I am not being smart when I say this, but you, Senator Feingold are going to be here. The likelihood of that happening with you sitting here in this Chamber and with it sitting out there by itself is zero, unless all of a sudden you go…

This is just one paragraph from it. . . . the Board believes that a transfer of existing broadcasting support costs and personnel from USIA to the international broadcasting entity would be a ``cost neutral'' transaction within the foreign…

I admire the Senator's tenacity, and I admire his commitment to save the American taxpayers money. His tenacity on this score has exceeded his savings. Let me explain what I mean by that. He won. If this is about deficits, he won. He was…

It is remarkable, quite frankly, that we have made the progress that we have as rapidly as we have. I want to publicly thank the chairman, for we both stuck with this compromise notwithstanding there are individual amendments we would have…

How would the Senator's amendment pay our allies any more money than our mark, than this legislation does?

I get $107 million from the money the United Nations acknowledges they owe the United States for peacekeeping, and I get $27 million for money that the United Nations owes the United States for tax equalization.

You find it in acknowledgments. It does not have to be in the bill. They owe us $107 million for peacekeeping and $27 million for tax equalization. That is money the administration has to use to meet its obligations.

to state the obvious, there are no two Senators of whom I have higher regard than the two Senators who are proposing this amendment. We use those kinds of phrases around here, but I know they both know that I mean it. Now, I have a little…

I am acting in a bit of a dual capacity here. I am comanaging the bill that is before us. But in the meantime let me...thank him for the knowledge he has brought to this body as a former prosecutor, an attorney general in his State, and as…

I think the point my friend makes is a valid one. I don't think it was our intention to have this blanket exemption. As I understand the Senator's amendment--and, obviously, the chairman is checking this out himself for his position--from…

I want to make clear so that we all know, what we are talking about is the NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act, which was passed in 1996. Basically, what the act does, Madam President, as you well know, is that it says there are newly…

What is happening now, as I understand what the Senator is saying, is a very talented, hopefully ambitious, Foreign Service officer who may very well want the opportunity to have those positions filled--for example, the economic consular…

I, myself, am in the strangest position I have found myself in, probably, in the 25 years I have been here. I don't disagree with a single thing that my friend from Indiana has stated. Let me review the bidding, as I understand it, very…

last Thursday, 55 of us joined Senators Leahy of Vermont and Hagel of Nebraska in cosponsoring the Landmine Elimination Act of 1977. This landmark legislation will bar, as of January 1, 2000, the use of any U.S. funds for new deployments…

having recently returned from Paris and the signing of the NATO-Russia charter, I rise today to discuss what is one of the most important foreign policy questions facing the United States--and facing this body: The enlargement of the North…

I want to compliment my esteemed chairman, Senator Hatch, for forging a consensus on this complex issue. As my colleagues know, I was engaged in negotiations on the Chemical Weapons convention resolution of ratification for months, and I…

I want to commend President Clinton and congressional leaders on both sides for bringing before the Senate a balanced budget. I also believe that this budget goes a long way toward protecting the key priorities I believe must be protected…

I rise to condemn in the strongest possible terms recent comments that have been attributed to Mr. Freih Abu Medein, the Justice Minister in the Palestinian authority. In a May 17 article in the Washington Post, journalist Barton Gellman…

I supported and still support the partial-birth abortion bill. I voted for it in 1995 and voted to override the President's veto last year. The bill was a step in the direction of ending late-term abortions. But, it was not a perfect…

I would like to publicly comment and compliment the Senator from Mississippi. The truth of the matter is that this treaty would not be before the Senate today as a treaty without the efforts of the majority leader. The executive believed…

the Senate has always been served well by the talent of the Senator from West Virginia and, most importantly, in making sure that we do our job responsibly. I would make only one 20-second explanation of why I think this treaty got less of…

Yes, it is. If I may say, Madam President, to the distinguished leader, that in a November 25, 1996, memorandum for Alan J. Kreczko, Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, from Christopher…

Let me say, this all came about--and they are, obviously, as usual, very good, incisive and insightful questions. I think it is unnecessary because I think it is a given. But let me explain, in fairness, why we got to this point and why I…

The concern on the part of the majority was that the Clinton administration would use the Biden-Byrd language to justify sending a modification of a treaty for a two-House approval by majority vote rather than to the Senate for a…

Today marks the publication date of a remarkable compilation of letters from a remarkable man, imprisoned Chinese political dissident Wei Jingsheng. His book, "The Courage To Stand Alone: Letters From Prison and Other Writings," should be…