You face a much harsher judge than this Committee, and that is the judgment of history, and that judgment is likely to revolve around the question, did you restrict freedom or did you expand it.

A rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.

a rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.

You face a much harsher judge . . . than this committee and that is the judgment of history.

Find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens, our children.

I cannot remember when I heard so much misinformation in one small segment on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The things that Senator Nickles refers to are the things that took place with VISTA and ACTION prior to Sam Brown's being there. I…

we are all heavily dependent on our staffs and the support people around here. We are dependent on the pages and the people who take down our words and the people who tell us what is pending, the people who guard this establishment and the…

I also ask myself how would Martin Luther King like to have this day observed. I had the privilege of knowing him slightly. In fact, I met Martin Luther King the same day I met Harris Wofford, now the Senator from Pennsylvania. I was in my…

I think it is worth reminding ourselves also, as we talk about Martin Luther King, his last effort was in behalf of custodians--janitors, if you will--in Memphis, TN. We have a country today where 23 percent of the children live in…

I rise in strong support of this legislation that my colleague from Illinois is handling. I agree with Senator Wofford and Senator Moseley-Braun that to say we are going to have a Commission but we are not going to fund it would be the…

I just heard our colleague from Texas say--and I have heard it two or three times today--that we have no strategic interest. We do have strategic interests. The interest is in maintaining stability. Frankly, our policy has been anemic in…

Let me say, with all due respect to my two colleagues, I think things can get worked out over on the House side. We always find a reason not to move ahead. One of the reasons for coming directly to the floor is, frankly, there are people…

what this amendment proposes is very simple: That we appoint a three-member privacy commission with no more than 25 employees, $1.5 million authorization the first year that would take a look at the whole question of privacy in our…

as the year progresses, the debate over immigration policy grows more and more heated. Calls for restrictions on immigration--both legal and illegal--are accompanied by claims that immigrants represent a drain on our economy and a threat…

I rise today to recognize a special milestone in science and our understanding of nature. Scientists at Illinois' own Fermilab have found the first direct evidence of the top quark, the sixth and last component of a standard model of…

I am pleased to submit this resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the recent tragic events in Rwanda. I am joined in this effort by Senators Jeffords, Kassebaum, Kennedy, Feingold, Wofford, and Pell. On April 6, 1994…

I thank my colleagues, particularly Senator Kennedy, the chairman of the committee, and Senator Durenberger, who has been very helpful on this, as well as other things. We would not have the Direct Lending Program today but for Senator…

Yes, it is. If any such right currently exists under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, this Act does nothing to preclude such an action.

I would point out simply that is the policy of this administration as spelled out in the Wellstone amendment. That is why I am hoping that maybe we can still work out some kind of a compromise with the Senator from Kansas because I do not…

I visited the Robert Taylor homes, the area in controversy, on Monday morning. I took no reporters with me, no television cameras, so I could just talk to the people who are in that area. Overwhelmingly, they want the police to do the job…

first I respect the sincerity of the President pro tempore and his careful work in this body. I also respect my friend from Oklahoma, Senator Nickles. Let me point out, to just reinforce what Senator Kennedy had to say, that it is those of…

Today we reflect on one of the worst crimes against humanity committed in our century: the Turkish massacre of 1/2 million Armenians beginning in 1915. Nationalism based on notions of ethnic purity is not something most Americans…

Judge Barkett, from every evidence I have seen--and I have gone through the record, I was there for part of the hearing--is eminently well qualified. The charge that she is soft on crime, or does not favor the death penalty--that really…

I am rising because the FBI has, this week, released their hate crimes statistics. Back about 3 years ago we passed legislation to ask the FBI to do this, and they have been doing it. The good news is about twice as many law enforcement…