send my…

It is an honor for me to serve on the Budget Committee. In the House of Representatives I served on the Budget Committee for 6 years. I like the assignment because on the Budget Committee, you have a chance to step back and really look at…

I thank my chairman. He leads the Budget Committee in a way which all America can be proud, and I believe his priorities certainly reflect the priorities of the Nation. Invest in our children. It is the right thing to do. In the long run…

I rise to express my strong support for S. 4, the National Competitiveness Act of 1994. We won the cold war because there was a national commitment to win it. We dedicated the resources to the research and development and to the…

I would like to express my unqualified support for the nomination of William Gould IV to chair the National Labor Relations Board. I am excited at the intelligence and sense of fairness that he will bring to the National Labor Relations…

It truly is an honor to have a chance to work with my friend from Michigan, Senator Levin. When we learned of the massacre in Hebron, we talked and shared our grief and our feelings and our concern that this act could in fact derail the…