I rise to offer a bill that I believe represents an important step forward in the fight against child abuse and crime. This legislation will make healthy families programs eligible for funding under the local crime prevention block grant…

Senator Gramm and I are now offering a substitute amendment to S. 1675, a bill originally offered in April by myself and Senator Gramm along with Senators Hutchison, Faircloth, Dorgan, Kyl, Shelby, Campbell, McConnell, Stevens, McCain, and…

I rise to introduce the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Control Act of 1996. This is the President's juvenile justice bill, and I am introducing it at his request. Over the last several years, a consensus has been building in our Nation, and…

I rise today to support the modifications to the amendment by the Senator from Colorado, the NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act of 1996. Mr. President, my principal modification is straightforward: it adds the Republic of Slovenia to the…

I know this is asking a lot, but let's just examine the logic of what is being said here. My friend from Utah stands up and says, ``Restore what we need to restore. Make the President do what he should do.'' What are we doing? The Senator…

I heard again, this time from our friend from Arizona, about the President's flagging effort on drugs and Bush up, Clinton down. Let's get the record straight. There was over $300 million more requested by the President for this very…

This administration since it came into office has asked for $801 million for this very purpose, and my good friend from Iowa knows the Republican Congress gave him $540 million. Now, I find it fascinating the Senator from Iowa stands up…

I believe I have 1 minute in support of this legislation. I said yesterday the Biden-Specter bill is a question of, is it better than the underlying bill? The underlying bill does the same thing the Senator just suggested that this bill…

I support random drug tests, and I have voted for random drug tests for welfare and food stamp recipients--as recently, in fact, as last May in Senate vote 133. But the big distinction between that and what Senator Ashcroft is proposing…

with the death of the Reverend Dr. Otis A. Herring on Friday, July 12, the Wilmington, DE, community--and indeed a much larger community of family, friends and faith--suffered a loss we can not help mourn. It is the loss of a husband and…

In offering this amendment with Senator Specter, the reason we offered it is I believe we have gotten off track on welfare reform. We need to return to bipartisanship on this issue and, quite frankly, on many others. This amendment is the…

I compliment my friend from Connecticut and our Republican colleagues. Mr. President, it was not too long ago--1990-- that we first put the child care health and safety standards in place. The Senator from Connecticut--who led the…

the story of our failure to foresee--and prevent--the crack cocaine epidemic is one of the most significant public policy mistakes in modern history. Although warning signs of an outbreak flared over several years, few took action until it…

I rise in support of the Bumpers amendment to the Defense appropriations bill. This amendment would save American taxpayers 234 million dollars by eliminating funding for six F/A-18C that the Pentagon has not requested. Mr. President, the…

We must never forget that America is a nation of immigrants, and that we must work together to protect their rights and dignity.

I believe that we have a responsibility to future generations to do all we can to protect our planet and its resources.

I believe that our diversity is our strength, and that we must celebrate it at every opportunity.

I believe that we have a duty to protect the most vulnerable among us, and to ensure that every American has access to healthcare.

We need to be investing in our youth, in their potential and their future.

We must never forget that our strength as a nation lies in our unity, in our ability to work together towards common goals.

I believe that we have a responsibility to support our nation's workers, and to create good jobs that pay a fair wage.

one wouldn't have thought that 40 years after the Montgomery bus boycott, 35 years after the freedom rides, and over 30 years after this Congress passed the most sweeping civil rights legislation in history--we would be on the Senate floor…

here we go again, Mr. President. Another chapter in the never ending effort to reform the way we finance political campaigns. I feel like I am driving a race car around a track and no matter how long and how far I drive, the checkered flag…

I rise today to deplore in the strongest possible terms the brutal assault last Saturday on former Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic. For more than 4 years, I have protested the bloody aggression by Serbia and its Bosnian Serb proxies…

First of all, the Republican-appointed Director of the Congressional Budget Office states in the latest CBO report--and I quote from the summary page: Both the Congress and the President, however, have proposed changes in policies that…