Paul Coverdell

I rise to express a certain amount of indignation over the charade being played out in the U.S. Senate this afternoon. Yesterday, I was, as a member of the Small Business Committee of the Senate, in attendance when the Small Business…

on behalf of Majority Leader Dole and myself, I would like to address the Senate on the death of Curtis Baldwin. I wish to take a moment to recognize a Senate staffer who made a meaningful contribution both to the Senate and his community…

This legislation, Mr. President, is directed at a dictator and regime that has engaged in the violation of human rights of their own people and others, murder, terrorism, exportation of revolution, and has been an open adversary of the…

I want to remind all listening to this debate that we are not talking about normal business transactions. We are talking about a dictator, a murderer, a violator of human rights, and an evil force in our hemisphere. That is the basis of…

Dear Council Member: As you know, the U.S.-Cuba Business Council has closely monitored congressional and Executive Branch action on the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1995 [H.R. 1868], known as the LIBERTAD Act or the…

Absolutely. Second, the focus of this bill is to discourage and chill economic joint ventures with Castro. Economic joint ventures do not involve residential housing properties, instead they deal with the broad commercial properties. So…

the $50,000 cap comes from the workings of the Congress itself. The distinguished Senator from Connecticut, in his opposition to the bill, and several others, were worried about a flood of court cases, and so the cap was placed to address…

first, I think we owe the authors, Senator Helms and Congressman Burton, the cosponsors, and the White House--all who participated extensively to perfect this conference report that I believe will soon become law--a great deal of support…

I tell you. It is mind-boggling. We have said there are four things that must happen. We must balance our budgets. Eighty-eight percent of the American people say we must balance our budget. Are we deaf? They want the budget balanced, and…

More Americans die each year from the use of cocaine, heroin, and other illicit drugs than from international terrorism. One hundred percent of the world's cocaine comes from South America. Realizing this, one can conceptualize possible…

on behalf of the city of Smyrna, GA, and its outstanding Mayor Max Bacon, I rise to commend the Senate--and especially Senator Gramm--for helping Smyrna and the entire Atlanta area in its efforts to deal with the transportation of illegal…

the Savannah River site has been the site for weapons tritium production for nearly half a century--specifically 40 years. Obviously, given the importance of the production of that plant in terms of our nuclear policy, a very large capital…

I only assert that it is a move in the wrong direction. I agree that the amendment we adopted yesterday is a step in the right direction because it will sweep those rules that are affected by reg-flex into our system. But there can be no…

there has been an assertion that this would unleash a flood of regulatory burden on the agencies. I want to make the point again that quite the reverse would be the case. There has been a regulatory flood on the small businesses of…

I rise in support of her amendment. I had an opportunity to speak to this issue just yesterday to several assembled journalists. I said one of the striking features about the issue that is before us is how it reminds us of a rather growing…

first I want to commend my colleague from Florida, who has perhaps more personal knowledge regarding Cuba and its effect on our country than many of the other Members here in this body. I appreciate his remarks. I would like to elaborate…

I just came from the press conference where Senator Ben Campbell announced officially that he had joined the ranks of the Republican Party. In his address, he spoke of the financial dismay. One of the key centers of it was the peril that…

I was so saddened yesterday about the outcome, the narrow defeat of the opportunity to move forward with the debate in the Nation about constructing an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget. It reminded me a little of…

I rise in support of the passage of the balanced budget amendment. I could not think of a single issue--not one--that is more central nor more tied to what the American people were saying in these past elections than the balanced budget…

I also have a letter before me from the National American Wholesale Grocers Association, a group with a very large membership across the country, who support the legislation without the amendment. I am not going to enter all of these into…

As a coauthor, I rise in support of S. 1, and like my good colleague from New Hampshire join in expressing thanks to the Senator from Idaho for the extended, longstanding pursuit of this fundamental change that he proposes along with…

I first met Richard Nixon as the director of what was to become his last political parade in October 1972. The parade just happened to be in Atlanta. Yet, by the time of that first meeting, Richard Nixon had already had a profound affect…

I understand the assertion that all of this is related to partisan politics, but of just recent days, I have come upon this article. I have not seen it in the American press, but this issue is ravaging Europe, which I think ought to be of…

And now the question to my good friend from New York: These new issues that are coming out almost on a weekly basis, do we know that these questions that are called unanswered are in the purview of the special prosecutor? In other words…

1 week ago today, this past Tuesday, basically because of the events surrounding the loss of our former President, Richard Nixon--a moment, I might say, that caused pause for the Nation to reflect on the half century of dominance by the…