Lateefah Simon

I will speak just briefly on another subject. That is, Senator Lugar and I and Senator Warner and a total of 25 of us on both sides have introduced a bill to say, let us have a study of the growth of legalized gambling in our country. This…

A balanced budget constitutional amendment, one of these days, has to pass. The question is, how much we are going to hurt our Nation before we pass it. There is just no question, if we had passed it back when John F. Kennedy complained…

I served for 10 years over in the House. Handling the garage entrance there has been a police officer, D.E. Moss. I learned today he is retiring today. I am probably like most of my colleagues. We just do not thank people around here…

We are spending an increasing percentage of our tax dollar on interest. I do not care whether you are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative. That just does not make sense. We ought to be spending our money on goods and services…

The reality is, we have already wounded America. But the wounds will become much more severe if we do not pay attention to this.

I would have to say--and I say this as someone who is supporting Bill Clinton for reelection--that Bob Dole has been consistent on this. This is not a phony position that he is taking in order to gain a few votes in an election. Second, in…

But my staff tells me that if this amendment is adopted, we have a 40 percent cap.

The reality is direct lending under balanced scorekeeping, and we are trying to work that out with your staff right now. Direct lending saves money by any normal procedure, as the awards today have indicated. I will check this out with my…

I confess I have some mixed feelings on this. While I have been recognized on opposition time, it is possible that I will vote for it because there are things that I think are very good in this.

let me say that there is one area where I differ with my colleague from New Mexico, and I have great respect for him. I think he is one of the finest Members of this body, and his leadership in trying to move us toward a balanced budget I…

I would agree. We are engaged here in fine-tuning an important budget reform, not criticizing it. I thank my colleague for providing that perspective, and for his willingness to look at these issues.

I would respond that there are a number of imperfections in the budget scoring of student loans, and that the chairman's point about administrative costs is one of them. But on the whole, I believe the imperfections create a bias in favor…

let me point out what is happening in defense spending. Here is the United States. Here are the next five countries in defense spending: Russia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. We are spending more on defense than the next…

I am for this amendment for two reasons: One is it reduces the deficit. Some of us on this floor right now are members of the Budget Committee. Let me tell you without a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget the 7 years…

Absolutely. This is taking place in thousands and thousands of plants in your State, in my State, in every State here. The law has permitted explosive growth in cooperative programs and employee involvement plans. The committee report…

Absolutely not, I say to my colleague from Massachusetts. That is hogwash. In a nonunion shop, the employer can talk to his employees about anything. He can call them together as a group or talk to them individually. Nothing in the law…

Senator Kennedy, that is absolutely not true. When you talk about distortions, you are absolutely correct. This thing has been so distorted. If this bill passes, we will have a huge imbalance. In a union shop, the employees bargain with…

Ever since the General Foods case in 1977, it has been clear that employees can be given decisionmaking authority without violating section 8(a)(2). If management wants to set up work teams and allow them to schedule their own hours…

Finally, the Republicans have said in their official position that it is illegal for an employer to provide paper and pencils or a place to meet for a team or a committee; is that true?

But what if they do, or what if an employer wants to appoint a safety team to figure out why so many employees had back injuries, for example? Can the employer do that?

let me just comment on two things very briefly that, apparently, are going to be joined in the vote tomorrow. Let me say that if they are joined, I, if no one else, am going to ask for division on the question, so we can vote separately on…

My guess is that in the State of Tennessee people were not complaining. I talked to one of our colleagues from a western State, and they were not complaining. One of the advantages, Mr. President, of not running for reelection is, a year…

let me just comment, I have frequently said on the floor we are too partisan, excessively partisan. It is true. But this is a case where we discussed the issues, where on one side you had the Simpson-Kennedy leadership, on the other side…

We already have a provision in here for 5 years. That is not the issue. The issue is, are we going to go back, on this amendment, retroactively and say to sponsors, sorry, Uncle Sam is not going to live up to his word; we are changing your…

This is an amendment that says, ``To exempt from the deeming rules, immigrants who are disabled after entering the United States.'' That is the current law. It simply goes back to the current law. It sets a safety net there. So that no one…