Cord Byrd

It takes guts to vote against it because the great majority of the American people have been bamboozled about this amendment. They support this, and they are very much in favor of it. So it takes guts to vote against it. Why does the…

Except the Constitution, if one-fifth indicate that they want to vote. That doesn't happen often. That is very seldom on raising the debt limit. That is very seldom on passing the final budget here.

The Senator speaks of guts. It doesn't take guts to vote for this thing. It takes guts to vote against it.

Well then, why are we going to wait 5 years to do something better if the Senator has something better?

What about all the Senators coming to the floor and saying the sky is falling, debt is bad, interest on the debt is bad, deficits are bad, and we have to do something about it and take the burden off our children, and vote for a balanced…

I marvel at his equanimity, his characteristic, and his never-failing courtesy. This is the way he has always been with me. But I must say that, notwithstanding that, I am amazed to hear the distinguished Senator stand on the floor this…

The Congress shall enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation. So we are going to continue to enforce it. We are going to continue to operate under a statutory system. That is what I am saying. We have been operating…

There will not be any different system because the Congress itself will enforce that amendment by appropriate legislation.

May I ask the distinguished Senator, who is going to be the judge of whether an estimate has been rendered in good faith, whether it is a responsible estimate, or whether there is a reasonable estimate?

Would the Senator explain to me why the Judiciary Committee, in its analysis of section 6, took the pains to explain that "estimates," for example, "means good faith, responsible, and reasonable estimates made with honest intent to…

I rise today to introduce a critically important measure to ensure that sufficient funds will be made available over the next six years to complete the Appalachian Development Highway System by the year 2003, some 38 years after the…

I have never known any majority leader or minority leader to transgress upon the confidence of the membership in giving its acquiescence to the request. It is just that I thought there could be such a situation. I thought we ought to try…

I have been greatly troubled by it, as I am sure other Senators have been. Napoleon--who is not particularly one of my idols--and Josephine had a child on March 20, 1811. And when he was told by the doctors that the infant or the mother…

Wonderful, wonderful. May I say to the new child: Once in thy father's arms, a new born child, thou didst weep while those around thee smile; so live that in thy lasting sleep thou mayst smile while those around thee weep.

He has thrice tasted the experience of immortality. He is living on a new plateau. What is the new child's name?

I think we ought to have a vote and let that record be there for all to see in the future. Let me ask a question without losing my right to the floor, Mr. President. Does the distinguished Senator from Arizona know of any other bill…

The House has included a provision which would set up an artificial ratio of humanitarian aid relative to Azerbaijan and its region of Nagorno-Karabagh. Such ratios have no precedent in the delivery of humanitarian aid and are clearly…

On the matter of Azerbaijan, I understand that the House included a provision which would imply separate legal status to Nagorno-Karabagh, a region of Azerbaijan. The international community, through the Organization for Security and…

In a few days, this fair city will throw its annual birthday party. Truly, the Independence Day celebration here in the Nation's Capital, is like nowhere else in the country. It is larger, louder, and features a fireworks display to amaze…

Letting go of those whom we love is one of the most trying experiences, if not the most trying experience, in human existence. But looking back over a road of 78 years, it seems to me that much of life is about the seemingly simple process…

This budget resolution cuts discretionary budget authority over the next 6 years by $356 billion and outlays by $295 billion. My amendment adds $106 billion in budget authority and $65 billion in outlays to pay for programs like crime…

People may restrict themselves, but here we are talking about an amendment that restricts the people from exercising their own good judgment as to selecting for additional terms men and women who have served them honestly and well. So we…

The Senator is preeminently correct. It is a very undemocratic amendment. It is saying to the people: You are not smart enough to make a choice, so we are going to put into automatic pilot the limitation on the service of your Senators or…

I am simply saying that Members who are elected to the Senate for a second term, under the pending constitutional amendment, could--and in some instances would, human nature being what it is--tend to forget their constituents, the people…

Mr. Samuels eloquently points out just one of the many concerns this country could very well face with the adoption of this legislation. He focuses on what might happen should our two-party system dissolve and allow for a rogue individual…