Paul Coverdell

I also thank Chairman Bond for including S. 925, the Women's Small Business Programs Act of 1997 that I introduced earlier this year, in the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997. My proposal will expand the pool of resources…

I am only going to speak to this amendment briefly. Let me just say that, at the appropriate time, it will be discovered that this is a rather broadly based amendment to deal with food safety. The amendment includes provisions for funding…

I am today introducing the Double Postage Rule Elimination Act of 1997. This legislation will protect consumers by eliminating the double postage rule under which the Postal Service requires its competitors to charge above market prices…

The city of Atlanta and Hartsfield International Airport have requested a $150 million letter of intent, commonly referred to as an LOI, from the FAA in connection with the construction of a commuter runway. Atlanta's Hartsfield…

I have just returned from my home State and I can certify that the issue of a balanced budget act and tax relief is on the minds of a lot of Americans. Everywhere I went, whether it was stepping out for lunch or meeting with various…

we had a very unfortunate story appear in the Washington Post this morning by Helen Dewar. The first paragraph: President Clinton had ``some choice words'' about the pace of Senate action on administration nominations during a Wednesday…

the certification process is not perfect. The Foreign Relations Committee has committed to hearings on this. That is the appropriate venue to discuss it. We should not suspend the process without the new place to go or the new system being…

I will not be supporting the Dodd- McCain amendment, but I wanted to make several observations about the situation we are facing this evening. First, I want to commend Senator Dodd of Connecticut for his extended interest in this subject…

I am opposed to that and have so stated and have so advised the Secretary of Defense. I do not believe there should be another Base Realignment Closure Commission until the administration can certify to the Congress that all the work of…

When you talk about savings, in my judgment, the force that has more to do with destroying savings is Uncle Sam. When something marches through an average person's checking account and takes over half, as they do today--a 45-percent tax is…

I have been a vigorous supporter of your efforts to fulfill the BRAC recommendations to the Congress, the President, and the Nation, which called for there to be three logistic Air Force bases. Your efforts are to fulfill that…

One last comment. It is my understanding that the total number of jobs in the two bases that BRAC asked be closed were 33,000 at the time of the recommendation and today, almost 2 years later, it is 31,000.

As the cold war fades into memory, our foreign affairs establishment must aggressively target and confront the new threats facing America. The crime and violence sown by international narcotics mafias requires a new thinking and focus…

it is with great pleasure I come to the floor today to speak about a distinguished colleague and dear personal friend, Senator Strom Thurmond. I, like so many American citizens, have admired the senior Senator from South Carolina for his…

It is sort of ironic that this Monday afternoon we are beset with Presidential vetoes or threats to veto. He has indicated that he will veto the Family Friendly Workplace Act if it includes flextime, which is what I think most of us feel…

Getting the emergency relief where it needs to go, protecting its ability to do its work, is in the President's hands now because Congress--particularly here in the Senate, but the House as well--has sent a broadly based, broadly agreed-to…

I have been arguing for the better part of 2 years now that when we talk about American culture and what is happening in the American family, we tend to point fingers to who is causing the trouble, and Hollywood gets a pretty good dose of…

Is it not the Senator's understanding that the emergency appropriations Congress passed and sent to the President last week was voted for by the Senate majority leader?

My point is, how much more bipartisan? We don't see that happening here very often. So the emergency relief and all of its provisions, the guarantee you talk about to keep the Government from shutting down, was voted for by the leadership…

You have argued for the need in the new modern workplace for the flexible time and what it does to morale and conflicting schedules, and you said you would not be for this if it was not voluntary.

not only is it voluntary, but the legislation has strict procedures to guarantee that it is voluntary, and there would be ramifications of severe proportions if an employer were to do anything other than make it voluntary.

for the next 15 minutes or so, since we are talking about vetoes, I would like to talk about the Family Friendly Workplace Act, S. 4. This is a piece of legislation that has been authored by the good Senator from Missouri, Senator…

I have been reading--the Senator wasn't present through all of it-- from the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, the great article that talks about the rigors and stress in the workplace. And it says, ``Effects of Economic Changes on…

the issue embraced by this amendment is simple but important. In too many schools across our Nation the focus for our children is not on education but survival. Just 2 days ago, as I read from the Washington papers, four teenagers were…

recently the Senate has made strong statements promoting efforts to fight against teenage drug use. Programs to mobilize America's parents are desperately needed in these efforts as we struggle to deal with a rising epidemic of teenage…