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Mike Levin is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and reproductive rights during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies that promote access to in vitro fertilization and has emphasized the importance of bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
On behalf of Senators Leahy and Jeffords, I offer an amendment which would authorize $6.7 million for the construction of a combined support maintenance shop for the Vermont Army National Guard in Colchester, VT. I believe this amendment…
On behalf of Senator Harkin, I offer an amendment that would require the Secretary of Defense to initiate actions to eliminate or mitigate the need for some military families to subsist at poverty level standards of living.
One of the most cost-effective and successful defense programs that we have to reduce threats to our country and to enhance our national security is the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program that Senator Lugar and Senator Nunn started in…
Just quickly I want to say again about this 76 percent figure that the Republicans have used. It is at best a 5- year figure. One of the benefits of going to conference would be that the Republicans here will have to face up to the…
The National Governors' Association strongly supports allowing vocational education training to count toward meeting the work requirement under the welfare law. The current law allows a 12-month limit. The old requirement was 24 months…
Three points on taxes. I hope the Republicans will listen. The 76 percent for families less than $70,000 is based on 5 years, apparently. We have never seen the analysis. I challenge them, give us a 10-year analysis. They leave out the tax…
As I read the table summarizing the agreement, entitled ``Long Range Summary, 1997-2007,'' on page 77 of the committee print, there is an agreement regarding net tax figures for the years 1997 through 2002. The word ``agreement'' appears…
I ask these questions to reflect my concern that any tax bill produced pursuant to the budget agreement and this budget resolution not set in motion tax policies which will create large deficits in the next decade. Also, I strongly believe…
I want to comment on the independent counsel decision of the Attorney General. The Attorney General's obligation is to follow the law. It is not to respond to political pressure from whatever source. Now, over the last weekend, there were…
I want to join Senator Hatch in congratulating and thanking the Senator from Oregon for his persistence. Ms. Shea, we are delighted you are on the Senate floor with your dog. It is a historic day for the Senate. Senator Hatch has made the…
This lawsuit, we should be clear, tests a particular version of the line-item veto that is in that bill. What the court held, and what our lawyers argued, and what we feel passionately is that once the President of the United States…
I thank the chairman for that. Is it also the chairman's hope, or intention, that, where feasible, and I emphasize the words, ``where feasible,'' investigative interviews be conducted--I ask this question knowing that there will be…
I wonder if we can ask directly, the Senator, with this amendment, is not establishing any priorities between illegality and impropriety; is that correct? Either one would be within the scope, is that accurate?
Is the Senator from Virginia saying today that relative to the allocation of funds in Senate Resolution 54, the committee is then free to look at improper practices in the area of campaign financing? Is that what the Senator is saying…
What is in effect gives the Governmental Affairs Committee the power to look at corrupt practices, just as I read--I read from the exact same Senate Resolution that the good Senator from Virginia read that we have jurisdiction in…
Would that be true with other specific questions? So that what we will have when we vote will be the assurance of the chairman of the Rules Committee as to what his interpretation of the word illegal is in a general way but not a specific…
The question that I put to the Senator from Virginia is very important in terms of the future of this investigation, and his answer reasserting today what he said yesterday, which is that the jurisdiction of the Governmental Affairs…
I am very glad to hear that assurance from the Senator, that the intention of this resolution which he offered, that 'illegal' includes violations of law, including civil law or other law, and goes beyond violations of criminal law. That…
Is there any doubt that the committee has jurisdiction to look into improper activities under its broad jurisdiction--quoting the Governmental Affairs Committee jurisdiction--``to have the duty to study the efficiency, economy, and…
I think that is the likely outcome. We will know that. Is my friend from Virginia suggesting that the Governmental Affairs Committee does not have jurisdiction to investigate improper campaign activities?
With those assurances by the majority leader and the key members of the Commerce subcommittee who've been working on this bill, I can support this legislation. In the recently enacted, bipartisan Safe Drinking Water Act, we adopted a very…
I do not favor late-term abortions and believe they should only be allowed in cases where the life or health of the mother is threatened. I voted to sustain the President's veto because the bill does not allow a physician to take into…
Oh, no. May I make this very clear? No one knew that he was depositing checks in his own personal checking account.
The basis of the Senator's statement 10 minutes ago that the Justice Department leaked this, it seems to me, is not established by any factual evidence that he has provided.
Is it not true that when the Justice Department was asked for that prosecution memo by the House, it did everything in its power not to give that prosecution memo to the House, and, as a matter of fact, it was only after the House…
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