this conference report comes before the Senate in an atmosphere of near euphoria. While I have signed the conference report--I was a Democratic conferee from the Finance Committee on these matters--and while I will vote for each of the…

this morning I learned from the mayor of the Village of Owego of a problem he is having with the village's share of the local law enforcement block grant. Mayor Hogan informs me that after recently receiving a letter from the director of…

current Supreme Court Justice David Souter captured the legacy of jurisprudence left behind by William J. Brennan Jr., when he said: ``Justice Brennan is going to be remembered as one of the most fearlessly principled guardians of the…

my friend and colleague, Senator D'Amato, has clearly set out the reasons why Fort Drum needs these two projects. They are essential to the training and readiness we and the Army have come to expect from the 10th Mountain Division. It…

It is now over half a century since the end of the Second World War. Millions of us who served in that war returned home to resume our lives and enjoy the blessings of peace. To all of us the end of the war was a relief. To the survivors…

I rise to note that the passage of the energy and water appropriations bill brings us one step closer to the completion of the West Valley demonstration project in western New York. In 1982 we authorized the West Valley demonstration…

I rise along with my friend and colleague, Senator D'Amato, to submit a resolution that urges the United States Postal Service to issue a commemorative postage stamp to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention…

I am pleased to state, on behalf of Senators Breaux, Graham, Kerrey, Chafee, and myself, that none of the tax relief measures and growth incentives contained in this tax bill will have a positive impact on the 3.8 million American citizens…

might I just take a moment to observe that, with no uproar, we are about to do something rather important. In this vote on budget procedures we are going to legislate a change in the inflation index used to update official calculations of…

Can I simply endorse my revered chairman's judgment? We have had a good debate. We have a good bill, a bipartisan bill. The prospects of any serious change are not large. The prospect of any serious attention to new proposals are not…

It is characteristic of our beloved former President pro tempore to thank others for the efforts that have led to the Court's nondecision today. Might I take the opportunity to thank him. It is his magisterial understanding of the…

this is one of the finest moments the 105th Congress will know. It could not have come about without the courage and the conviction of the Senator from Utah. I would like to affirm everything he has said about the support on both sides of…

in brief, sir, in the history of child health care, in the U.S. Congress there has been no measure equivalent in size and range to the measure the distinguished chairman brings before you. We spent much of the 103d Congress on this subject…

I again want to commend and thank the chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Roth, for the fine bipartisan manner in which he has led us this year. I look forward to that spirit of bipartisanship continuing today as we work toward the…

some may have thought that there has been a leakage of reality about the social insurance programs of the American Nation; that only crisis brings us forward to some sensible responses. But I think today we proved just the opposite. The…

I would like first to thank our revered chairman for his concise and comprehensive account of this epic legislation. It comes to the floor from a unanimous Finance Committee. These are the first substantive changes made in Medicare and…

Today I am joining Senator D'Amato, along with Senators Chafee, Breaux, Hatch and Graham, in introducing bipartisan legislation to improve the existing tax credit for providing employment in Puerto Rico. Economic conditions in Puerto Rico…

today the Senate joins the people of Israel as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. The Six-Day War began after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, spurred on by the Soviet Union, conspired with Syria…

But I would like to pay such tribute now. Just about 1 year ago--June 13, 1996, to be precise--my daughter Maura and I traveled to the White House for a state dinner in honor of Ireland's president, Mary Robinson, and her husband Nicholas…

As we close out this embarrassing budget season, cutting taxes, increasing some spending, promising a balanced budget somewhere in the next century, it might restore a measure of self respect to recollect a not distant time when we knew…

I rise to record and to celebrate Robert D. Novak's 40 years of Washington journalism, as he himself records this morning in a Washington Post column ``What a Change 40 Years Makes.'' Forty years in journalism, as he writes, ``an…

last year, the President and Congress enacted welfare legislation which I said was welfare repeal, not welfare reform. At that time, researchers at the Urban Institute estimated 2.6 million people would fall below the poverty line because…

I rise with Senators Lautenberg and Lieberman and a distinguished group of my colleagues today to introduce the ISTEA Reauthorization Act of 1997. This bill is designed to reauthorize, with some modifications and improvements, the…

I rise to state that this is a fine moment in the history of the Senate. It has come about through the leadership of Senator Robert C. Byrd and his devotion to the Constitution of the United States. The court today ruled in the most…

I will vote against both the Republican and the Democrat resolutions. I hold that the Attorney General should appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged improprieties by Democrats and by Republicans in fundraising for the 1996…