Lateefah Simon

One other great advantage of the WPA-type of program that I will offer in this amendment is we do not restrict it to one person in a household. One of the things that we have done through our welfare policies is discourage families from…

I do regret that we do not have more of a bipartisan effort, not only on this but on a lot of things. This has happened gradually over a period of years on the Hill, and I think it has not been a healthy thing. So when the Senator from…

while I commend the work of the Senators involved in negotiating this compromise amendment on missile defenses, which is certainly an improvement over what is currently in the bill, I cannot support the amendment. By nature, compromises…

I want to join the others who are paying tribute to our colleague, who has announced today that he will not seek reelection. I heard Senator Chafee say the Senate today is a better place because of Senator Pell. I do not know that the…

It was just a few days ago when Senator Byrd...no U.S. official, presumably the Department of Defense, can discuss with any other country what the ABM Treaty means.

Well, in response to that question, which is an extremely important question for the American people, obviously it does not make sense. It is a response that grows out of something--and I know the Senator from Massachusetts feels very…

if I may follow immediately on what Senator Kennedy just talked about, this Friday we are going to be taking up welfare reform. Ninety-five percent of what we hear about as welfare reform is not welfare reform. It is just moving the boxes…

in November of last year, when I announced I would retire from the Senate after 1996, President Clinton suggested that with the freedom from political restraint I now have, and with slightly more credibility because political opportunism…

That does not count what happens illegally. The second thing, the Senator mentioned in passing--as you saw them take these balls for the lottery--that you do not spend any money on it. Most people of our income level do not. It is the poor…

As usual, Senator Dorgan is right on target on this issue. Today, I regret to say, we have topped $500 billion now in total gross income. It is a fast-growing industry in the United States.

We passed a law that among other things prohibited Members of Congress from writing recommendations. If you have a member of your staff who wants to get a civil service job, it is against the law for you to write a letter of…

because I am interested in adopting this, and I am not trying to cause problems on the floor, I will withhold my request at this point. But I want to assure my colleagues on the floor, I am going to bring this amendment up one way or…

I strongly support the Kennedy amendment. This bill, as it stands, is a bureaucracy builder, not a bureaucracy buster. I would just point out that Business Week has an article in the July 15 issue which suggests this is adversely going to…

Take a look at what happens there. Those are not just statistics. We are talking about the lives of people. That has been a dramatic change for coal miners in southern Illinois, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Why change this when both the…

the reality is what we are doing is we are putting in effect a procedure that will lengthen the time in which MSHA and OSHA can respond to problems. She mentioned indoor air quality. I do not know very much about it. I know I have been in…

I am pleased to say that I think we have an amendment that will be agreed to. It is very simple. It says: None of the provisions of this subchapter shall apply to agency rules or actions intended to protect children against poisoning…

They are not. That is why I think we have to be very, very careful in this area. If I may regain my time just for a minute, when you talk, for example, in an area that the Senator from Louisiana knows much about, and the Presiding Officer…

Let me just add, there is no question that the Senator from Louisiana has improved the bill before us.

Cost-benefit analyses are expensive, hard to do. In the end, you try to put a dollar value on human lives. You just cannot do that effectively. The cost-benefit test just does not make sense.

What we need in this field is some balance. There is no question we have overregulation. Anyone, in any field--I do not care whether it is education, medicine, what the field is--recognizes we have overregulation. But the bill that came…

I think the answer is what is quantifiable and what is nonquantifiable is going to become a matter of jurisdiction of the courts under this legislation. I think we are going to have endless litigation.

that article is about this legislation. Listen to the last sentence of this article. This is not from some wild-eyed radical liberal publication. This is from Business Week. Overreliance on cost-benefit analysis could make things worse for…

I think the dialog we have just had suggests that my point is valid, that we are going to end up with the courts deciding what is quantifiable and what is not quantifiable. I think we should move slowly in this area. I have been in…

today I submit an amendment that I plan to offer to S. 652, the telecommunications bill next week. The amendment will ensure that when the Regional Bell Operating Companies enter the business of manufacturing, the consumer will be…

What it does is it changes the provision if an alien is to be deported. Under the present bill, if there is classified information that alien is not informed of anything. That is a clear violation of due process and I think the courts…