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in the last several days, as we have debated this very historic constitutional amendment, Thomas Jefferson has been quoted over and over because of his early recognition that there needed to be a constitutional provision for balancing the…
the whole Nation is waking to yet another trustees' report that should paint a very bright, vivid red light to every American. We have gone past the yellow light. I would like to share with the Senate just a few facts that have recently…
My question is this: Is it not true that if we were successful in passing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring balanced budgets, there would be immense benefits for the present, that interest rates would drop, job…
I want to reiterate a point, before I yield to the Senator from Idaho, that was made by the Senator from Mississippi when he opened this discussion. He pointed out that this vote is to allow the States to take up the issue of whether or…
I compliment you on your remarks. I did not have a chance to do so to the Senator from Idaho and all the others that have risen in support of the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. If I could take just a minute to try to step…
we will soon once again cast a historic vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. It will be a historic vote. It will be a defining vote. Given the experience of the last 26 years, $5 trillion in debt, interest on debt that…
I thought he made an absolutely eloquent presentation as to why our Nation, this generation, and particularly those yet to come, are so dependent on the type of discipline as represented by the proposal the Senator from Illinois suggests…
I do want to read the quote: Next week, 43,000 of the 100,000 cops will be on the street. That is the quote.
I am pleased to offer today a sense-of- the-Senate amendment regarding Government travel. My amendment is simple--it says that it is the Senate's view that all Federal agencies should refrain from Government training sessions or retreats…
I do not believe I will ever look at the desk directly in front of me, or the podium on it, ever again without thinking of the Senator from Kansas. Senator Dole is a living American hero. He is a Senator of the century. Whenever I have…
a few moments ago, the other side of the aisle effectively blocked the efforts to repeal President Clinton's August 1993 increase on gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. Now, just to put this in perspective, when the President was running…
I thank the majority whip, the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, for the contributions he has made to this debate, laying it out, underscoring the pressures that this tax has put on the American working family. Just as an aside, the…
the Los Angeles Times ran an article today, May 13, 1996, and it is just a stunning article. Drug Runners Arrested at Border Often Go Free (By H.G. Reza) San Diego.--During the federal government's yearlong narcotics crackdown along the…
I am convinced if Thomas Jefferson, or any of our august Founders were here today, they would be absolutely aghast to find that this Nation, that the workers--and it is better to characterize workers as working families today, because…
The headline reads, ``Drug Runners Arrested at Border Often Go Free.'' Smuggling: Crackdown leads to more seizures, but jail overcrowding and clashing priorities force suspects' release. During the Federal Government's yearlong narcotics…
That they will put 100 paid volunteers in some 70 congressional districts. So you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why the other side is scared to death of a procedure or management tool that those labor bosses do not…
As I said a moment ago, I could not envision us separating this thing in a form where the President's poison pen versus this poison pill they are talking about could be applied to the issues we want to become law and he could accept the…
I do not believe the package will be separated, because of the fear of the poison pen of a veto. So they will not be taken up in separate votes. I am sure there can be an accommodation to other amendments. But the separation that would…
I underscore that regarding this proposal, 90 percent of the economists have alluded to the fact that it will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. The proposal we are talking about is part of a new workplace. It comes from nations that are…
to lay a framework here, we have three proposals that are before the Senate offered by the majority leader, Senator Dole of Kansas. We have an opportunity to repeal a 4 rac{1}{2}-cent gas tax that was imposed by President Clinton in August…
And we ought to be guiding them to a more flexible workplace, a more friendlier work environment. I think the President's statement sort of speaks for itself. It is not a question of interpreting it. He simply says, this is a quote: When…
This is a good debate, because talking about the TEAM Act or the ability for employers and employees to work together is something that actually came out of Asia. We have all sat back and noticed the efficiencies that some of the Japanese…
Because we are a right-to-work State, and they can function under the law here. There are many shops where that is not the case.
Yes, there are two promises here. First, the President said he would lower taxes on the middle-class as part of the campaign of 1992. That was substantially reversed. Instead of lowering the economic pressure on America and America's…
I never believed that the United States should bear the amount of responsibility it did in Bosnia. I felt that it was a European theater, that the Europeans should have been the predominant force, and that the U.S. support, which should…
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