Cord Byrd

I don't, either. I don't think Congress would attempt to do that. But I think Congress has the power and has the authority to say there will be no more than 5,000.

Wasn't the President saying, in essence, that our troops should stay there until these benchmarks have been achieved? In essence, wasn't he saying that?

I have tried to carefully listen to the Senator's remarks, and I think I have heard the implication that Congress was somehow at fault in Somalia for the lack of supplying of heavy equipment.

I am grateful to the good people of West Virginia for trusting me with this honor for nearly 40 years now. I carry this title with great pride. Sometimes my constituents say to me, ``Do you ever get used to it?'' as they look about this…

No, treaties don't override the Constitution of the United States. Under the Constitution, treaties are a part of the law of the land, the supreme law of the land. They don't override the Constitution of the United States.

I thought I heard the distinguished Senator say that treaties override the Constitution of the United States.

As a Senator who is not a member of the conference committee but as a Senator who is, nevertheless, deeply committed to increasing substantially the size of our national investment in transportation infrastructure, I rise to urge the…

I thank the Senator for the very high degree of leadership that he has demonstrated in managing this bill. It was a difficult bill with a great number of amendments. And he has remained on the floor, worked hard, and demonstrated his…

The constitutional framework arranged by the framers speaks with crystal clarity regarding the war powers. The authority to initiate war rests solely with Congress, except for one narrow area, the defensive authority to repel sudden…

So as far as our amendment is concerned, all States benefit--not just West Virginia, not just Texas, not just Montana, not just Virginia--but that will be discussed at another point. I just want to stress that again.

Diogenes walked the streets of Athens in broad daylight with his lighted lantern. He was asked why. He answered, ``I am looking for a man.'' Plato, when visiting Sicily, was asked by Hiero, the tyrannical head of the Government, why he…

I urge the majority leader to be the ``Repairer of the Breach'' by calling up ISTEA now, so that we may be one step closer towards enacting the provisions called for in S. 1173 that would help accelerate the delivery of vitally-important…

Well, Mr. President, at last we have smoked him out. I have been speaking on this floor urging that the leadership bring up the highway bill. So we are having a good debate today. That is what we have been needing all along. The debate is…

I could deliver a very appropriate encomium. I could say many appropriate things with respect to the ability of the distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a great friend of mine. I have tremendous respect for his knowledge in the…

I compliment the Senator on the presentation that he is making and on his charts. It is amazing, when one contemplates that, if one were to count a trillion dollars at the rate of $1 per second, it would require 32,000 years to count a…

It is really difficult to comprehend how much a trillion dollars is. And the distinguished Senator has pointed to the trade deficit that our country has been running. And he said that up until the early part of the 1980's our country was a…

I thought it would be valuable for Senators to review a memorandum that evaluates in detail the representations made by Senators Chafee and Domenici in their ``Dear Colleague'' letter.

In a manner, this is just a continuation of the siphoning off of the legislative powers, as we saw in the Line-Item Veto Act. It was siphoned away. As a matter of fact, we just gave legislative power to the President. Aside from that…

The fast track means that the Senate and the House are supposed to bind and gag themselves and not talk and not offer amendments, is that correct?

The Senator has indicated that the administration wants to go out and negotiate additional agreements. What is to keep them from it? They have that authority now. They can go out and negotiate. They are negotiating now. There is nothing…

I agree that if this is going to be done, if we are going to have the line-item veto, let it be done the way the framers provided that it be done; namely, through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, not by statute. I don't think we can…

I can guarantee the Senator, I will never be in his State advocating that his people not vote for him, and if I'm up in his State, I will be glad to say what I have just said today about him.

I have seen some of the papers on the desks around here saying what this amendment purportedly will do. We Senators wanted to clear the record today to say that it will not do this and it will not do that and it will not do other things…

Now, I have discussed with the distinguished chairman of the committee, the need of the Appalachian corridor States for additional moneys, and that need hasn't been met by this bill. ... I feel compelled to do what I can for the…

George Washington took the viewpoint that he had to veto the entire bill or sign it or let it become law without his signature. He could not do it piecemeal. Now the Senate and House have made it possible for any President to do just that…