today I am introducing three bills to stop the contamination of California's drinking water by the gasoline additive MTBE. First, I am introducing a bill to allow California to apply its own clean or reformulated gasoline rules as long as…

today, I am introducing the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1999 with Senator Olympia Snowe. This bill has four provisions: For breast cancer-- 1. It requires insurance plans to cover hospital stays as determined by the attending…

I understand that the joint resolution would continue funding actions during fiscal year 1996, for HUD essentially under the provisions of the fiscal year 1995 VA, HUD, an Independent Agencies Appropriation Act. Funding would continue at a…

I rise in opposition to sections 103 to 105 of the Commerce Justice State appropriations bill. These sections would further undermine the constitutional right to an abortion. The right to an abortion was first articulated by the Supreme…

this amendment makes a technical correction to the bill's current language appropriating funds for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, known in short as SCAAP. I was very pleased last year to be part of a bipartisan group of…

I think particularly the public hospitals in the urban centers are going to be whacked in the head unless this amendment is adopted, because a large percentage of patients comprise this population and there would be no reimbursements, no…

Mr. President, bottom line, this bill as drafted, without this amendment, is a massive cost shift. As I said, the costs are shifted essentially to four States: Texas, Florida, New York, and California. What this bill says presently is no…

I believe that we are essentially a nation of immigrants. I sit as a new member of the Immigration Subcommittee and I know there is a legitimate reason that the Government should try to dissuade, in any way we can, people from becoming…

this is a very hard argument for me because I very much respect the Senator from Wyoming. He is my chairman on the committee. I do not think anyone in this body knows more about immigration. I doubt that he drafted the actual language in…

what this amendment does is essentially assures that, in those large counties or groups of counties with a population greater than 500,000, that there be provision, with permission of the State--this is the modification in the amendment…

this amendment involves deeming. It is a complicated issue. Let me try and explain it simply. It only involves legal aliens. Presently, deeming only applies to cash programs, AFDC, SSI, food stamps. This amendment would remove the deeming…

I rise to oppose this Graham-Bumpers formula. I must say--and I say it respectfully--this formula is sudden death for California. It will cost California about $1 billion. It is enormous in its impact. There is no fiscal year in which…

These tables show how 28 States would gain as a difference between what the Dole bill would give and what this amendment would provide. For the most part, many of these are States with a higher benefit level. These States have decided they…

let me try to be succinct as to how this amendment would change the Dole bill. Essentially what the Dole bill does, as drafted, is present a growth fund for the next 5 years of $877 million. It then submits a formula under which that…

2 weeks ago, I returned from a 6-day trip to China, during which time I spent more than 20 hours in meetings with top-level Chinese officials, including 4 hours with the President of the country, Jiang Zemin, Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, and…

In deference to my opponents on this issue, and I very much respect them, there is really a difference in viewpoint here. Let me explain where I am coming from. For more than a half a century, the way the Federal allocation has been…

I know the formula is going to be difficult to change. If it looks like a growth formula, if it is named like a growth formula, it ought to talk and walk like a growth formula. That is all I am saying. More States are benefited by this. I…

the Dole bill requires that income and resources of an immigrant sponsor be deemed as available to the immigrant when determining eligibility for all federally funded, means-tested programs. This is the case, whether or not the immigrant…

This is not just a legal immigrant, but a naturalized citizen too. We are not talking here about removing that requirement for legal immigrants in this amendment. This is just for naturalized citizens.

These funds apply, if two things are met: one, the State's welfare spending is less than the national average of State spending; and, second, population growth is greater than the national population growth. That does not necessarily…

I did not know Senator Packwood well, but I have watched him. I heard him on CNN last evening. I have heard him on other shows. I have listened to him, as the leader and the Senator from Wyoming have pointed out, explain complicated issues…

The Dole proposal, as we understand it, benefits only 19 States. My amendment benefits all States. I would be happy to debate it. If I am wrong, I would be happy to admit it. This is our belief. Our formula would benefit 27 States, beyond…

A court order would be obtained and the parents of the male child would be responsible for the child support of that offspring.

throughout the welfare debate it has often been stated that people closest to the problem know how to best deal with it. In fact, many States assign administration of Federal welfare programs to counties. As a former mayor, and a former…

Only if they have become United States citizens. In other words, the deeming provision does not apply if you are naturalized. In this bill, the deeming provision extends even to naturalized citizens. Therefore, they would not be eligible.