again, in response to my friend, it is the fact that in the 1992 campaign, then candidate, now President Clinton proposed to end welfare as we know it. In an address to Georgetown University opening his campaign in 1991, he proposed a…

I do not ask a response. I do not expect a response. But I would like to put that new Iowa Family Investment Program in the Record at this point, Mr. President. It is one page. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be…

may I express particular personal thanks to the Senator from California for her generosity in her remarks, and to make the case--just comment--that in the aftermath of the Family Support Act, we had considerable successes in places such as…

may I thank the Senator from North Dakota, Senator Dorgan, for beginning today's debate, today's critical debate, in an open, thoughtful, fair-minded manner. Could I comment on just one particular point? The Senator raised the question of…

Mr. President, in auspicious timing, the Washington Post has a splendid editorial this morning entitled ``Welfare: Two Kinds of Compromise.'' It speaks of the compromise that was notably on display when Congress, the Nation's Governors…

I have not prepared any remarks for this occasion, and I would be the first to assert that I am not especially prepared. Accordingly, to be brief, perhaps the more intense for that reason, to say that in 18 years that we have shared this…

It seems to me, precisely that. By constitutional proviso the Congress guarantees to the States a republican form of government. I am not sure whether this would fall under that admonition or injunction.

may I thank the Senator from Colorado for offering this amendment which appears to this Senator, and I believe to most Senators on either side of the aisle, as appropriate, and necessary because there are principles involved. I am sure the…

I insist that republican be with a small ``r,'' and at the time when Thomas Jefferson assumed to run the democratic Republican Party. But we will not get into that detail. I would simply indicate that it would be my disposition, absent any…

I have been trying to make a point, as I said yesterday--I do not know that I can persuade anyone, but I can try to make it and I can argue-- which is the point that 30 years ago, we might have considered turning this subject back to the…

I brought to the floor a pen with which John F. Kennedy, on October 31, 1963, signed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. This was the last public bill signing of the Kennedy…

I rise to correct a statement which I made on the floor in the course of our previous 2 days of debate, the beginning of debate, on this legislation. I rise to not only correct my statement but to offer an apology to the Senate if I have…

the point of the editorial is, good God, what happened to our children? Can the present system be as bad as the data depict? If so, let us be rid of that system directly. I wrote to them informing them that we had new data, and it was not…

What would the Senator hypothesize? Would the Senator hypothesize that the households in which the children grow up no longer have anyone who will defend them? ``You can't come in here. And you will please go out there and close the door…

at a point in our history when we have successfully avoided the Armagedonnic catastrophe of nuclear confrontation and have began the sensible process of limiting nuclear warheads by treaty, the Senate proposes to adopt a bill that could…

here is the point I made, and some will not agree--probably most will not agree. Yet, I have been at this long enough to recognize this. The Times takes the view that any system which has produced this result is so bad it must be…

may I just express the appreciation of all Members on this side, and I think on both sides, for the thoughtful comments of the Senator from Louisiana. He has worked so very hard on the bill now before us as a second-degree amendment that…

It happens that we presented this data in the debate that was a truncated debate in August. The Senator is exactly right in what he has said. But there is more to say. This was the work of Donna Pavetti at the Urban Institute--the Urban…

Because he is making an important point. Does he recall the occasion on which the Committee on Finance--of course he recalls-- held a retreat in Maryland, and the Senator from North Dakota learned about the proposal to deny welfare…

George P. Shultz recounts in his biography ``Turmoil and Triumph'' that SDI was President Reagan's own idea but that the plan was announced after a favorable endorsement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Then Secretary of State Shultz…

While the Senator from Louisiana is here, I want to say I very much appreciated this exchange. It made me feel like we are back in 1988. There are two things to say. One is that there is a participation requirement in existing law of 20…

If I may put it in question form. He might know that in the summer of 1992, President Bush visited Riverside and was making a point that it seemed to be working and is catching on. I rushed to the floor with a photograph of President…

I know he would be aware, he is speaking so well, so feelingly and wisely, that in 1992 the number of children born to unmarried women was 1,224,876 souls, one and a quarter million children in 1 year.

this Chamber has been graced with many a fine and wondrous person. Rarely has a State sent two such. In the remarks of the junior Senator from Rhode Island concerning his senior colleague, we have an example the Republic would do well to…

I rise to introduce the Commemorative Coin Act of 1995. This bill authorizes the striking of six coins in the next 2 years. The subjects to be commemorated are: the 200th year of gold coinage, the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and…