Dick Lugar

I rise today to support S. 1733, as amended, a bill to combat fraud and waste in the food stamp program. This bill will do two things. First, it will require food stamp offices to match food stamp files with Social Security data to…

At no point during deliberations with the Department of Agriculture was it ever envisioned the transfer of information technology funds would cause reductions in force or furloughs. In fact, great care was taken early in the process to…

I will vote for the 1999 agriculture appropriations conference report. Unfortunately, several unwise provisions have been added since this bill passed the Senate. The cumulative weight of these mistaken policies does not outweigh the many…

these agencies, including the American Farm Bureau and the sheep, broiler, beef and pork producers have made the essential point with regard to the removing of the cap on the marketing loans. Inevitably, the signals go out and the supplies…

That, Mr. President, is the basic problem with the amendment that has been offered by the distinguished Senator from Iowa. I simply point out that the basic and largest farm organizations in America have spotted this and they wrote to me…

I would like to hear his thoughts about German-American student exchanges and the reasons why the bill before us does not include any appropriation for these important exchanges. Let me assert first of all that I am a strong and…

I appreciate your assurances. Mr. President, I would like to made a few additional comments on the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program. For the past 15 years, some 11,000 young students from Germany and the United States have…

I understand the companion House bill includes funding for this exchange program at about $2 million. Therefore, funding for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange program for fiscal year 1999 will be an issue in conference. Is it the…

to answer the question posed, both the President and the Congress can reauthorize the action after two years. Additionally, they are constrained simply to explain how successful things have been and what their objectives were to begin…

I come before the Senate as a fifth-generation family farmer; that is, five family generations of Lugars, from the 1820s in Grant County, through the present farming operation we have in Marion County, have been involved in the business of…

during this debate on the pending amendment, three arguments have been made. I want to respond to them briefly. One came about through Senators suggesting that the President of the United States, who just today proposed sanctions on…

there has been a remarkable degree of bipartisan cooperation in moving this bill forward. I would like to thank Senator Biden, Senator Chafee, and Senator Leahy for their help in drafting the Senate bill, which is a companion to H.R. 2870…

I rise to discuss the African Growth and Opportunity Act which has passed the House in March and is now before the Finance Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. I am the principal Senate sponsor of the bill which I introduced some…

I am eager to speak today as an original sponsor of the legislation before the Senate. This bill is appropriate and a good first step toward comprehensive review of economic sanctions that is sorely needed for our Nation's economic…

Senator Coats and I have shared with you this year our strong support for $2 million through the HUD Economic Development Initiative Account for the Midwest Proton Radiation Institute (MPRI). The MPRI is an important economic development…

I acknowledge the importance of warehousemen under the current tobacco program and that some of those warehousemen may be adversely affected when the current program is eliminated. That is why I have made it clear in my amendment that…

Indeed, it is always a pleasure to work with the Senator from North Carolina, I will do what I can to ensure that warehousemen who are adversely affected by comprehensive tobacco legislation are not forgotten as the tobacco legislation…

I will not argue with the Senator's arithmetic. I suggest there is even a worse predicament; namely, as the Senator has pointed out, a marriage penalty, and the drug program. Other things have been added in since we started the argument…

That was my motivation. My general logic still is about the same--that we have a very crowded situation up front. But that is not precluding either one of us from arguing for the farmers' interests up front as opposed to downstream, and a…

No. The amount of money in the Lugar bill for farmers is about, as I recall, $16 billion or $17 billion. And 46 percent of that would come in the first year.

I believe that it is a deteriorating and failing program. To give any other impression is not to give a very good forecast of the future. I hope the Senator from Kentucky agrees with me that, given that predicament, this particular piece…

I want to tell him how much I have appreciated working with him and with all of our colleagues on what I believe is a monumental advance for not only American agriculture, but for feeding the world in the next 50 years, as well as the…

Mr. President, let me make as clear as I can the parliamentary situation. We have tried, in the Ag Committee since last fall, to pass a sound research bill. We succeeded last fall. The House did not act finally until the end of the session…

the report with regard to the conferees on agriculture reform is supported by 17 out of the 18 members of our committee. I make that point because the 17 have written to our leader asking him for this debate. They are grateful for that…

I want to summarize our debate--which has been a good one this morning--by saying that it is very important that we act today to pass the conference report. As the distinguished Senator from Mississippi stated eloquently and correctly…