Dan Coats

I asked for the time in order to explain the situation to our colleagues over the whole issue of out-of-State trash. As my colleagues know, this has been an issue that I have been relentlessly pursuing now for 7 years or so, with great…

We checked with Planned Parenthood and asked them that question. They disagreed with what you just said. They said there is no way, they do not have specific information about the availability of abortion coverage, how many insurance…

The issue before us has nothing to do with a woman's right to have an abortion. It has nothing to do with an amendment that, in her words, denies the choice of women, takes away a woman's right to choose. It is not an amendment to stop…

That is my dilemma because Indiana has, in my opinion, dealt with it in a thoughtful way. In some instances, the statute that we have is broader than the amendment offered by the Senator from Oregon and therefore I would think would be…

I believe our State has taken adequate steps to provide protections and information for consumers and therefore I will have to oppose the amendment. I am just looking out for my State of Indiana which made a determination of what is best…

That is my last word here. I know that the Senator is very familiar with what the State of Oregon has done. The constituents of Oregon have elected him because they feel he knows what is going on in that State. It does not sound to me as…

This is not, despite what has been said, this is not an issue over whether or not a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion. We do not change any constitutional rulings. We do not change anything in that regard. This is simply an…

today's debate concerns an issue of extreme import and controversy--extending civil rights protection to sexual orientation. This is an issue of great importance because, for the first time in our history, Federal legislation would protect…

As I said earlier, it is disturbing that the debate is necessary at all. I am thankful for the opportunity to discuss the importance of traditional marriage. For too long too many people have just assumed that marriage will survive whether…

I commend the fine leadership of Chairman Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. Together, they worked to achieve strong bipartisan support of this year's Defense authorization bill. The conference bill before us…

I think the minority leader is about ready to tell us the reason we can't move forward tonight. Again, that just points to the bipartisan support. The administration has signaled through the Secretary of Defense, President Clinton's…

I do not know of anything more important--I do not know of any mandate the Congress has in the Constitution that is more important-- than providing for the national defense. I do not know of any issue that is more important for Members of…

I want to engage the Senator from Mississippi, Senator Cochran, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, about his understanding of the provision included in the conference report of the fiscal year 1997…

with the passage of this welfare reform legislation, I think we can confidently state that the New Deal is old news. As we all know, this legislation will end the Federal Government's entitlement to welfare, an entitlement created 6…

All Members of this body remember early in this Congress we introduced and passed into law the Congressional Accountability Act which applied the various civil rights and labor laws that are currently applicable to employers and employees…

It has been modified from the original legislation. We have addressed some of the concerns of the exporting States and struck a balance between the timetables, in terms of their ratcheting down the exports, and we made some adjustments on…

The Medguide issue is an issue that arose in the Labor and Human Resources Committee discussion of the Food and Drug Administration reform effort. Medguide is an attempt by pharmacies and pharmacists to provide consumers information…

in 1962, President Kennedy, in his budget message to Congress, noted: The goals of our public welfare program must be positive and constructive. It must contribute to the attack on dependency, juvenile delinquency, family breakdown…

many of the congressional efforts at reforming the welfare system have focused on the elimination of the Federal bureaucracy, the devolution of Federal authority, and the transfer of funds to the State bureaucracy. In some respects, these…

child abuse is a critical issue facing our Nation. Each year, close to 1 million children are abused or neglected and as a result, in need of assistance and out of home care. CAPTA is a small but vital link in the provision of these…

each year, scores of abused, neglected, and abandoned children are herded into the world of child protection to be cared for by strangers. For many of these children, foster care will be a refuge, for others, a nightmare. Being separated…

Let me state that I support very much what Senator Dodd and Senator Mikulski are attempting to do here. This is essentially the same legislation that we are attempting to restore that we enacted in the 1990 child care legislation. This…

there is a shadow creeping across the American landscape. It thrives in some of the poorest of our urban and rural communities. It threatens our towns and cities with economic cannibalism. It undermines our political process with a flood…

What Senator Dole said today in Minneapolis was that this country needs education reform, not education reform as defined by this administration and by some in this Congress, but real education reform. Education reform that ensures that…

this is an enormously complicated issue with very board implications. I understand that the Judiciary Committee has held hearings on the issue and that as a result, voted 10 to 7 to report out a bipartisan compromise. The compromise…