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…

I repeat, sir, that the 1993 measure was part of a long-range effort to restore actuarial balance to the Social Security and Medicare systems. It treats Social Security income, retirement income, as all other retirement income is treated…

I am sure he knows as he invokes the image of the Four Horsemen that at this very moment the Congressional Gold Medal has been bestowed on Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, the president of the Notre Dame football team, which embodies the spirit of…

50 Nobel laureates signed an open letter to President Clinton on July 6, 2000, urging him to reject a proposed $60 billion missile defense system. Dear Mr. President: We urge you not to make the decision to deploy an anti-ballistic missile…

I have now served 24 years on the Finance Committee, and the last 20 years has been a continued frustration in our disinclination and refusal to make the research and development credit permanent. It is elemental that research projects go…

might I make the point that the provision that the Senator from Nebraska is offering is part of S. 21, a bill that we introduced in the first session of the 106th Congress almost 2 years ago. It was a bill to reduce Social Security payroll…

it is with some potential embarrassment that I stand here and say I may be the only person in the Senate who lives on a farm and has done so for 36 years. It is a dairy farm, with cows in the pasture and in the barn. The neighbors are all…

I can say to you that absent this revenue from the gasoline tax, which we imposed under President Eisenhower in 1956, and which built the Interstate Highway System and transformed American society, the transportation programs will just…

Does he not recall that in 1980 the Office of Management and Budget projected a large surplus for the Federal budget in the coming 5 years?

Monsignor Peter Vaghi is a member of the Senate family. He served here some years ago as the assistant to our esteemed and beloved brother, Pete Domenici. He is now the pastor of old St. Patrick's, or St. Patrick's Church on 10th Street…

today I rise to introduce a joint resolution, recognizing Commodore John Barry as the first flag officer of the United States Navy. Commodore Barry had been described as the ``Father of the American Navy'' by his contemporaries for his…

as a New Yorker--and I am sure my esteemed chairman will understand--I rise in defense of Theodore Roosevelt's estate tax: One of the great achievements at the beginning of this century and of the last century--although we have members of…

Therein, sir, lies the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. I know of no such farmer; my friend from Delaware does. What more can I say? How pleased I am for him; how regretful I am for the toil-driven…

My dear and esteemed chairman says he knows a family farmer whose farm is worth more than $2 million.

while I support the objectives of this legislation, I regret that the Senate has chosen to rush ahead with a vote on this matter without following the customary Senate procedure. This bill should have been referred to its committee of…

Today on the East Front of the Capitol ground is being broken for the new Capitol Visitor Center, a project that will take at least five years and hundreds of millions of dollars to complete. Nearly a century ago, in March 1901, the Senate…

I am introducing the Broadband Internet Access Act of 2000. This legislation provides a tax incentive to stimulate rapid deployment of high-speed communication services to residential, rural, and low-income areas. A term of art often used…

How very generous of you, Mr. President. How kind of my beloved colleague and friend. I rise with a measure of animus, if I may do, sir, this afternoon. I was one of those who, with my colleague, introduced Mr. Lynch to the Committee on…

this was a momentous moment for the Senate, for the Nation, and for the world. We have passed the first trade bill in 6 years, having rejected others and having come about in the aftermath of very dim expectations. From no chance whatever…

Fine. I would simply close by saying, sir, as to the matter of worker rights, the amendment to the CBI legislation offered on this matter was offered by Senator Levin, which I cosponsored. It provided that the President must take into…

I rise in complete accord with the resounding statement of the Senator from Iowa. I know he would agree with me when I say we are both here speaking in the intellectual grasp of our chairman, Senator Roth, who will return to the Senate…

On February 22, my beloved colleague, the junior Senator from New York, introduced legislation to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, in recognition of…

As the Senate once again considers an amendment to the United States Constitution, this time to protect the rights of crime victims, I ask that George Will's column from Sunday's Washington Post be printed in the Record in its entirety. He…

May I just make a closing remark. Not meaning to be disrespectful, but there is a joke, a witticism, if you like, that says libraries file the French Constitution under the heading of periodicals: It comes; it goes; it comes; it goes. We…

We have not, sir, as is evidenced by the fact that I believe we have done it 18 times including the Bill of Rights, which was basically part of the Constitution.