Lateefah Simon

Will my colleague recall any other time we had an amendment offered where the sponsors of the amendment requested that there had to be a 67-vote approval for the acceptance of the amendment?

since 1980, we have spent $1.7 trillion, I regret to say--$1.7 trillion--on interest. In the next 5 years, we will spend $1.7 trillion on interest. We have to change those habits. We spend $800 million a day on interest. That would pay for…

I do not think there is any question that the CIA has to monitor the personal finances of people who work for the CIA. If there is anyone who is working for the CIA and is showing a very lavish lifestyle, serious questions have to be asked.

As the Senator knows, we have an agreement and it would take unanimous consent to permit the Warner amendment to be adopted. This has obviously changed some, slightly. But if you will look at their projections from 1990 down, take a look…

If it works. Madam President, as my colleague from Oregon knows, that just is not going to happen. What we will do before we get there is we will do what countries have done historically, from ancient Florence down to Germany after World…

I simply want to commend the Senator from Oregon. The reality is that we have to simply face up to this thing. The Senator has learned, as he says, from experience, that we have to do this. We just cannot let these things go up endlessly…

You are in the same category. This was put together by OMB to show what a great thing they have done. Down here it says ``future generations.'' Before we passed reconciliation last year, column 1 says that 93 percent of lifetime earnings…

When the amendment says that you have to balance estimated outlays and estimated receipts rather than real outlays and real receipts, that is fairly significant. When the amendment also says you can have a capital budget and for State…

This is my time. I wish to answer the question. No nation has gone into where we are projected to go in terms of deficit versus GDP without monetizing the debt, without printing money. Second, all the other industrial nations without…

one of the really effective leaders in the State of Illinois died from cancer recently. She was Jacqueline Vaughn, who was the president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and president, for many years, of the Chicago Teachers Union…

we have the world's only Foreign Service with no language entry requirement, so it is particularly important that we encourage proficiency in languages among Foreign Service officers. I've put forward several measures in the authorization…

NATO and absurdities--Why even have it if it's afraid to protect the European democracies? If Russia attacked Poland and our new friend Lech Walesa, should NATO come to his defense? Would it? If Russia attacked the Czech Republic and our…

NATO was to give Europe stability. The great threat to the world now, and the great threat in Europe, is instability. And one of the threats--let us be candid--right now is what is going to happen to Russia, in Russia. Our friends in…