just 2 days ago, the Washington Times carried a fine article by our former colleague, Rudy Boschwitz, and Robert Paarlberg, who is a professor of political science at Wellesley College, entitled ``China Trade Boosts Farmers,'' subtitled…

If I might say, these amendments get 18 votes, 22 votes; we now have a pattern. The Senate made its decision about this legislation midday. The sooner we are in the aftermath, the better relations will be, and the Senate can go on to other…

I rise to speak briefly to the important issues my friend, the Senator from North Carolina, has raised and to suggest that we have the necessary international agreements already in place to address the more fundamental issues with which he…

Since the 1930s, section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930, and the Smoot-Hawley tariff, has made it illegal to send prison labor products to this country. If it still continues to be done, doesn't that problem involve our vigilance? Shouldn't…

So states the balance of payments, sir. They come in under our tariffs, which are already nonexistent. We can't get in under theirs. Under this agreement, they have agreed to bring them down to a reasonably low level and to wipe them out…

If we found a Chinese gunboat on the Missouri, we might say: I think you got your charts wrong here. This is U.S. waters, not yours. It is easy for us to forget because there was no indignity done us. It is not easy for them. I am not…

I wholly agree with the statement by our revered chairman of the Finance Committee. The operative part of this measure is two pages. It is a simple statement. It came out from the Finance Committee almost unanimously.

I first visited the People's Republic of China in 1975. I had been Ambassador to India, and, for reasons that were undiscernible at the time, the Foreign Minister of China wished to talk to me as I was on my way home. I received this…

On August 19, 2000, President Clinton signed into law bipartisan legislation that pledges more than $400 million to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases in Africa and around the world. There are few greater crises that face us today…

Did you say the ``little State of Delaware''? Do you mean the first State to ratify the Constitution of the United States?

if I may, the chairman is absolutely correct. I believe it to be the case. You can't obviously say this with complete confidence, but China will become a member of the WTO with us or without us. They have completed their negotiations with…

That would be four months ago, in mid-May. There has been plenty of time to examine it. The House bill has a few additional features we find attractive and which we think we could adopt and send right to the President who would sign it. It…

It is the best hope of mankind at this moment, sir, because the age of nuclear warfare is not over. If we think we have proliferation today, wait until we see. We won't, but if we were to announce that we want the Chinese on hold, I cannot…

I think the Senator, the chairman of our committee, has spoken so well and effectively; the Senator from Montana equally so. I believe this debate has been thorough. We respect our friend from South Carolina. We know his views. We do not…

as I indicated yesterday in remarks following an extensive comment by our sometime President pro tempore, our revered Senator from West Virginia, the Senator from Delaware and I would have to oppose all amendments. Whatever their good…

I rise with deference and not a small measure of awe at the continued erudition of my colleague from West Virginia. The first decision I made when I came to the Senate was to support him for majority leader, and I have not made one of…

I hope he will make available more of the research that has been described so carefully by himself and the Senator from Arizona. This is new to an easterner but not too new. Two-thirds of the State of New York is covered by hardwood…

I thank my revered chairman for this opportunity to discuss the most important issue we will deal with in this portion of this session of Congress. At the Finance Committee's final hearing on China this spring, on April 6, our last…

might I first express my gratitude to our chairman who suggested that the 10 hours reserved for a conference committee report be reduced, in this case, to a half an hour in order that we might continue with the Senate's business on…

This began, for me, during the period of the Finance Committee hearings on the health care legislation submitted to us by the administration in 1993. At one hearing, a professor, Charles Fahey, of Fordham University, speaking for the…

might I join with our distinguished majority leader in expressing the grief we all feel for a man of peace who did so much in his life, and brilliantly, as Director of the Peace Corps under President Bush. We know him so well and miss him…

I regret that I have to disagree with my chairman. The Byrd rule has proved such an important measure to maintain budgetary discipline. It has brought about the present happy circumstances; and this is no time, in our view, to move back to…

We propose that married couples be enabled to file jointly or singly, period, end of subject. There are, sir, 65 marriage penalties in the Tax Code. This amendment abolishes them all. It would not allow the alternative minimum tax to take…

the proposal we make is somewhat without precedent as a tax measure. It can be described, sir, in one sentence: It says, with regard to the marriage penalty, married couples are free to file jointly or individually. They choose. The…

The Senators from Hawaii have identified a true problem with the estate tax, and they have proposed a very meritorious solution. Let me assure the two Senators that I will do all I can to include this proposal in any estate tax relief…