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…

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 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…

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…