Last year the number of officials with the authority to classify documents originally decreased by 959 to 4,420. Presumably, this should reduce the number of classifications, but the number of classifications increased by nearly…

The central fact is that we live today in an information age. Open sources give us the vast majority of what we need to know in order to make intelligent decisions. Analysis, far more than secrecy, is the key to security. Decisions made by…

I thank the two leaders for their support and welcome them to an effort that began in the 103rd Congress with the adoption of P.L. 103-236, establishing the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy. This bi-partisan…

That is correct--there has been only one other statutory inquiry into this subject. This was the Commission on Government Security, established in 1955 by the 84th Congress, known as the Wright Commission for its Chairman, Lloyd Wright…

If the Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy is to serve any large purpose, it is to introduce the public to the thought that secrecy is a mode of regulation. In truth, it is the ultimate mode, for the…

The Government Secrecy Act will provide a framework for our secrecy system which can limit the number of documents initially classified and significantly reduce the backlog of already classified documents. It sets standards for…

Today I am pleased to submit a resolution seeking to right a 50 year wrong. I am joined by the distinguished senior Senator from Indiana, Senator Lugar, and 37 of my colleagues. Having served as our Ambassador to the United Nations, I am…

it is an honor to speak following the statement by our revered, sometime President pro tempore, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, a man who has brought to our Chamber a sensibility concerning the Constitution that, I would argue, is…

1848 was one of the busiest years of the 19th Century in Europe. Everywhere kings were abdicating, ministers fleeing, mobs roving. In London, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels composed a pamphlet entitled Manifesto of the Communist Party…

May I add, not only honest but a courageous man. In some 21 years on the Senate floor I have not heard a more refreshing and inspiriting statement. It is not surprising coming from the Senator from Utah, but it is all the more amazing…

On September 28, 1996, the Senate passed the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, a 749-page bill with 24 separate titles. Included in that unwieldy legislation was the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, a…

Well, there will be the formal dedication. There will be, I believe, the National Symphony. There will be a musical. It will be a day-long event. And I hope people will find time for it. There is nothing like it that will have happened in…

the German Government has long recognized its moral obligation to assist the survivors of the Holocaust. The landmark reparations agreements of the early 1950's between the West German Government and Jewish groups were predicated on this…

Senators Chafee, Bond, Warner, and Baucus are to be commended upon their successful negotiations with the House to produce a short-term extension to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act [ISTEA] of 1991. This bill will…

Friday, the 7th of November 1997, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Joseph Henry, the Joseph Henry Medal was presented to Dr. Frederick Seitz at a dinner of the Smithsonian Council. Clearly, this was a special occasion…

I simply would wish to say that I have listened with great respect to the Senator from Maryland as regards the time sequenced in which the fast-track legislation went into effect and the foreign trade deficit began to grow. I say two…

I rise simply to affirm in the strongest terms that the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has been faithful to his duties. He has kept a committee united, minus one vote, in an otherwise unanimous decision. He has been meticulous in…

I do no more than argue what economists now believe, that they may have to change their mind. I don't in any way contest. But I am just saying tomorrow when we have more time I wish to discuss this at greater length.

I rise with a measure of ebullience. By a solid majority of both sides of the aisle, we have just voted to do exactly what our revered chairman said ought to be done, and reported how in the past it has been done. The vote was 69 to 31. I…

We are going to do this. We kept the faith. We followed the convictions and the experience of Presidents going all the way back to the 1930's. So I close simply by quoting again, Senator Dole in his fine op-ed piece in yesterday's…

may I thank my dear chairman for saying there is no time like now. What a better moment to start addressing the Tax Code than that point which, nominally at least, we have a balanced budget and we are not driven by the exigencies of…

there is now clear evidence that at least for the short run, both the economy and the budget have attained to a singular degree of stability. Consider the following facts: The current economic expansion is now in its seventh year and shows…

I would like to stand here and say that as this goes forward, there can be complete public confidence in the chairman of the Committee on Finance, Senator Roth, that it will be done in a nonpartisan way. I don't think I should use the word…

for half of our century--52 years--one of the notable events in the life of New York City has been the annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York, and presided over by the cardinal…

After a very great deal of effort and not inconsiderable amount of pain, we have brought the Federal budget into balance. I stood here in 1993, or rather my good friend, now Ambassador to China, Mr. Sasser, as chairman of the Budget…