Frank Riggs: “the most effective way to preserve threatened species is by improving and expanding their habitat. One might expect that…”

I take the floor tonight because I think it is very important that a Member of this body speak out with respect to some of the inferences or suggestions that have been made that are in a way somewhat related, although I would suggest very…

I just, first of all, want to thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) for what I think is a good-faith decision on his part to raise this issue for debate but perhaps not to pursue an amendment. We disagree on, if you will, the…

I would like to refer her to an article in today's newspaper that is very timely to this evening's debate headlined Boalt Minority Admissions Up 30 Percent. I quote from the first paragraph of the article: ``In the school's second year of…

fundamentally this debate is about the refusal of my colleagues on the other side to give up their Band-Aid-- their fig leaf--their placebo for the failure of their great society social programs and the failure of the public education…