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I am pleased to note that a Treasury official appearing before the Finance Committee this week testified in support of targeting estate tax relief to family-owned businesses. Time and time again, family business owners across the country…
The article is all about his book, ``Live From Death Row.'' I also say that people wonder why some of us are frustrated with National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, when they use taxpayer's funds. If it had not…
this is a time for celebration--a brave American pilot, Capt. Scott O'Grady, has been rescued from Bosnian Serb-held territory. He is back at Aviano Air Base in Italy and will soon be on his way home to see his family. I am pleased to…
Last year, I spoke out against National Public Radio's stunningly misguided proposal to hire convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to provide a series of 'Death-Row Commentaries.' Fortunately, NPR had the good sense to cancel its contract…
last week, I ventured out to Hollywood and called upon the executives of the entertainment industry to exercise some good citizenship and put an end to the steady flow of mindless violence and loveless sex they serve up each day to our…
It is like making sausage out here. It may be we can work it out. I do not see much problem with the Kerrey amendment. We might be able to accept that with some modification. But we want to finish the bill. I promised the President we…
We do that every day around here and we never finish anything. I would like to do the voting tonight on all but habeas and vitiate the cloture and finish habeas and start on telecommunications sometime tomorrow morning. We have some…
I do not know if those are gun amendments or not. I have not looked at the amendments. I want to stick to terrorism. I want to see what the end result is, when we would finish the bill. But I underscore what the Senator from Utah said. I…
well, we had hearings on wiretap authority, and we had general hearings before the FBI Director Freeh. We have had numerous hearings on habeas corpus reform. We have had hearings on alien terrorist removal and posse comitatus. We have had…
At this moment, several thousand United States troops and their equipment are headed for Europe to positions near Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tomorrow the Armed Services Committee will hold hearings on this deployment and U.S. policy. On…
It had been my hope following the policy luncheon that we would have a major shortening of the list of amendments on the other side of the aisle. As I understand, there has been really no effort to limit the amendments, except they picked…
It seems to me, and I have not seen the list that may be remaining, a number of these amendments are not directly related to antiterrorism or what happened in Oklahoma City or anywhere else. If there will be a pattern of amendments offered…
45 years ago last Thursday, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine rose from her seat in this Chamber and delivered a speech she called a ``Declaration of Conscience.'' Many historians believe this speech marked the beginning of the end of…
the managers have been accepting some of these amendments. I would like to get some idea of how many are left. We started off this morning with 99, and I do not know whether we are down to 90, 85, 25, or 10. There will be a cloture vote…
Immediately after the tragic events in Oklahoma City, I wrote to President Clinton expressing my hope that we could put aside partisanship and develop an antiterrorism plan all Americans could support. Just as partisan politics stopped at…
The letter suggests that the President should help us out on this bill. He could call his Democratic colleagues, maybe have a White House meeting, and see if we cannot complete action on this bill. The House has not acted. But that does…
in January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower gave his last speech as President to the American people. And in those remarks, Ike offered some advice which should be remembered by all of us in the Senate--and all Americans--as the Federal budget…
President Clinton is now in Ukraine. I support his decision to visit Kiev. Economic and political reform in Ukraine are proceeding very well. There is strong bipartisan support for United States assistance to Ukraine. It is in the American…
the United States has issued a subpoena for Darin Schroeder, an employee on the staff of Senator Feingold, to testify at the trial of a defendant who was indicted last January for threatening to bring a bomb to a post office building in…
50 years ago today, the guns were silenced in Europe, and that continent was at last freed from the tyrants who had plunged it into war. And across the world on May 8, 1954, there were moments that are remembered today, and will be…
first let me thank the Chaplain for his prayer today. This is a very important day for millions of Americans. It seems to me that it is time for reflection, to think about America, and to think about 55-plus million people who lost their…
On April 22, the Washington journalism community lost one of its most enduring figures. For decades, Naomi Nover was a distinctive presence on Capitol Hill and at the White House, often claiming a front-row seat at Presidential news…
as we continue the legal reform debate, I think it is important to take a few minutes and focus on what is and is not at stake here. What is at stake is whether we are going to continue with a legal system that is too costly, too long, and…
on Wednesday, the Capital of Croatia, was subjected to a vicious attack by militant Serb separatists. This was the second day in a row that Zagreb was attacked by rockets armed with cluster bombs. The attack occurred at noon, when…
last month, the Medicare Board of Trustees issued its annual report. Four members of this committee are appointees of President Clinton--three of them currently serve in his Cabinet. The trustees concluded that Medicare will begin to go…
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