H.R. 2924 is, in effect, a temporary increase in the debt ceiling. Under the bill, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue Treasury securities in excess of the current $4.9 trillion ceiling in order to pay the March 1996 Social Security…

I will remark, if I might, on the brevity of this measure, the succinctness of its purpose, which is to increase the debt ceiling of the United States from the present $4.9 trillion to $5.4--one should not use decimal points when referring…

it would be just 16 years since I came to the Senate floor to speak to a large new idea in our politics which seemed to me was then taking shape and which, as I do believe, has since become a central fact of American government. This was…

the President has now vetoed H.R. 4, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1995. As the bill passed the Senate, December 22, 1995, with a margin of only 5 votes, 52-47, there can be no question of a veto override. Hence…

we find ourselves in the 20th day of an untenable situation. Large parts of the Federal Government are closed. Spending authority is suspended for 9 Cabinet departments and 38 agencies, commissions, and boards, which have responded by…

the new year is now upon us, a Presidential year, and already the competition is fierce among candidates for election to ``Safire's New Political Dictionary: The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics.'' Accordingly, Mr…

I rise to make a simple proposal, which I deeply wish the Senate will accept and see the reasons for. This amendment would simply preserve the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, which has been in place for a third of a century now…

I am concerned that the level of funding in the bill for international educational exchanges will seriously impinge on the ability of AIIS to adequately fill the research demands of U.S. scholars in India. I would therefore seek assurance…

I say to my two colleagues that in 1974 President Nixon asked me to go to New Delhi as Ambassador in his second. At that time relations between our two nations were somewhat strained. The two largest democracies in the world should not…

the Senator from Ohio has pointed out clearly something I find painful. In the very long time that I have been in this city I have never seen legislation imposing more regulatory requirements on State governments by the Federal Government…

I believe we erred in the description of the Senator from Rhode Island as an acting manager. I think he is very much a manager.

I took the occasion to read a passage from the first page of the New York Times which described the White House as "exceedingly eager to support a law that promises to change the welfare system," which is to say abolish title IV-A, Aid to…

on this, the likely final day of the debate on the welfare reform measure before us, it is worth noting that in the lead story of the New York Times this morning, a story by Robin Toner, we read that ``the White House, exceedingly eager to…

As we contemplate the compromise by which we can agree to end the entitlement under the Social Security Act, title IV-A for States to receive a share of the costs for providing for dependent children, I would like to share simply for the…

The bill purports to be a way of sending strong messages to welfare recipients that it is time for them to mend their ways. But as Mr. Will notes, ``no child is going to be spiritually improved by being collateral damage in a bombardment…

in the current issue of the Economist, the cover story is ``The Disappearing Family,'' and it speaks of the problem of out-of-wedlock births. It says of this Senator that I have taken this problem seriously for 30 years. It quotes an…

I could not have stated this case more emphatically, with more clarity and more charity than the Senator from New Mexico. We are talking about children who do not have any control over when they come into the world or in what…

I would like to approach this subject from a slightly different angle, which is to make the case that Federal initiatives have begun to show real results in moving persons from welfare to work. It took a little while for the 1988…

I note that the Senator from Texas has to be elsewhere in a moment, but if she could stay just for a moment I would like to suggest that something exceptional has happened tonight. It may be something that Benjamin Disraeli wrote turns out…

the Dole substitute to H.R. 4 authorizes a supplemental appropriation of $878 million over fiscal years 1997 through 2000 to be allocated to certain States in addition to the funds they would receive under the temporary assistance for…

I am taking a moment to expand on the remarks I made toward the end of our debate on Friday concerning the amendment I offered, the Family Support Act of 1995, a measure which simply brought up to a new set of standards the Family Support…

I Would like to share his concern about the state of the White House operation in this matter--the matter of drug interdiction and drug abuse--which was established by legislation in 1988. The then majority leader, Robert C. Byrd, created…

it was 18 years ago that I first proposed we produce a new tamper-resistant Social Security card to reduce fraud and enhance public confidence in our Social Security system. This has been an ongoing battle, and I think there should be a…

But it does speak to the extraordinary transformation in the debate over welfare policy in the United States. I spoke earlier this week of the moment of February 8, 1971, when Time and Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report had as their…

I rise to acknowledge what would be, not the first time, an error. I said recently just a moment ago that the Department of Health and Human Services has been silent on the subject of this atrocious legislation. I am wrong, sir. I have…