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Senator Pell is a man of integrity. He is a man of ability. He is a man of dedication. We have all enjoyed serving with him. He served ably as the Foreign Relations Committee chairman some years ago and did a good job. We are going to feel…
this amendment would adjust the funding for civilian personnel under strength in the Air Force Reserve. The Department of Defense made an error in verifying the degree to which various accounts were overfunded. In response to my inquiry…
we accept the amendment as modified, and urge the Senate to adopt this amendment. I state for the Record that this amendment offered by the Senator from Michigan has been modified, and in accepting the amendment as modified, it is not the…
First, I feel that the conflict of interest provisions are consistent with past Senate efforts to eliminate agency-specific requirements that are no longer necessary. Second, the Sense of the Senate related to environmental restoration…
I want to just recall that in 1946, when I was Governor of South Carolina, the project was announced to build this plant in Aiken, SC, on the Savannah River between Georgia and South Carolina. I moved to Aiken to practice law. I guess I…
I rise to oppose the Reid amendment and point out to my colleagues that the Savannah River site has had the tritium production mission for over 40 years. Why change? The U.S. Government has invested heavily in a unique infrastructure at…
Through this amendment we have achieved what we and our cosponsors believe is a prudent balance between the need to focus the Department of Energy on the near-term manufacturing capabilities required for the nuclear weapons stockpile and…
I commend the Committee's decision to set a course for deployment of a National Missile Defense system to protect all Americans. Development of such a system is long overdue. I believe that such a deployment will actually enhance…
this month in Greenwood, SC, a terrible, sudden loss has been suffered by the entire community. On May 4, James C. ``Jim'' Self--successful businessman, committed public servant, concerned community leader, and dedicated family man--was…
James Boyd ``Jim'' Kluttz passed away last month at his home in Laurens, SC, and I would like to offer his family and many friends my deepest condolences for their heavy loss. A dedicated reporter, Mr. Kluttz served as editor emeritus of…
26 years ago, the Senate provided its advice and consent to ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT]. In considering the treaty, Chairman Fulbright prevailed on the Members of the Senate to ratify the NPT, because without…
last month the Senate debated the Defense supplemental appropriations bill. Although I supported this legislation, I expressed my dismay that the Appropriations Committee chose to fully offset the $1.9 billion supplemental from the fiscal…
I have often been critical of the Clinton administration's inept diplomacy that has produced one foreign policy debacle after another. But in this case the administration deserves credit for persistence in a very difficult situation. I…
President Clinton recently issued an Executive order to ban the use of permanent replacement workers during labor disputes involving Government contractors. The Secretary of Labor would have the responsibility to enforce the order by…
as we debate the Defense supplemental appropriations bill, I want to ensure that my colleagues and the managers of the bill are aware of some of the underlying problems with the way this supplemental was crafted. First let me say the…
I previously expressed my support for the confirmation of Mrs. Cox, General Davis, Admiral Montoya, Mr. Kling, Mr. Cornella, and Mrs. Steele to be members of the Base Closure and Realignment Commission. I want to reiterate that support and…
this has not been a good day for the United States. I cannot imagine any piece of legislation that could have been offered in the Senate which would do this country more good than this balanced budget amendment which was defeated today…
I want to commend the able Senator from Texas on what she has had to say about the Alamo. I am very pleased that South Carolina played a big part in that historic event. William Barret Travis, the commander at the Alamo, was born in…
the Senate is a place of great camaraderie and congeniality, and over the past four decades, I have been fortunate to have made a number of very good friends here. Regrettably, I rise today to memorialize one of them, Mrs. Lorna Simpson…
Today, we begin consideration of a proposed constitutional amendment to require the Federal Government to achieve and maintain a balanced budget. We are pleased that the House acted with wide bipartisan support as it adopted the balanced…
I was pleased to cosponsor S. 1, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, a bill to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local governments. This is an important piece of legislation, and I am delighted it…
I am very pleased to say a few words on behalf of the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. I have been in the Senate 40 years now and for 36 of those years I have favored a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. I…
over the past 10 years, the one individual who has been perhaps more closely associated with the new majority leader, Senator Bob Dole, than any other person is his former chief of staff, Sheila Burke. A graduate of the University of San…
there is no arguing that life on Capitol Hill is an interesting experience that provides a wealth of colorful stories. Each one of us knows about staffers who, after working together for years, end up getting married; or of young college…
people often talk about the good old days, when things were cheaper, life was simpler, and doctors made house calls. Up until this past December 30, there was at least one pediatrician in Northern Virginia, Dr. Harold Yates, who still…
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