I rise to introduce the Power Marketing Administration Reform Act of 1999, a bill to require that the Federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) sell electricity at market rates and recover all…

I rise to introduce the Government Secrecy Reform Act. I would like to begin by thanking my cosponsors, Senators Helms, Lott, Daschle, Thompson, Collins, and Schumer. The legislation that we introduce today is intended to implement the…

I introduce today a bill to revise the formula for determining the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage. Medicaid services and associated administrative costs are financed jointly by the Federal government and the States. The formula for…

I rise today to introduce a tax bill that would correct a serious misallocation of our limited resources under present law: a tax subsidy that inures largely to the benefit of wealthy sports franchise owners and their players. This…

Mr. Presidents, I rise today to introduce the Poverty Data Correction Act of 1999, a bill to require that any data relating to the incidence of poverty in subnational areas be corrected for the differences in the cost of living in those…

today I am introducing with my colleague Senator Chafee the CHIP Data and Evaluation Improvement Act of 1999. This legislation would ensure comparable data and an adequate evaluation of children's health coverage under the new Children's…

I introduce this bill to repeal an unprecedented provision--unprecedented until the 104th Congress--to tamper with the constitutional protection of habeas corpus. The provision reads: (d) An application for writ of habeas corpus on behalf…

In November 1998, Essence Magazine reported that between 1980 and 1995 the suicide rate among Black males ages 10 to 19 more than doubled. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, suicide is now the third…

Let me read excerpts from the letter: The habeas corpus provisions in the Senate bill * * * are unconstitutional. Though intended in large part to expedite the death penalty review process, the litigation and constitutional rulings will in…

just over 98 years ago, in March 1901, the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was directed by Senate Resolution to ``report to the Senate plans for the development and improvement of the entire park system of the District of…

today, I introduce a bill to provide access to health insurance for individuals between the ages of 55-65. These individuals are too young for Medicare, not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, and in many cases, are forced into early…

might I just confirm the observations of the distinguished majority leader. He has been faultless in his effort to find agreement on all sides in regard to all questions of which there is yet no list or likely ever to be a final one. But…

I would also point out that both the funding for the Conservation Trust and the opportunity to provide much needed monies to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands could have been accomplished by including the Administration's rum ``cover…

the Senate has done the right thing by agreeing to support David R. Kaczynski in his effort to donate more money to the victims of his brother, ``Unabomber'' Theodore J. Kaczynski. I hope the House of Representatives will now follow suit…

the budget agreement reached on Thursday evening was celebrated by both parties in competing press conferences, and there may well be much to commend in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act. The trouble…

the news from Russia remains grim. The Times reported on Saturday: Rocked by its worst harvest in 45 years and a plummeting ruble, Russia appealed today for relief aid from the European Union. It has also approached the United States and…

I am pleased to cosponsor, along with our esteemed Chairman, Senator Roth, a Senate Finance Committee bill to extend a package of expired tax provisions. Unfortunately, dealing with this group of expired tax items has become a routine…

today the United States Congress acts to authorize the placement of a statute of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-- Mahatma Gandi--on Federal land across the street from the Indian embassy in Washington D.C. Such a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi…

today the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence brings to the floor the conference report on the intelligence authorization bill. While I commend the Committee for bringing this legislation to the floor, I would like to take this…

I rise to commend to the Senate a most timely and informative article which appeared in the New York Times on August 11, 1998. Written by Todd S. Purdum, the article provides a useful overview of the twenty year history of the independent…

this is a simple proposal to obtain numbers about a Federal program as regards the respective States. As a member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works for the last 22 years, I served as chairman, at one point, and handled a…

In the city of Rochester, a major city in our State, and in the Nation, the flight to Chicago and the flight to Hong Kong cost exactly the same. And the Kodak company, as I understand it, has taken to having their employees who do business…

Mr. President, the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill before us addresses a matter of the utmost urgency: the need to replenish the resources of the International Monetary Fund. Title VI of the bill provides $14.5 billion--the amount…

my colleague Senator Kerrey, with whom I am pleased to cosponsor this Sense of the Senate resolution, has it exactly right. The payroll tax is regressive. The statistic he quoted bears repeating. Among families that pay payroll taxes 80…

the U.S. Capitol Police--so ubiquitous, so steady, so utterly competent. We take them for granted. Yet every day they defend us, our families, our staff, millions of tourists, ready to lay down their lives. Last Friday, two of them did…