The issue here is clear, opening up the Japanese markets to United States autos and auto parts. We are the free marketeers. The Japanese are the protectionists in this area. Yesterday the Senate passed overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis…

recently, the National Rifle Association issued a widely circulated fundraising letter over the signature of Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and that letter is full of questionable overheated language. I wish to focus on one…

it is with enthusiasm that I will vote today to confirm the President's nomination of John Deutch to one of our country's most important and difficult jobs, Director of Central Intelligence. As a member of the Senate Armed Services…

in this box is a part. It is a universal joint. I bought it on Main Street America yesterday, Main Street, Royal Oak, MI. It costs $11.47. In Japan, this part would cost over $100. What does it mean, this differential? It means fewer jobs…

this morning Samuel Pisar, a distinguished survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Leonberg, and Dachau delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of…

I intend to vote against the Abraham amendment to extend limitations on joint and several liability for noneconomic damages to all civil actions. The sponsors of this bill, and this amendment, have pointed out that there are problems with…

It was 10 years ago that Marcy Kaptur and I met with Japanese officials about opening their markets to United States auto parts. Imports then had less than 1 percent of Japan's protected market. Today, despite incessant American efforts…

as the United States-Japan framework negotiations in autos and auto parts accelerate over the next few weeks, I want to bring to my colleagues attention a New York Times op-ed by Thomas L. Friedman published on April 16. Mr. Friedman…

this bill is not mainstream. This bill is extreme. This bill will not respond to the dreams of Americans. It is going to turn out to be a nightmare if it were to pass. I was not here in 1981. I came here in 1983. I came here when Michigan…

the House Republican extremist express is headed into overdrive next week. The Republican welfare reform proposal is soft on linking welfare to work, which must be the linchpin of welfare reform, and it is hard on punishing children, when…

I will be voting in opposition to the conference report to S. 1, because the problems I had with the bill as it passed the Senate have not been resolved or abated in the conference report. I had hoped to be able to support legislation this…

I am pleased to offer today in behalf of Senator Cohen and myself the Federal Reports Elimination and Modification Act of 1995 as an amendment to the pending bill. Our amendment will eliminate over 200 outdated and unnecessary reporting…

I will vote against the McCain amendment to cut funding from the technology reinvestment project. I find this an unpleasant task because I am strongly in favor of full funding for environmental cleanup and restoration at closed DOD bases…

a friend of mine named Matt Urban passed away over the weekend, leaving a legacy of superlative achievement in a military career that will enlighten generations to come about what it means to be a soldier, a patriot and a hero. I would…

I wish to thank the Senators from Delaware and Arizona for the modification. It now makes it apply only to those reports which are filed annually, semiannually, or at other regular intervals, regular periodic intervals. It will not include…

I want deficit reduction and I am willing to work for it. That is why I supported the President's deficit reduction package in the last Congress. But while I have stood up for real deficit reduction, what I am not prepared to do is to…

I do not think we ought to have an open question in a constitutional amendment, because this is a life and death matter.

But the issue that I raise, the Senator from Maryland has raised, and the Senator from Utah has raised relates to that question. It is, what is a supermajority and whether the Vice President's vote counts? And on that one, I think 100 of…

It will, in fact, plunge this constitutional amendment into the courts to interpret as to whether or not the Vice President can break a tie. It should not be left open. It should be resolved in this amendment as to whether or not the Vice…

the key test of any welfare reform is how quickly and how effectively people on welfare move into work. The main objective must be not to penalize children but help put to work their custodial parent and hold both of their parents…

If my friend would again be willing to yield, obviously if we had adopted a constitutional amendment 6 years ago, or 60 years ago, which led to a balanced budget we would probably be in better shape than we are now depending on whether or…

No. But my question to the Senator from Illinois--by the way, it is not that clear. But assuming for the moment it is clear as to what is meant by ``publicly held debt,'' assuming for a minute it is clear--I do not think it is; I will…

I agree with that. We can interpret history, but we cannot change it. Part of the history of this body is that if we put the onus on future Congresses to do something instead of doing it ourselves, it is unlikely to get done. We pass…

The bottom line for me, Mr. President, is that this proposed constitutional amendment does not balance the budget. It dodges the issue because it depends on Congress passing implementation legislation by the year 2002. What if it were…

let me answer my own question since my friend from Illinois has not; that is, there is no limit that I know of in statute on the publicly held debt. So when the Senator from Illinois points to that provision as being the self-executing…