Cord Byrd

I assure the majority leader of my commitment to that effort. While we certainly will not be able to address all of the funding shortfall this year, I, too, am hopeful that we can find additional funds in conference to begin to address…

Can the leader tell me what would be required to offer the basic health services we promised to American Indians and Alaska Natives?

If the Senator would yield, in the words of Alexander Pope: ``Thou art my guide, philosopher, and friend.''

I prefer to use the Ku Klux Klan. We know what we are talking about there. If one wishes to look at the oath--I will say the oath of the Ku Klux Klan, and there are associate groups and affiliated groups. Women used to be in the Klan…

I am deeply concerned with that anomaly in the tax code known as the ``marriage penalty.'' However, I opposed the Hutchison amendment No. 659 because it would accelerate the marriage penalty relief in this bill at the expense of those…

I thank my friend, Mr. Jeffords, for his recollections of teachers. I remember a Miss McCone who taught history. And she asked me a question one day. I said: Huh? And I kept on studying. I was paying attention to my reading, and Miss…

I am glad that David McCullough, who is the right man for the job, is going to have this publication soon concerning John Adams, which leads me to say that knowing of David McCullough's interest in John Adams and knowing of John Adams'…

This amendment authorizes to be appropriated $100 million to enable the Secretary to establish and implement a program to be known as ``Teaching American History Grant Program'' under which the Secretary shall award grants on a competitive…

I support what the distinguished Senator is trying to accomplish. I think it is about time we let the States know they are going to have to do better; that they are going to have to measure up. I cannot, however, coming from a poor State…

I thank Senator Kennedy. I really have enjoyed my long service with the distinguished senior Senator from Massachusetts. I have learned a great deal from him, and I prize that friendship.

A chairman of any committee could be no more distinguished than the chairman of the Budget Committee. Anent the chairman's statement that what we are doing today is fully in accord with the intent of the Budget Act, I am saying that it…

That will mean then the vote-arama, which I do not like and I do not believe the distinguished Senator likes either, would occur. Whatever amendments there are, if Senators chose to call them up, they would have votes on them.

Absolutely. Moreover, that was a budget for 5 years. That was a 5-year plan in 1993. This is a 10-year plan. Additionally, the resolution was used in that instance to reduce deficits, not to increase them. Finally, my good friend from New…

The Senator will admit, will he not, that the Budget Committee did, in that instance, 1993, have a markup in the committee and then reported that measure out of the committee with a report? And I assume the minority was allowed to publish…

If it did, why doesn't the Senator, who admires that role model, wish to have a markup in the committee and report out a concurrent resolution on this budget?

I wish the distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee, however, had had a markup in the committee, as was the case when that peekaboo budget was sent up here in 1993.

Does not the Senator believe that the administration's foremost priority is a $1.6 billion tax cut?

I am here merely to express my support for the nomination of John Ashcroft to be Attorney General of the United States. I will not fall out with anyone else who differs from my views. As I say, I am not here to debate my views. I know what…

I presume to offer the majority leader a suggestion, what I would do if I were in his place. I would write to the President and urge that no such recess appointment be made, and put it in writing, make a record of it. Furthermore, if I…

I can only see through my own eyes, but I don't consider that to be too long a time to await the appointment of a Federal judgeship or any other office, unless it should be Secretary of Defense or perhaps Secretary of State. But it is…

As we prepare, in these last days, to go home for the Christmas holidays--and I suppose we include New Year's as well, at which time we will go into a new century. To all those who have been a part of perpetrating this colossal hoax on the…

I think we are all aware of the monstrous hoax that has been pulled upon the American people, the hoax that this year was the opening year of the 21st century. This year is the closing year of the 20th century. That is according to the old…

I have been involved in some discussions concerning one of the appropriations bills that remains to be acted on. I was listening to the debate here. I find that we are discussing, are we, the amnesty provision?

We were in very different times, and we were dealing with different personalities. He was a remarkable man, however. I thank the very distinguished senior Senator from New Mexico for his words.

I revere the Senator from New York. He came to the Senate in 1977. He went on the committee. What he has just said astonishes me--that he was asked to leave the room in this Republic-- ``a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.''