Paul Coverdell

undoubtedly, Senator Dole's emphasis on taking crime head-on is an outgrowth of a circumstance over the last 3 years that has just turned sour on us. It has been alluded to, but I want to cite some of the facts that have developed in the…

as most people know now, over the weekend, our former Senate majority leader announced in very broad, very specific, very forceful terms his plan to come to grips with a surging, raging crime wave in the United States. All the data that I…

I appreciate his being here this afternoon to talk about the issue of the Internal Revenue Service and its broader implications on taxes. As you know, Madam President, one of the centerpieces of Senator Dole's economic plan is to focus on…

when Senator Dole left the Senate, I looked down at this desk, and I said that I would ``never forget or look at this desk without seeing him or thinking of him.'' He is now engaged in a very long journey. As the Senator from Minnesota…

In this debate about the working family there are two figures that are constantly quoted. One is 40 percent. I typically use 50. I wonder if the Senator would agree, when you add on the regulatory costs and that family's share of higher…

I rise in support of the Hatch- Coverdell amendment. It has been an honor to work with Senator Hatch, with his longstanding efforts to engage the drug war. I point out to my colleagues in the Senate that just last week we discovered the…

the tax relief proposal of our former colleague, Senator Dole, which, just to sketch it out, calls for replacing the current tax system with a simpler, flatter, fairer system; it cuts the personal income tax rates across the board by 15…

We know that virtually every segment of American life deals with the tax burden today, and it is about what they think it should be. You would be hard pressed to find a segment of our country that believes the IRS is not a threatening…

My home city since 1970-75 has lost 125,000 residents. My argument is that if these cities just continue to impose higher and higher financial burdens, the end result is they make the city richer and poorer, because every time they ratchet…

I want to point out again, an average family in Tennessee cannot be a lot different than one in Georgia. It is about $40,000, $45,000 that this average family is earning in Georgia. I assume that is about what it is here. When you take 40…

as we have heard, there is a great national debate in the making with regard to the anxiety in the American workplace, anxiety particularly among middle-class working Americans. I have often talked about a snapshot of an average family in…

In 1993, the Clinton administration imposed the largest tax increase in American history, $491 billion. That resulted in the highest tax burden, 19.3 percent of the entire economy, that is being consumed by Government. So the stage has…

I think he has reinforced everything we have been saying all afternoon. It does not matter what community you are in, whether St. Louis or Gwinnett County, GA, we are in the midst of a new epidemic. Just to summarize, major policy with…

I want this meeting to be a wakeup call. I want it to be absolutely clear in all of our minds when we leave this meeting and when we leave here today that there is a new drug epidemic in the United States. Epidemic. You will hear these…

I am convinced that most parents, until very recently, did not realize that we are in a new epidemic. I think they had heard year after year that drug use amongst our teenagers was falling. It did from 1980 to 1992. It was cut in half…

I know I am another American here that is thinking every moment and every day about the condition of our men and women in the armed services that are engaged in the conflict with Iraq. But before we get into it I wanted to acknowledge my…

as everyone has said here this morning, we have had a trail of good news from the other side on the economy. I go back to a quote: We have the most solid American economy in a generation. That was President Clinton's remark on July 6 of…

we, of course, extend our grief and condolences to the family of Alice Hawthorne from Albany, GA, and for Melih Uzunyoz, a Turkish national, both of whom lost their lives in a terrorist-related bombing that occurred at approximately 1:20…

as I have said many times on the floor, we are in the midst of a drug epidemic in the United States of enormous proportions that are not yet, I do not believe, fully comprehended. Drug use among our youth has doubled in the last 36 months…

I will take just a minute to read from this statement from William Bennett: Yesterday we learned from interviews with Secret Service agents that background investigations on White House employees found that more than 40 had used drugs; a…

The Senator has raised several very, very crucial questions and sort of a constructive criticism which I might need to take to heart. First, we have not lost all the ground; we have just lost a lot of it. If unchecked, we will lose it all…

If the Senator will yield. On dozens of editorial pages-- I am quoting-- there were comparisons to the most infamous demon in American history. The Georgia Republican's words, said Newsday, were laced with the kind of innuendo which fueled…

I would like to read an editorial that appeared in the Boston Globe on Tuesday, July 23. It relates to his remarks. It quotes Speaker Gingrich in December of 1994. He said on a television show: I had a senior law enforcement official tell…

This is an amendment about an epidemic, a drug epidemic that is occurring in the United States. In the last 36 months, Mr. President, 2 million children in our country have tragically been embroiled in this drug epidemic. That is 2 million…

there is an incongruity here between myself and the Senator from Vermont. I just heard the Senator from Vermont say, ``You don't throw money at the drug program,'' and then the Senator from Delaware. So, you are suggesting the President is…