I join together with my colleague from Connecticut, Senator Lieberman, in recognizing the birthday of an individual with whom we are all familiar. Our constituent in Connecticut, Katharine Hepburn, will turn 90 on Monday. She probably will…

Ann Petry's father was a pharmacist who opened up a pharmacy in 1902 in Old Saybrook, CT. Although she learned the pharmacy trade from her father, her contribution, of course, was in literature. Her famous novel, "The Street," written in…

I just wanted to inform my colleagues that about a week ago, Congressman Chris Shays, of Connecticut, and I hosted a program called Debtbusters with a group of 200 of our constituents. We invited people to come together to sit down in…

As a former Peace Corps volunteer and someone who was a Big Brother and served on the national board of Big Brothers, I commend the effort to focus attention on this. I would like to make note of the fact, with the Philadelphia Conference…

Mr. President, yesterday I included some extensive remarks in the Record regarding the overall treaty. I let those remarks speak for themselves today. First, I begin by commending our colleagues, the chairman of the Foreign Relations…

Tomorrow, the 23d of April, will mark the 10th anniversary of a major tragedy in the State of Connecticut. It was April 23, 1987, that 28 workers in Bridgeport, CT, lost their lives at a place called L'Ambiance Plaza, a construction site…

let me briefly address these project labor agreements. Again, this is maybe confusing to some people because it sounds rather esoteric: Project labor agreement. There is nothing new about project labor agreements. They go back to the…

I offered the first child health care package almost 4 years ago to deal with children's health. As both of our colleagues have pointed out, Mr. President, we have about 10 to 10.5 million children in the country who do not have any health…

I commend them for their work in putting this resolution together. I am happy to have been a part of it. Even though I do not agree with every word in it, on balance I believe it is a very constructive approach to a very difficult problem…

I made the point last October when the allegations arose about the Democratic National Committee, Don Fowler, who is the chair of the DNC, and myself, asked the FEC to immediately conduct an investigation into these allegations. The FEC…

Mr. President, let me just briefly say, with regard to the resolution before us, as someone who appreciates the role of having a statute dealing with independent counsel, I, for one, along with others--and I am not alone in this…

Those who love and know the Senator knows he never fails to be instructive in his uniquely witty way. The Senator from Kentucky said one major reason he was not running again was because he did not want to spend the next 2 years raising…

I rise here this morning to introduce a piece of legislation which I have entitled the Better Financial Aid for Working Students Act of 1997. This legislation is designed, Mr. President, to assist America's working students to cope with…

I hope at this juncture the majority here would demonstrate leadership. The Budget Act requires that budgets be sent to the full Congress; that we then submit a budget, have our own budget here, that either duplicates the President or…

I am delighted to join him as a principal cosponsor of this proposal of the Genetic Confidentiality and Nondiscrimination Act of 1997. Mr. President, this legislation is critically important. It deals with basic concerns that people have…

I simply do not believe that it is appropriate to enshrine a restrictive fiscal policy in our Nation's most sacred text. The balanced budget amendment would seriously inhibit our ability to set prudent fiscal policy and respond to cyclical…

I rise with my dear friend and colleague, Senator McCain, to introduce legislation of vital importance to Americans who happen to be blind. Its purpose is simply to restore the Social Security earnings limitation for the blind to the same…

The language--I urge again my colleague to read it--I am not making the language up and writing the report language--says, ``in which a declaration of war is in effect,'' and, also, ``The provisions of this article may be waived for any…

If you are short of a conflict and try to get ready for it and try to get the votes to prepare for it, we have seen the debates that rage here.

Under this one section we are carving out a unique exception for the first time in the history of this country. Section 5 says adopted by a majority of the whole House and its Members. We exclude the Vice President in a 50-50 tie.

I say to my colleague. It is not a supermajority here. It is a dangerous precedent in my view. So on a 50 to 50 vote on whether we met the other standards would fail and the President of the United States would not be able to act. Let me…

This language is very clear. It is pointed at a very important situation that would be before us. And to suggest somehow this is a back-door attempt to fund spending programs on domestic issues, does my colleague really believe the…

The point I wanted to make, if my colleague will yield further, is that we are creating an unprecedented exception. The waiver provision--put aside the constitutional amendment. I am not debating that. I am debating this one section.

My question is, can my colleague from Utah cite a single example where a supermajority is not required, where there is a 50-50 tie, that the vote of the Vice President would be excluded in that situation?

I don't think this is easy, as you are suggesting it is. But you are putting a straitjacket, in my view----