Paul Coverdell

What all this means is that today one in four--that is 25 percent--of high school students are using drugs now regularly--one in four. Most of them are smoking it. They smoke it. But they say it is not relevant--1 in 10 junior high schools…

I was encouraged to stop by a female youth detention center in the middle of my State. I really didn't expect that much from the meeting, but they gathered about 20 of the inmates. Their ages were 12 to 16. They were each given the…

from 1980 to 1992 drug use among teenagers was reduced by two-thirds. It was reduced in great part by the massive interdiction program and much of an education program that was voluntary. My point here is that the amendment we have offered…

I think this is exactly the time to do it. I think that it sends the wrong message for us to be talking about teenage addiction and wrap our arms around it like it is only involved in tobacco. About 14,000 teenagers die from drug addiction…

I suggest my colleagues need to ask Americans what they think the most important teenage problem is today. When you ask American families, not CDC or some think tank, but you ask American families what they think the No. 1 teenage problem…

But I want to reiterate the importance of this amendment that puts teenage drug addiction in the mix. I have said repeatedly throughout the debate that I think it is unconscionable policy to be talking to the country about teenage…

I suspect this most recent cloture motion has the potential of engendering some controversy. It puts into rather tenuous circumstances the amendment we are discussing, because if we cannot vote--if cloture were secured, this amendment…

it is interesting how each of our States has experienced disasters in the last several years--you a 500- year flood, we a 500-year flood, and now this devastating tornado. In April, we have had four natural disasters in Georgia: a flood…

the point that we are making is that you cannot talk about teen addiction and be silent on the No. 1 teen addiction problem, which is drug abuse. So the purpose of this amendment is to make certain that any legislation being considered by…

We are talking about teenage addiction, and have been for the last several months, specifically on the floor, over 2 weeks. I have been struck by the fact that a major piece of legislation would be brought to the floor of the Senate…

Let me continue, for the Nation to step forward with the powerful will to drive down teenage drug abuse by two-thirds--two-thirds--for those people who think this is a problem for which nothing can be done, I remind everyone listening that…

Mr. President, to me it is illogical--and I have been puzzled throughout the debate--that we would be talking about teenage addiction in the context of tobacco only. It is not good policy to talk about teenage addiction and leave out the…

One more comment. There are still donor States, so there is in this agreement a recognition of special circumstances, distances, rural areas, or other infrastructures. There is still a subsidy that occurs, some of it legitimate.

In essence, I was asking if the conference report--the floor was 90, so that although South Carolina was getting 71 cents back and Georgia 74, we could expect, if this were to pass, 90.5 cents?

With regard to this question of donor States, the two States that were the most--if that is a standard, legitimate standard-- the two States that received the weakest return were South Carolina and Georgia. It is my understanding that the…

let me simply say that the incongruity cannot be more clear that the agency says it doesn't do random audits; yet, if they are prohibited, it would cost a billion dollars a year. We have a problem we have to iron out here. As I said, GAO…

A random audit is like Russian roulette. A random audit means the IRS, even though your return reflects no discrepancy, can reach in, pick it out with no cause and suddenly be banging on your door. This ought not to happen in America. The…

the hearings that the Senate Finance Committee has been conducting on the Internal Revenue Service--the adjectives that have been used to describe it are ``startling,'' ``stunning,'' ``unbelievable.'' I do believe most of the American…

I did think that was a philosophical problem, but I think the more important issue that the Senator raises is this layering and layering and layering. We are struggling with that in every component of the Government. I don't know how many…

certainly the amendment of the Senator from Michigan is a thoughtful one. But as has been noted by the Finance chairman, it completely makes moot a core principle of the underlying bill, and for that reason I oppose it. I don't dispute the…

Yes, the Senator from Alabama is correct. Under current law, private colleges are at a distinct disadvantage to their public counterparts.

as we have noted throughout this debate, we have a lot of Americans who are exceedingly deficient in reading. When more than 40 million Americans cannot read a phone book, a menu, or the directions on a medicine bottle, and only 4 out of…

Those are the same income levels as set in the IRA for higher education which has been celebrated by both parties and the President.

the underlying legislation, in great part, has been designed by a colleague of the Senator from California, Mr. Torricelli, of New Jersey, who sits right next to her. The underlying proposal has a significant component for new school…

the first point I want to reiterate is, we do have to acknowledge, apart from the amendments, that the points I made a moment ago are all in the underlying bill: Education savings accounts for 14 million families, 20 million children. And…