Lateefah Simon

my hope is that it would be acceptable to the managers. I think this is in the line of the spirit of what is being offered. It is in line with the original draft. It certainly is in line with the sentiments over the years that I have…

I strongly support and am pleased to cosponsor this amendment. It is right in theory. It is in line particularly with the Court decision that was made the other day about guns in school. I happen to disagree with that Court decision, but…

After reading the article, I asked for a copy of the OECD report, and it is a somewhat technical but important insight into our deficiencies. Let me give a few quotes from the report: A perplexing feature of the US development assistance…

this is word-for-word the amendment that the Presiding Officer offered in our Labor and Human Resources Committee, a very thoughtful amendment, which says we will permit the Federal Government to establish these standards, and if there is…

But I would point out that when we had what was called a war on poverty--which was really not a war on poverty, but at least a battle against poverty--we ended up at one point with 16 percent of the children of America living in poverty…

Sunday's New York Times has an article entitled ``Poll Finds American Support for Peacekeeping by U.N.,'' written by Barbara Crossette. It is a poll conducted of 1,204 people by the Center for International and Security Studies at the…

I visited the American University in Beirut long before I was a Member of Congress and was favorably impressed by what they did. The stunning statistic, which I had never read before, that there were 19 American University in Beirut alumni…

I am pleased to speak on the Daschle amendment. Let me just comment briefly on the observations of my friend from the State of Oregon. It is true that the volume of Senator Kennedy's remarks does not necessarily mean that there is virtue…

Yes, Mr. President, I thank my colleague for yielding. If I may, this will sound like a politician talking when I say I think Senator Conrad and Charles Krauthammer each has a very valid point. The point that Senator Conrad makes that we…

I want to have a line-item veto that I can vote for. I also agree with Senator Stevens that we ought to be looking not only at appropriations, we ought to be looking at tax breaks. I personally would like to give the President, in theory…

Frankly, we cannot have it both ways. The American people are, more and more, demanding some kind of health care protection. I had three town meetings a week ago Saturday in Illinois. One man got up at one town meeting and said, ``I am 59…

let me talk about the other issue that is before us and that is striker replacement. In every Western industrialized nation with four exceptions permanent striker replacement is illegal. The exceptions are Great Britain, Hong Kong…

If there is anything irrational--and he will disagree with my next statement--if there is any illustration that shows why we need a balanced budget amendment, we would not be considering tax cuts right now in both political parties. If we…

let me speak briefly on both the Taiwan situation and the North Korean situation. I am pleased to cosponsor the concurrent resolution of Senator Murkowski. I commend him for his leadership on this. We ought to maintain a good relationship…

let me comment also on the North Korean situation. When Senator Murkowski and I were in North Korea in December, we landed with the first official American plane to land in North Korea since the Korean war. It is important that both the…

let me say first that I agree with three-fourths of what my colleague from North Dakota has just said. First, I think it makes absolutely no sense to be talking about a tax cut now. I think it is just absolutely irrational. It politically…

Mr. President, let me comment again on the amendment that is before the Senate. It is very easy to forget we are talking about people, real people who are struggling for a living when we talk about people who go on strike. I just have been…

I agree with two-thirds of what my colleague from West Virginia has to say, and he knows I differ on the balanced budget amendment. I do believe, however, in the immediate choices that we face, one is a tax cut. I think it makes absolutely…

I say to my friend from Kansas that if she wants to go further and prohibit temporary striker replacement, I will support that endeavor. As a matter of fact, Quebec does that right now. Canada, as a whole, prohibits permanent striker…

I think the point made by the Senator from Massachusetts is absolutely valid. You can be a good, sincere person, but just not be a good replacement baseball player or person working in an airplane factory. I am going to be leaving the U.S…

I concur completely with my colleague from Connecticut. Foreign policy should reflect the national interest, not the national passion. Our policy in Cuba reflects the national passion, not the national interest. If the old leaders of the…

Yesterday's Washington Post, in an article by John Berry, "Dollar Keeps Falling Against Yen and Mark," quotes a Washington economist, L. Douglas Lee: "The way to address the problem is to do something to bring savings and investment closer…

Foreign economists say that Congress' refusal last week to pass a constitutional amendment that would have required a balanced budget by 2002 showed that Washington is simply not serious about putting its economic House in order. The…

this is an amendment that restores the National Security Education Act. This was introduced by our former colleague, Senator David Boren, and was cosponsored by Senators Nunn and Warner. It was signed into law by President Bush. Before he…

In Desert Storm, we sent 500,000 American troops over there, and we found we had only 5 people who could translate Iraqi military documents. The need for having knowledge in these areas is extremely important. My reason for being involved…