I think it is extremely fitting that Senator Hagel and 14 of our colleagues have joined me in introducing a bipartisan bill to provide tax relief for a group of hard-working Americans, namely the self-employed. What we are trying to do…

It just may be a fact that there is insufficient evidence to support the charges which the Senator from Utah and other Republicans believe. Now, this Attorney General has been involved in this investigation for a long period of time with…

let me just say in closing, on this particular issue, before I move to the other with Senator Hagel, this is a matter of the Attorney General's discretion. Whether that Attorney General is a Democrat or a Republican, under this statute the…

In 15 years, I have never seen anything like this. For some reason, the Budget Committee is on vacation when it is supposed to be on the job. The statute says get moving by April 15, give us a budget resolution. We have an appropriations…

April 15, we all know that date; 40 percent of the American taxpayers file their returns within the last 48 hours as the closing day comes for filing personal income tax returns. This year, for about the third year in succession, I did my…

What extraordinary symmetry, what exceptional justice this evening that we consider the nomination of Pete Peterson to be our first Ambassador to Vietnam. Thirty-one years ago as an Air Force pilot, Pete Peterson was flying his 67th combat…

I rise today to memorialize 111 miners from the town of Centralia, IL, who died nearly 50 years ago on March 25, 1947, in one of the worst coal mining disasters in U.S. history. On that day, 142 men were working in mine No. 5 of the…

I hope it is. Would the Senator be kind enough to tell me his thoughts as to whether or not we should accomplish significant and meaningful campaign finance reform this year so that the 1998 election cycle can be a cleaner, perhaps better…

over the last several days of debate in this Chamber we have heard those who favored the appointment of a special counsel say that time is of the essence, and that we should move forward and ask the Attorney General to make this…

I will return and my colleagues will return with similar resolutions in the hopes that we can reach a bipartisan agreement for a timetable to consider this issue. Absent that agreement, many of us are afraid that we will once again fall…

there have been a lot of headlines in the last several weeks of embarrassment to both political parties. There have been a lot of questions asked about the system by which we raise funds at all levels. Questions were raised about the use…

in the 1996 election cycle, unprecedented amounts of money freely flowed into and out of the campaign coffers of candidates for Federal public office. The time required to raise funds is excessive, and increasingly more expensive election…

I rise to speak this morning on an issue of great importance to American foreign policy and to the future of Europe. This week, on March 11, Lithuanians and Lithuanian-Americans celebrated the seventh anniversary of the restoration of…

Naturally, every politician wants to propose a tax cut. Is there anything that draws more applause in a town meeting than the line that ``we want to cut your taxes''?

But think of what happened when Senator Dole proposed a substantial tax cut as the keystone of his campaign. It fell flat. The American people are skeptical. They want to make sure we keep our eye on the ball, and we have to move toward…

I think the chairman, the Senator from Utah, concluded that automatic stabilizers do have some impact. I think that the chairman would agree with me that for a person who has lost his job or a person who has lost her job, the prospect of…

I respect all of those people, but I respectfully disagree with them when it comes to the specific language of this amendment. There is a reason why the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Rubin, after 26 years on Wall Street, came before our…

first let me thank the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his cooperation in this effort. Though we may not see eye to eye on this amendment or the underlying amendment to the Constitution, he has been gracious and gentlemanly…

I speak on my behalf and on the behalf of the senior Senator from Illinois, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, in support of this nomination of Bill Daley to be our new Secretary of Commerce. Bill Daley, of course, is well known in the city of…

In the 14 years that I have served in Congress I have faced many votes on this issue. Not one of these votes has been an easy one. I have tried to make a decision of conscience in each case. When I took a look at the drawings which the…

as my mother, an immigrant from Lithuania, learned as a young girl in East St. Louis, IL, learning English was crucial to success. She became a bilingual translator in court as a young girl, and of course today I have the honor to serve in…

the image of terrorism are ingrained in our minds. What was often seen as someone else's problem is now our problem. If America is being terrorized without and within, this Congress should not be terrorized by special interest groups…

I rise in support of reforming the welfare system. As the American people know, the current welfare system is in desperate need of reform. For public aid recipients trapped in the system, for those who exploit the welfare system, and for…

I think for a moment here I would like to reflect on what the 104th Congress has not done. This 104th Congress, led by the Republicans for the first time in 4 decades, has not done several things. We can applaud the fact that they have not…

I really believe this may be the starkest contrast, the clearest choice that American voters have faced since Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran against Herbert Hoover in 1932.