the Associated Press story to which I refer cited two particularly alarming items. First, the owner of a harbor warehouse in Los Angeles who continues to this day to profit from a Customs Service inspection station located on his property…

California has now replaced Florida as the major point of importation of cocaine in the United States. The California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement reports that 80 percent of the clandestine methamphetamine manufacturing labs seized and…

I also would like to correct the record, and so I rise today to set it straight. I am reacting to the fact again that the Senator from Mississippi submitted a portion of my floor statement from balanced budget debate last year and…

As the bill's coauthor, I'd like to add just a few thoughts about our proposal to extend the length of copyright protection for only the fourth time since the Founding Fathers established such rights more than 200 years ago. First…

This means then that Congress does not have the option of later excluding Social Security in implementation language. We simply do not have it. Therefore, unless Congress enacts this amendment, Social Security funds will be used to balance…

this constitutional balanced budget amendment is a very big issue. Its impacts are enormous. Its results, if passed and enacted, will be large and long remembered. Support for a Balanced Budget Amendment There are two reasons I want to…

I view the use of Social Security surplus revenues as a major flaw in the balanced budget amendment, but it is a flaw that can be corrected by this amendment. In 1990, this very body, by a vote of 98-2, voted to take it off budget. They…

I very strongly support it and I pointed out my rationale for so doing. Since then, we have been reading the committee report, Mr. President, and something has come to my attention. In the spirit of debate and discussion which was so…

Senator, this is exactly my point, because in 1990, this body took Social Security off budget by a vote of 98 to 2. Social Security draws its revenues from its own specific FICA tax, not from the income tax or any other tax of Government.

let me make this point, if I may, because the Senator from Idaho has just said these are not Federal programs. The majority report says these are Federal programs. The majority report says: ``Among the Federal programs that would not be…

this has piqued my curiosity as to what is excluded because, if we just follow the logic of the distinguished Senator from Illinois, I stretched my memory back to see if there was a time when the Federal Government ever bailed out Social…

I earnestly implore my committee chairman, the key is simply to exclude the revenues from balancing the budget in an amendment to this amendment, and that would be presented next week. I believe it is the only way to have an honest…

I cannot answer that with specificity, but it would seem to me that if Congress fails to balance the budget that the President would have some authority, and whether this automatically confers a line-item veto or whether we do it…

I want to support a strong balanced budget amendment. But I want to support the right balanced budget amendment. In my first 2 years as U.S. Senator, I have had the opportunity to observe the standard operating procedure of the Senate--the…

the House may be debating the Contract With America, but I ask the Senate today to consider the Contact with America. On Sunday, the people of America will be in contact with one another, eagerly debating, disputing, and disagreeing…

While I realize that I represent the entire State of California, I must admit that I will be cheering for the 49'ers. I would like to point out to my colleagues that there is no public outcry for term limits in football. Otherwise, the…

Well, no matter which team wins, Senator Boxer and I can take pride. There are obvious similarities between Government and football. In both, blows to the face are disallowed. And there is much that Government can learn from…

I certainly know the 49'ers. From day one of this season, the 49'ers were picked by many as the team to beat. Assembled from a corps of seasoned veterans and prime talent developed within, the 49'ers had but one goal: beat Dallas and win…

I thought it might be in order to give a very brief status report on the condition of the flooding in the State of California. It is a strange and altogether tragic irony that just about 1 year ago southern California was hit by wildfire…

I rise, not to discuss this subject, but to discuss another. I had a placeholder at 5:30 to introduce four amendments to this bill. But knowing that the proponents of the bill would very much like to have it passed without amendment, I…

I found a human being who was open, who was gentle, who was kind, who was listening, and who was interested. Then, of course, in 1992 I came to this Senate and I found a man who was a leader of the U.S. Senate--certainly a leader on the…

During the consideration of the legislation, I met with dozens of desert users, visited the region, and offered more than 50 amendments to address different concerns.

In reviewing the proposed Eagle Mountain Landfill project which is outside of the boundaries of the desert parks and wilderness areas, it appears its status is unchanged by the enactment of the California Desert Protection Act.

Tomorrow morning the President will most probably put forward his position on whether or not China should be granted most-favored-nation status. I would like to take this opportunity to say why I believe the trading status should be…

Thank you very much, Mr. President. Mr. President, I rise in support of Senator Moseley-Braun, Senator Simon, and yourself, Mr. President, in putting forward H.R. 1933. Mr. President, let me speak first as a Californian in support of this…