I would like to respond, also, to the Senator from California, who indicated that one of the reasons why she opposes the Coats amendment is that we will not have medical personnel adequately trained to perform abortions if necessary. I…

Last week, as we were looking at potential amendments for this legislation, the issue of the potential discrimination that might exist regarding payments from the Federal Government to medical hospitals and to individual residents in…

the amendment on which we are about to vote prevents the Government from discriminating against hospitals and ob- gyn residents who choose not to perform abortions. It protects those civil rights, but it also allows those who voluntarily…

I just want to inform the Senator from California and our colleagues that what I stated was that on the basis of letters that we have received from a number of trained physicians in obstetrics and gynecology that the similarities between…

Second, let me state this idea of separating Federal from District funds is nothing more than a bookkeeping exercise. Essentially, what would happen is that the so-called District funds would allow the local government to continue funding…

I will also just state, with what little time I have remaining, that the Coats amendment has the support of the AMA, the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Accrediting Council for…

Until January 1, 1996, the Accrediting Council for Graduate Medical Education did not require that a hospital train its residents to perform induced abortions. Such training, if it was necessary, was done on a voluntary basis. On January…

It is true that the Senator spoke to me about offering the amendment. In the context of what we are doing here, a time limit is reasonable. It is just that I cannot speak for other Senators who I know would want to speak in opposition to…

I want to tag on, I do not know if I can add to what was so articulately presented by my colleague, Senator Lieberman, from Connecticut, about the many reasons why we ought to go forward and support this demonstration effort to determine…

I have come for the first time to a disturbing conviction. That conviction is that I do not believe this budget process is going to succeed. I am beginning to believe that any amount of negotiating in the future is not going to result in…

I would like to just see if I understand the situation here. It seems that the coroner has pronounced these two bills dead, and we all wanted to look at the body and we have all concluded that they are dead, or most of us have concluded…

over the past 25 years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children born out of wedlock, children being raised by single parents, and children entering the foster care system because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment…

I rise to offer on behalf of myself and Senator Ashcroft, the charity tax credit amendment. This amendment is designed to expand the ability of private and faith based charities to serve the poor by making it easier for taxpayers to make…

I want to say there is no legislation that necessarily can adequately address this underlying problem, but there are certainly things that I think we can do to encourage and to nurture, to provide respect and, hopefully, some measure of…

If the Senator had incorporated figures from 1985 to the present, you would see an entirely different picture. By drawing the line at what might happen in the next 5 years, you are ignoring what happened in the last 10 years. There has…

Since Navy officials were short last year of $300 million in operations funds due to increased tempo of operations, they reduced flying hours for squadrons aboard carriers. Marines getting home from a 6-month deployment to Somalia aboard…

we are grinding away slowly in this process on regulatory reform. I think all Members had hoped we would be able to move much more quickly on this legislation. The majority leader has just outlined a schedule for the Senate between now and…

this has truly been a year of reform. Since the outset of this Congress, the pervasive theme has been to fundamentally change a system of government that has gone awry. Thus far, most of these efforts at reform have been targeted at the…

I noticed today a small item that appeared in the Washington Post, the news that the President's Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, Mr. William Galston, had submitted his resignation, effective in May. Mr. Galston is a…

we hope later today to be bringing to the floor the line-item veto. Senator McCain and I are leading that effort. We are in final stages of negotiation as to the final form of the legislation. It is something that has been discussed at…

I have observed few, if any, people that in my opinion better exemplify the walk of the Lord and the love of the Lord than Dr. Halverson. He has been a great inspiration to me. He is a humble servant of God.

for decades Congress has enjoyed the unlimited luxury of unlimited debt. Our practices, which are pleasing for the moment to constituencies that profit from the practice of unlimited debt, have seriously undermined the credibility of this…

the world lost a great public servant and well-known Hoosier last weekend with the death of the Honorable Richard L. Roudebush. He was born on a farm in Noblesville, IN, 77 years ago. In 1941, he graduated from Butler University in…

The voters on November 8 said they wanted some very significant, major change in the way that Washington does its business, in the way it relates to the citizens which we were sent here to serve. There are some basic fundamental underlying…

Mr. President, 200 years ago, our Founding Fathers fought a revolution against what they saw as an imperial government, a government that taxed them to the point of despair and denied their freedom. From this revolution, they built a…