I had not intended to speak in this debate. This is the fourth time this amendment has come to the floor since I have been present. But the speeches, statements, the addresses by the Senator from Nebraska and the Senator from Virginia…

I rise with enthusiasm to join our chairman in introducing this measure which is word for word as the President sent to us on March 8. In doing so, he put the matter clearly enough. He said: The Agreement will dramatically cut import…

Exactly so. It should. I do not think we can name it for you, but it certainly will be one of the great measures you have achieved in a long career, not yet concluded. I would observe that it took some prodding to get the legislation sent…

We have heard the compelling arguments to eliminate the so-called earnings penalty for persons 65 years and older. There is a short-term cost that is followed by a long-term payback, if you like, such that in a 20- to 30-year period the…

this is a moment of high achievement. Is there anybody about who can remember when a substantive piece of legislation affecting millions of Americans and dealing with the Social Security Act would pass this Chamber 100-0? I can't in my 24…

I wonder if I could detain the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire for just a moment to say how very much I agree, and I am sure this side agrees, with the points he has made, as the chairman has indicated. In August of 1994…

it is a special joy for this Senator, in his last months of his last term, to rise on this subject in perfect unity with the chairman. I will make remarks out of habit and custom perhaps, but I could not say anything better than has been…

as the Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem prepares to release its final report and disband today, I think it is only appropriate to thank our Chairman Robert F. Bennett and Vice Chairman Christopher J. Dodd for the…

I rise to express great appreciation on my part to my revered friend and colleague, Senator Schumer, and to Senator Leahy, Chairman Hatch, Senator Lott, Senator Daschle, and all Senators for their vote confirming the nomination of Judge…

Mr. President and my revered mentor, the Senior Senator from West Virginia, in his life, George Washington did two things without equal in the history of Government. The American Colonies having revolted against the rule of King George…

today I rise to introduce, along with my distinguished colleague from Wisconsin, Mr. Feingold, the Mother-to-child HIV Prevention Act, a bill that seeks to address mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing regions of Africa, Asia…

as I did 4 years ago, I wish to record my emphatic and enthusiastic support for the nomination of the honorable Alan Greenspan to a fourth term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is a national treasure…

I am aware of that, and I recognize that is a very reasonable thought. But I do know, from some experience in that part of the world, that citizenship is not a standard statutory entitlement of the individual, as it would be--well, even in…

Not a small intellectual feat, equal to my understanding of some of the amendments themselves. Sir, I am going to make two quick comments. One is anecdotal. I was involved with the negotiation of the Long-Term Cotton Textile Agreement…

I get to the point, and I don't make it in any hostile manner. I just say the complexities of the world, just that part of it, are very considerable. I am reluctant to see such categories enter trade law. No one has ever asked whether the…

This would require us to negotiate 147 environmental agreements around the world before any of the provisions of the African bill or the Caribbean Basin Initiative or the tariff preferences under the Generalized System of Preferences can…

There may have been a time--yes, there was, in the era of a planned economy, in the era of the Soviet Union, in another era. Are we debating another era? We are going to ask the President, under one of these amendments--I have lost track…

I join my chairman in saying this is a valuable amendment. Having been involved in drafting the legislation in 1962 which created the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act, I think this is an important extension of the same principle. It is…

I don't wish to suggest there is anything but good intentions behind all these measures. But to introduce the idea of--is it citizenship we are talking about, ancestry, or what? What is an African, sir? South Africa would be part of the…

I certainly could attempt to do so. I would not risk overstatement. There would be a setting in which, having given the President negotiating authority for a new round of international trade talks, having arranged for Trade Adjustment…

I wish to join most emphatically with my revered chairman in congratulating the Senate today, in thanking the majority and minority leaders. We have risen to a moment which was ominously in doubt. Last week, as the week progressed, two…

there are more than just prospective benefits for American workers in this legislation, on this Trade and Development Act of 1999. We now have 7 days before the Trade Adjustment Assistance program is ended, a program that goes back 37…

I have just a couple of points to make about this extender bill. First, my congratulations to our revered chairman of the Finance Committee, who brought all sides together in a consensus bill that accomplishes our objective--extend…

Twenty years ago, statistics proved that was not possible. There were something called the ``Phillips Curve'' that said: There is a tradeoff; the lower your unemployment rate goes, the higher your inflation rate goes. And everyone said…

We will have broken our word to them, that by accepting open trade policies in the aftermath of which there would be dislocations, the economy at large and the society would make arrangements for them to transfer to other work with other…