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Mr. President, of course, the matter before the Senate is the Volunteer Protection Act which we had hoped would be a response to an historic bipartisan summit on voluntarism. The Volunteer Protection Act is designed to stop a circumstance…
The summit was about volunteers in America. This legislation is designed to protect volunteers in America. Imagine, if you would, Senator, what will happen when Little League Baseball and United Way and the American Red Cross can stand up…
I thought introducing that in an attempt to make some legitimate criticism of this legislation was inappropriate. I am appreciative that you would come with your legal background and point out, as I have tried to do--perhaps not as…
a news flash to President Clinton: In America, you do not get to rule by Presidential decree. President Clinton is prepared to provide the ultimate payoff to labor bosses, an Executive order that essentially mandates that Government…
I want to first make it clear--and I think Senator Craig alluded to this--that this is a constitutional confrontation. There is a growing propensity on the part of the administration, faced with a Congress that the people elected that are…
first, let me thank all the Senators who have played a significant role in this legislation that we are about to vote on, certainly Senators Glenn of Ohio and Roth of Delaware and others, who have committed themselves to ending the…
Mr. President, the fact that we have come to a situation where it has been certified by the General Accounting Office and others that employees of the Internal Revenue Service have been reviewing personal records in an unauthorized way…
James Philander Campbell made significant contributions to the State of Georgia and the Nation during his lifetime, especially in the area of agriculture. J. Phil Campbell was born in Dallas, GA, just northeast of Atlanta, on March 28…
in just a few weeks, on April 27-29, the Presidents' Summit for America's Future will assemble in Philadelphia, cochaired by President Clinton and President Bush. This is an effort to mobilize millions of citizens and thousands of…
today I rise to offer legislation that will end one of the most pernicious offenses forced upon honest taxpayers. I am talking about file snooping. Others may call it browsing or scanning. Whatever the name, it is just plain wrong, and it…
we are about at the hour to bring to a conclusion a very long and arduous effort to produce a positive result as we struggle with the ravages of drugs in our country and in Mexico and in the hemisphere. I want to acknowledge Senator Kyl of…
Many phrases have been used to describe the complex and sophisticated international drug trafficking groups operating out of Colombia and Mexico, and frankly, the somewhat respectable titles of ``cartel'' or ``federation'' mask the true…
I would guess that many in the gallery today, and even some of my colleagues, are unaware of today's significance for rural America. Today is National Agriculture Day and should be a time of great reflection and celebration for all…
any time a contemporary generation is engaged in the business of consuming the resources of generations yet to come, they are in the business of abrogating the freedom of generations yet to come. This democracy was formed in a war for…
I have a comment on the statistics just demonstrated, because I was reading in the New York Times, and they begin the data in 1994. So it shows a slight increase. But the dramatic case that the Senator made is absolutely correct. You have…
I have introduced today three separate joint resolutions to disapprove the President's decision to certify Mexico as fully cooperating in our war on drugs. ... Mr. President, the status quo is unacceptable. The status quo sees the…
for people to remain free, they must be educated. It is at the foundation of our liberty. This bill that has just been referred owes a great debt to Senator Coats of Indiana, Senator Gregg of New Hampshire, Senator Roth of Delaware…
this past week, in one of many revelations about what I have characterized as a national drug epidemic in our country in the last 36 months, it is hard to believe the policy reversals could lead to such dramatic behavioral changes so…
An average family in my State gets to keep 47 percent of its gross income. In 1950 those people got to keep 80 percent. Now they can only keep 47 percent after they get finished paying their Federal tax bill, State, local, the cost of…
we are hours away from the end of the fiscal year. There are leadership meetings occurring everywhere. I have become convinced that the other side has concluded it is to their political advantage to try to re-create a meltdown here. We…
I rise today on a matter of vital concern to the economic well-being of thousands of Georgia families. I think we all remember the tragedy of the event in May, May 11, when ValuJet 592 plunged into the Florida Everglades. And, forever, as…
we understand on our side that we are drawing near the most intense period of the 1996 elections, but we feel very strongly that we should set the politics aside for the election process, and here on the floor of the Senate and in the…
Then you came back again, passed the essence of this legislation, and he signed it, but his Justice Department has subsequently been engaged in an overt attempt to undo it?
The former majority leader has embraced a very focused attack on crime in our country, and he begins--and I think it is appropriate-- with the first pledge to cut teen drug use in half. I can't think of a grander thing to achieve that…
Mr. President, a moment ago I was talking about this drug epidemic. There can be no doubt but that we had a change in policies that occurred when this administration took office. And we have had a resulting change in behavior. If you start…
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