Sam Gejdenson

Professor Niering was an extraordinary teacher, a pioneer in the modern environmental movement and a great American.

I rise to express the sorrow felt by many across eastern Connecticut following the passing of Professor William A. Niering.

Tomorrow, he officially becomes Belarus' illegitimate president.

Regrettably, Lukashenka is not going anywhere.

Under the legitimate constitution of Belarus, President Aleksandr Lukashenka's term is scheduled to expire today.

I have heard some of the debate here. Some try to make it seem that this is a Clinton-era problem. It is hard to make that argument with problems that date back to 1982. Some of the Members who spoke on the floor said, oh, this is just…

Our intent with the resolution is simply to authorize the present campaign as it is presently being undertaken.

Happy 100th Anniversary, Electric Boat!

I know I speak for the entire community when I say 'Welcome Back, Mr. President.'

I believe President Lincoln would be proud of, and probably more than a little humbled by, the community's efforts to preserve an important part of the past.

The effort to purchase and preserve the banner demonstrates that pride in the community and our heritage is alive and well in America today.

The return of the 'Lincoln Banner' to Norwich brings the community full circle and closes an important loop in its history.

The story surrounding the discovery and restoration of this 138 year old artifact is a testament to the spirit of volunteerism and pride in our history.

I rise to commemorate a momentous event in the history of Norwich, Connecticut.

I hope the chairman could at this point release the chemical treaty while he is negotiating in the omnibus. The advantage of that, of course, is that this is an important thing that I think the chairman should if he does not, I think he…

I can guarantee you near Democratic support if it is a clean bill on the chemical treaty. If it has a number of other items on it, I am afraid we may not see that bill pass in this session. I think that would just be wrong. It is late in…

I hope that he will do everything he said here today to try to add funding. Clearly, the R&D function is woefully underfunded. And I would also hope that we would give the Coast Guard some latitude within its budget to move funds around as…

One has to wonder what motivates Speaker Gingrich to continually stop movement on HMO reform. Today in the paper again a 52-year-old father of five suffers and waits to get a liver transplant, and it is not approved until he is too ill and…

That system, which you condemn in public education and all these other forums, has the highest standard of living in the world, has the biggest economy in the world, is the idol of every other economy in the world. The countries that…

So my colleague wants to go back to the old system, which instead of cash will now be checks from a handful of rich people.

So how does a candidate who does appeal to really rich people, where does he get the resources to get heard? If the rich people can own the stock in the newspapers, if they can own the TV stations, and if they can write $10 million checks…

No. The American system has been a system that has tempered the free market to make sure that none of our citizens--

I would say two things. One is, I fundamentally disagree with two of the concepts of my colleague. One is that by making everything soft money, basically, under the proposal of my colleague, we could have unlimited contributions to…

Only those with enough money to buy the megaphone would get to speak. Yes, the rich would be heard. But the average person, he might be able to read about which rich person is being heard, but he could not express himself if the almighty…

What preceded this system that is bad and needs fixing was a ``cashocracy''. People came to Members of Congress and presidential candidates with bundles full of cash. I think that was a worse system. We are not perfect today, but we are…