unless there is a resurrection that occurs here, talking in metaphorical terms, there is no possibility that the President will sign the bill with your amendment in it or not--zero, none, no possibility. I have been told that by the White…

I will be very brief. First of all, this is not about midnight basketball. That is a great thing to talk about. The States are not using this for midnight basketball. Let me tell you what they are using it for, to give you one example. I…

I have a second issue. I do not want to confuse the Senator. There are two amendments: One, the Biden amendment referred to earlier was debated yesterday. That amendment has a number of offsets in it which we discussed for 2 hours…

I know that this amendment was accepted by voice vote, but I just want to note for the Record that I oppose it. This is not the type of micromanagement that the Senate should be engaged in. The Judiciary is an independent branch of…

I rise to point out that the most important change in the Commerce-Justice-State appropriations bill just happened in the most quiet of ways. The Senate has just restored the funding for next year's installment of the 100,000 COPS Program…

Stemming the tide of frivolous prisoner lawsuits is certainly an important goal. Our courts are flooded with lawsuits brought by prisoners. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that in fiscal year 1994, 39,100 Federal and…

I stand here to pledge my support for the amendment offered by my colleague, Senator Domenici, which preserves the Legal Services Corporation. This organization has been both efficient and effective in providing legal services to the poor…

First, it reinstates two-thirds of the money for drug courts, mandatory drug testing, drug treatment backed up by certain punishment for 55,000 offenders now on probation. They would all be put into this program. It provides for two-thirds…

The way the Judiciary Committee has operated for the roughly 20 years, I guess, that I have been on it is that the investigative staffs of the majority and minority work together and share all information. I wish to inform my friend from…

I agree with the Senator. Maybe he could make that very compelling speech to Mr. Gingrich so we can actually pass the terrorism bill instead of him holding the terrorism bill up that we--the Senator from Oklahoma and I--worked so hard on…

I think of all the facts that affect women in this Nation as a consequence of violence, the thing that surprises me, that surprises most Americans most often are the following: That family violence is the No. 1 cause of injury to adult…

Let me respond to the Senator, if I may. I have not seen today's Times-Picayune. However, it is not unusual for staff, as well as Member of the Senate, to have different perceptions of a given situation but I am not sure that is relevant…

that is a legitimate question. Let me respond to that--the way we do in every such case. The standard operating procedure is, if we get something that even has the potential color of conflict, the majority and the minority get together…

The answer is no, if in fact the chairman of the committee, the ranking member of the committee and other members who had that information made available to them did not reach that conclusion. I am confident that I could find in the…

if I can respond, we did make that inquiry and reached a totally different conclusion than the Senator from Mississippi. Again, let me make clear why. First, there was no question. The records were public documents. The issue was whether a…

I am the one who was reluctant to enter into a time agreement and/or a formal agreement on the motion to recommit. It is fully within the right of the Senator from Mississippi to do that. The reason I did not wish to do that is that it…

I respectfully suggest, if the Senator looks at what the law says, what the court had said and what was before Judge Dennis, the matter that concerns him most, as it should, was resolved.

I know there is no agreement. What I am asking, does the Senator know of anyone who would have an interest in not allowing us to get to a vote today?

let me make a few points before I respond to the specific concerns of the Senator from Mississippi. One, it is true that, to the best of my knowledge, only myself and Senator Hatch have availed ourselves of the investigative report done by…

I offer this amendment to restore $75 million in funding for the Justice Department programs contained in the Violence Against Women Act, and I am pleased that many of my colleagues, including Senator Gramm of Texas and Senator Hatch of…

Mr. President, in order to restore every single piece of the Violence Against Women Act funding, there is a requirement that would be required that we would have to have had $76.7 million. Just to give my colleagues an idea what I mean…

one of the things that is deficient, in my view, about the legislation before us--and I will shortly send an amendment to the desk about it that I think we have worked out--and that is, in fairness to my friend from Texas, the chairman of…

I thank the Senator. I was just curious. I would point out to him that in the Federal prison system, we stopped fooling around-- unlike the State of Oklahoma or the State of Delaware and other States--we stopped fooling around like many…

I rise today both to congratulate the Clinton administration for having taken the lead in the search for peace in the former Yugoslavia and, at the same time, to offer words of caution, even warning. Mr. President, Benjamin Franklin once…

the Brown amendment to the welfare bill sounds good on the surface, and I suspect it will pass by a large margin. But, I will vote against it, and I want to explain why. The fact is, this amendment would be prejudicial to my State of…