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today I rise to offer a sense of the Senate amendment to the concurrent budget resolution before us that sets our nation on the path to budgetary balance. This amendment addresses a practice that I believe is one of the most reprehensible…
we have today taken an important step to encourage more people to step forward and serve their communities as volunteers by removing the fear of unwarranted lawsuits against volunteers. Our adoption of S. 543, the Volunteer Protection Act…
Dear Senator Coverdell: Thank you for your letter regarding counterdrug cooperation between the United States and Mexico. I want to take this opportunity to tell you about my visit to Mexico and the efforts my Administration is making to…
Your legislation, which I have been proud to coauthor, and I commend the work of the Senator from Missouri, leaves the decision about what families need and don't need to the families, the workers themselves. The alternatives proposed--and…
my good colleague from Missouri, Senator John Ashcroft, recently introduced legislation that would provide increased opportunities for working parents to spend more time with their families without losing 1 cent in compensation. It is…
You can go camping. You might have an emergency you are dealing with. You might have a graduation. Again, the point I am making is the principal distinction, and it appears so often between our two sides, is that the legislation of the…
To the contrary. Imagine the hue and cry if the way we were to equalize this was to remove that option from Federal employees so that they would be treated like these other hourly workers. Talk about a hailstorm. They have enjoyed the…
I do think anything we can do that makes it easier for families to be in the workplace--we know they are under enormous duress today, with both parents working--anything we can do to make it more manageable for them we ought to do. Your…
now is the time to get serious about this, but it is your move. I urge the White House to get with the sponsor of S. 4, and let us find out where the common ground is. Senators Jeffords, DeWine, and Ashcroft are ready to work with you, Mr…
The people of America want flextime. Working women, mothers and fathers need the same flexible work schedules and comptime choices that Government workers, salaried workers, bosses and boardroom executives have enjoyed for decades. I am…
I am pleased that the two sides have decided to proceed to the actual legislation and to consider its merits straightforwardly. I was also pleased to be notified this morning that during the summit...Governors Branstad of Iowa, Whitman of…
Mr. President, I want to explain to our colleagues. First, I thank the ranking member, the Senator from Vermont, Senator Leahy. It has been a long week for both of us. He and his staff and colleagues have worked diligently with this…
I really do hope--this is not a long piece of legislation. It is 12 pages. I wish the staffs and Members would read it. I want to read this brief section, to respond to his comment: Exceptions to Limitations on Liability.--The limitations…
In other words, this has been in the process since before the emergency, so it is going to probably deal with Bosnia. I am just guessing, as I am not on the committee. Do you not have something dealing with our troops overseas in this…
Absolutely. It is not so much a case of the judgments. It is a case of the threat of the suit and what it can do to you. The best example is listed here where a man who is part of a rescue team rescued an individual who had fallen off a…
Let us look at the lineup here. I read a letter yesterday I have from Little League Baseball. You have the United Way, the Red Cross, the Navy League, the Air Force Association, the American Society of Association Executives. Who is on the…
I can say that the actions of his President, our President, are also unprecedented. An Executive order that totally rewrites labor law and obviates the Constitution is unprecedented and has no standing, in my judgment, in this debate--none.
We have heard that voluntarism is healthier than ever, we have millions of volunteers, and we do not need a bill to encourage voluntarism. That is simply not the case, clearly not the case. According to the Independent Sector report, the…
I did not expect the majority leader to invest the time, which I very much appreciate his having done, to frame the nature of the situation we have here. But, just to restate it for those who may be listening, in response to the summit on…
The supplemental is a vehicle by which we can help the flood; it is not a disaster supplemental.
My point is this. When we have a disaster, we typically use whatever vehicle is moving to deal with it. For example, in the great 500-year flood that we experienced several years ago in Georgia as a result of Alberto--and I believe we all…
Although we are getting closer, we might say, well, maybe if there are five more votes like the one today, we will finally end the debate; the bill being a very narrow, specific proposal that tries to respond to the call of the President…
I think there has been great discussion in this 105th Congress, I say to my colleague from Minnesota, about a bipartisan effort. That does require a give and take. Right now, it would appear that in several quadrants that is difficult to…
Unfortunately, volunteer service has become a high-risk venture. Our sue happy legal culture has ensnarled those selfless individuals who help worthy organizations and institutions through volunteer service. They try to do good and end up…
I have to say to him that evoking the Ku Klux Klan is something I would not have expected from him. It is demeaning. It is an inaccurate portrayal of the legislation. There is regional arrogance in the context of the Senator's statement…
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