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My question was based on the statement that I understood the Senator to say earlier that her amendment was not typed up; it was just in handwriting. My question was, is she aware that an amendment does not have to be typed, that it can be…
Mr. President, our United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Kantor, this morning announced a pair of initiatives regarding our trade relations with Japan for which he is to be commended and which deserve the strong support of this…
Japan simply cannot kick the habit of a closed automotive market, that is the antithesis of free trade. It is not clear as to whether the Japanese will return to the negotiating table with a changed position, or whether Japan's automakers…
Section 301 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires that on or before April 15 of each year the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on…
recently I received a letter from a Dr. Wayne M. Miller of Killeen, Texas. The letter was in reference to my recent eulogy for the late and beloved Senator John Cornelius Stennis. Dr. Miller wrote that he was deeply moved by the tribute…
America's trading relationship with Japan is now reaching a historic, serious phase in what has been a long history of innumerable initiatives and negotiations to gain access for American products into her market. Strong action will very…
I call the contract misnamed because so many Senators on both sides of the aisle claim never to have signed it, and many Americans have no idea what it is, much less any idea of its various provisions. The term ``contract'' is usually…
Mr. President, although this amendment only directly affects workers involved in Government contracts, there is a deeper principle--a principle which goes to the rights of other workers to act in concert-- in other words, to strike--to…
On that point, let us stay with that point. I was majority leader when the Governors and the mayors of the country came to Washington with their hats in their hands and their hands out.
I saw those lovely pictures of the Senator's grandchildren, and we all love our grandchildren. I have been loving my grandchildren for almost 30 years now. But if we really want to do something for those grandchildren, those two lovely…
I say to the Senator, the Congress has cut the Presidents' deficits. Since 1945, over that period of 50 years, Congress has appropriated something like $200 billion less than the accumulated budgets that have been requested by the various…
I have many reasons for opposing the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. I am not against amending the Constitution. I have voted for five amendments to the Constitution since I have been in the Senate.
There is not only a Federal fiscal deficit but there is also an investment deficit. I was at the 1990 summit with Mr. Bush and with the Republican leadership and with the Democratic leadership in both ends of the Capitol. I said at the…
Oh, I like the word discipline. I like it. I like the word discipline. I have no problem with the word discipline. Let us discipline ourselves now. Let us not wait until we garble and scar the Constitution waiting on some magic discipline…
I hope that Senators will stop whining and weeping and bemoaning that vote. Let us get on with balancing this budget that they want so much to do. Let us get on with doing something for our children and grandchildren, which the Senators…
No, I am not ready to yield just yet. Let us say we are against tax cuts; just vote them both down. This is no time to talk about tax cuts while balancing the budget. We are all concerned about budget deficits. We are concerned about…
Yes, I was here when the Reagan administration blew into town. And in all of the 39 previous administrations--182 years of administrations under various political parties--the Nation had accumulated a total debt of less than $1 trillion. I…
It is folly to cut taxes in this climate. It is folly, whether it is my President advocating it, or whether it is the so-called Contract With America. It is silly. I cannot look my grandchildren in the eye and say ``Well, I am for cutting…
On that point--Mr. President, I have the floor--on that point about the States, the States do not balance their budgets in the sense that we are talking about balancing the Federal budget. The States have operating budgets. The States have…
may I suggest to both of my good friends, the Senator from Idaho and the Senator from Illinois, why do we not just quit talking about the balanced budget amendment and get on with balancing the budget? The President has proposed an $83…
I do not know when we are going to stop breaking the mirror in the Alice in Wonderland story. The Senator says we passed--we passed in 1993--the greatest tax increase. No, ``we'' did not pass it. Not a Senator on that side of the aisle…
this morning, we heard the Reverend Dr. Richard C. Halverson offer his last prayer before the Senate. Dr. Halverson has been an inspiration for all of us over these many years, throughout which we have been blessed by his friendship, his…
The framers saw a need for amendments at some point in time, so they provided a way to do that in the Constitution itself. But I am opposed to amending the Constitution to write fiscal theory into it, fiscal policy. I am also opposed to…
on that point, may I say to my friend, he does not need to instruct me about going to West Virginia. When he says he is going to Oklahoma where ``real people are,'' he does not have to travel that far. West Virginia is within an hour and a…
I did not say anything about the Senator. I was saying I was majority leader once. I was majority leader twice, and I saw the Governors of the States and mayors. I talked with them on the telephone. They called me on the telephone. They…
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