well, here we are again. For the 4th year in a row--the majority will take the House through the motions of attempting to pass a Constitutional Amendment requiring two-thirds supermajority of the House and Senate in order to pass a tax…

last year, the Republican leadership tried to thwart action on campaign finance reform. This year they are trying it once again. Why? Because they know it will pass the House on a bipartisan vote, because they fear public pressure will…

I am pleased to introduce, with Senators Abraham, Robb, Helms, and Feingold, the Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act. This bill, if enacted, would eliminate the requirement for Federal agencies to purchase products…

The issue we have been discussing here this morning is whether or not we can work out with the Russians a modification of the ABM Treaty such as to permit us to deploy what is admittedly covered now by the treaty, namely a limited National…

To my good friend from New Mexico, I say there is no prohibition in this bill against them using the regular procedures. So it is my assumption they would use those procedures given the absence of any prohibition. Secondly, the word…

what is intriguing is, in fact, we did assert our position relative to the correct demarcation line, and indeed we put it in law, and indeed the demarcation line which was adopted by this administration and Russia followed what we had put…

I would agree that the bill as it now stands, with an amendment which adopts as a policy of the United States to continue to negotiate arms reductions with Russia, is indeed going to be an incentive to those discussions because it no…

let me just thank the Senator from New Mexico. He has raised a very important issue which was the subject of major discussion at the Armed Services Committee the other day; that is, the importance that any weapon system, before it is…

First of all, I want to emphasize the facts are clear that there was a surge of steel imports. This first chart shows the imports of hot-rolled steel from all countries. If my colleagues look at 1996 and 1997 and 1998, it becomes clear…

I did. I believe that our leaders have denied such an agreement with Mr. Gorbachev, and we would be happy to dig up the difference relative to that.

I think those negotiations began just a few weeks ago. And I was urging the administration in the middle of last year to begin those discussions and those negotiations. So the actual preliminary discussions I think began in February. As…

The discussions between us and the Russians relative to the demarcation line, for instance, between a theater missile defense and strategic defense, the defense against strategic missiles has, indeed, been going on a long time.

the amendment of Senator Landrieu that is pending is a very simple and a very straightforward amendment, but it is a vital amendment. It will make a major difference in this bill, because if this amendment is adopted, this bill will…

just a couple of additional brief points. First, there is one thing we do agree on, I hope unanimously, in this body, which is that our highest priority is to defend the security interests of the United States. I do not know of anybody in…

I share the goal of providing the American people with effective protection against the emerging long-range missile threat from rogue states. I support developing an operationally effective, cost-effective limited national missile defense…

I was in Bosnia 4 years ago as cochair of a House delegation, and there were three clear lessons from that trip. Number one, there is a U.S. national interest in preventing an outbreak of major conflagration in the Balkans. We should not…

I introduce today legislation to repeal the Jones Act waiver contained in last year's Coast Guard Authorization bill for the vessel Columbus. Mr. President, I had serious objections to a provision in last year's Coast Guard Authorization…

On Friday, an amendment was offered to the Ed-Flex bill to block implementation of certain regulations which the banking regulators had proposed for financial institutions to establish Know-Your-Customer programs. That amendment is still…

Rosa Parks is truly one of this Nation's greatest heroes. Her personal bravery and self-sacrifice have shaped our Nation's history and are remembered with respect and with reverence by us all. Forty three years ago--December 1995--in…

In January, 1998, Michigan moved to lower the poverty threshold statewide from the 50 percent poverty level in title I to 35 percent. Would either the Wellstone or Kennedy amendment prohibit Michigan from continuing to allow these waivers…

last week the Defense Department and the Congress lost the services of an outstanding public servant when Sandi Stuart stepped down as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. For the last six years, beginning in 1993…

As a member of the Senate Small Business Committee and cosponsor of this legislation, I am pleased the Senate is acting expeditiously on S. 314, the Small Business Year 2000 Readiness Act. Making affordable government guaranteed loans…

I thank the Chair for the responses to those inquiries. The fact that this bill violates the Budget Act in so many different ways helps to demonstrate the stark fact that there could be serious consequences from taking up this bill as we…

hopefully, we will soon be voting on final passage of S. 4, the military pay and benefits bill. This bill would significantly improve the pay and benefits available to our troops and help address the military recruitment and retention…

let me congratulate our good friend from Minnesota for this amendment. This is a very, very, perceptive amendment. What he is doing here is requiring that the Comptroller General make a study in a report to the Department of Defense on…