Max Cleland

The Persian Gulf illness question is one that continues to baffle those of us who try to deal and struggle with it, but it certainly baffles the members of the military family that served in the Persian Gulf. Those personnel deserve…

Mr. President, without the legislative authorization to increase military pay approved in this bill, the pay raise would be limited to 2.3 percent at the same time you have Federal workers who receive a pay raise of at least 2.8 percent…

The Senator is eminently correct. Without the bill, the services will be prohibited from actually reducing personnel, which is called for in the Quadrennial Defense Review, and the services will be forced to add personnel that they have…

Senator Coverdell and I are both supporters of the line-item veto to reduce wasteful spending. But the basis for the veto, as the Senator from Arizona indicated, must be prescribed and must rely on the facts, not on false assumptions…

I hope, along with my distinguished colleague, Senator Coverdell from Georgia, that the Senate will override the President on this matter and make sure that this vital operational facility is present at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia to…

I say to the Senator, you and I both sit on the subcommittee. That point is well-taken, that regardless of some of the aspects of this issue, which can be kind of arcane, when you start talking about air logistics centers, the bottom line…

I say to the Senator, I am a newcomer to this basic issue here, but you have been involved from the beginning of the BRAC process, all the way through. Was it your understanding when this process was set up to close bases, that that was…

I ask the Senator, is it your understanding, if this privatization in place policy stands--of course, the bill reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee does not prohibit privatization. It just prohibits this policy which has…