Cord Byrd

I want to comment on two very distinguished Senators from Georgia, Senator Richard Brevard Russell and his successor, the very able Senator Samuel Augustus Nunn. On January 24, 1996, I had the great pleasure of taking part in the…

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…

I think of an old fable about two frogs. They both fell into a churn that was half filled with milk. One of the frogs immediately turned over, gave up the fight, and perished. The other frog kept kicking until he churned a big patty of…

the Senator from Michigan is a man of great tenacity and perception and love for the Constitution and for him to deliver remarks on my behalf, he certainly has brightened my day. I am very grateful.

I shall quote Lord Byron: A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust. Mr. President, let me explain my motion now for the benefit of Senators on both sides. Mr. President, in offering this motion to…

I take this occasion to congratulate the distinguished Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens], and the other Members of the Senate who were conferees. As I sat and listened to him as he has outlined the changes that were brought within the bill…

Let us speak plainly. This bill changes the existing process the President uses to rescind, or terminate, appropriated funds. That process takes place after the President signs a bill into law. It does not operate when he is signing a…

I just speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know. Mr. President, the Senate is on the verge of making a colossal mistake. The distinguished Senator from New Mexico was correct when he spoke of this measure as being a…

Mr. President, I thank the distinguished Senator for his customarily gracious and courteous remarks concerning me. I wish to respond in kind by saying that, although I adamantly oppose the measure which the distinguished Senator from…

S. 1594 is a comprehensive attempt by the Senate Appropriations Committee to bring before the Senate, in a timely manner, all of the pending fiscal year 1996 appropriation issues. By that, I mean that this bill not only would fund the five…

I congratulate B.G. Wright, who has served on my staff as a Fellow from the Army National Guard, for this promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. B.G. has been a very active member of my staff for the last year, handling a variety of issues in…

as a Senator who has witnessed the services that have been rendered to our country by this very remarkable American and extraordinarily remarkable Senator, I wish to add just a few words about Samuel Augustus Nunn. He is the second…

I am pleased to endorse this treaty, which will substantially reduce the nuclear threat that has hovered for so many years like a dark cloud over both the United States and Russia. The START II Treaty builds on twenty years of arms control…

I share with him a concern about the situation that has developed in which the Senate at least for a time is being deprived of its right to amend, in essence it is being deprived of its right to amend. We do not have to agree to that. But…

I oppose the provision added to the fiscal year 1996 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill in committee that would prevent any funds appropriated in fiscal year 1996 from…

over the past number of weeks, we have witnessed a great deal of saber-rattling and speculation over the question of whether Congress and the President can avoid a Government shutdown, called, metaphorically, a train wreck, on October 1…

one definition given for the word ``ethics'' by the Random House Dictionary is--and I quote--``The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to…

the amendment that I offer addresses immediate safety concerns associated with the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory. The Allegany Ballistics Laboratory is the leading producer of tactical missile propulsion systems and conventional warheads…

Walt Whitman said that man is a great thing upon the Earth and through eternity but that every jot of the greatness of man is enfolded out of woman. Shakespeare, in King Lear, tells us that 'Women will all turn monsters.' In the book of…

I say to the Senator, this is the bottom line: If we pass this bill and it becomes law, the Appropriations Committee will have $6 billion more in budget authority and $3 billion more in outlay for the 1996 appropriations bill, which will…

If the Senator will yield, nobody in the Senate believes more than I believe in the freedom of speech in the Senate, and in the right to debate, and the right to stand on one's feet and speak as long as one has breath. I have fought that…

I do not have the floor. I am on the Armed Services Committee, and I got rolled a couple of times in the committee yesterday. The Republican side in that committee is voting in lockstep. They are unanimous, and there is no way that 10…

I fully support the statement made by the chairman of the committee. If I had my way about it, I would change this conference report in a few particulars, at least. I am only one. We have been down this road, now, twice. We spent many…

wait until the Senator sees the bills that are going to come to this floor if this bill dies. Wait until the Senator sees the cuts that are going to be made if this bill dies. The cuts that are going to be made in the 1996--the Senators…

I rise to commend Scott Bates, our legislative clerk, on his outstanding 25 years of service to the U.S. Senate. Scott Bates began his career in Washington as a summer intern in the bill clerk's office under Senator John L. McClellan's…