Bob Dole

yesterday President Clinton acknowledged-- belatedly--that the post-cold-war era presents us with new national security challenges. He stated, ``The end of communism has opened the door to the spread of weapons of mass destruction * * *.''…

after reading a May 13 report in the Los Angeles Times, I wrote to Attorney General Reno expressing my shock at reports that Clinton administration officials are letting drug smugglers go free as a matter of official policy. Although I…

I will take just a minute of the Senate's time to express my disappointment that we were unable to agree on any of the unanimous-consent requests that we presented to my colleagues on the other side with respect to the pending gas tax…

Tuesday night the House passed an important measure that will help protect our Nation's children from sexual predators. By a vote of 418 to 0, the House passed legislation, known as Megan's law, that strengthens existing law to require all…

So, I would say hopefully on Tuesday, then, we can obtain cloture. Then we will decide how to deal with the TEAM Act and minimum wage. They are still floating around out there, or will be. We are still prepared, I think, as Senator Lott…

We have a provision in the gas tax proposal that requires that a study has to be completed and that mandates that the savings go to the consumer. I do not know how--I would be happy to look at the amendment. In fact, we could probably…

That is not an amendment that will be offered to Megan's law. We have had about enough of that.

we would certainly be agreeable we could have three separate votes, gas tax repeal, TEAM Act, minimum wage. In fact, we are prepared, if cloture is invoked, to have three separate votes. We cannot get agreement to have three separate…

Two hours? Two hours on each side? Apparently there must be something other than the time that is the problem on the other side.

I think the point is that the Senator from Massachusetts made it very clear he was going to amend every bill with the minimum wage, which, in effect, served notice on us that anything that we brought up would be blocked. We want to resolve…

As I have indicated, I said in that response, I might and I might not. And I will not. That will take care of that. Again, nobody is trying to negotiate. Democrats like to negotiate, but I do not negotiate with press people unless there is…

I meant--and I talked about Senator Mitchell as my friend and the friend of everybody on this side and the other side, and he is doing quite well in the private area--that he would file cloture rather quickly. But the point is, I can…

I think I do understand your position. I sometimes admire it--sometimes. But I think the point is that we need to resolve this, if we can. I would be happy to try to work with the Senator from Massachusetts, or the Democratic leader, or…

Let me say that I did indicate--I do not negotiate with the press. As far as I know, they are not Members of the Senate. Some have more power than we have, but they are not voting. I was asked that question, and I repeated the question. I…

it would be my view that when that vote comes, there will be a substantial majority. The vote the Senator refers to is a cloture vote, and sometimes they are a bit deceptive, as I have learned.

late last evening H.R. 2137 passed the House, I think, unanimously. It is Megan's law, plus some other additions to help protect our Nation's children from sexual predators. The vote was 418 to 0. Known as Megan's law, it strengthens the…

I find it strange that our colleagues on the other side are filibustering minimum wage. We are prepared to have that vote right now. We will not even need 30 minutes of debate. We are prepared to have the vote on TEAM Act, prepared to have…

I am rather new at this, but it seems to me, when you get what you want plus you get a little icing on the cake, you get to vote to repeal the gas tax, you ought to take it. But now we are told--I did not know the President was opposed to…

I say to my friend from Massachusetts, we can arrange to modify, chop a limb off the tree here, if we can agree on an amendment process.

I guess we were unable to reach an agreement today, but it seems to me we should repeal the gas tax, settle the minimum wage dispute, all in one fell swoop. Hopefully that can be resolved.

I just say that we would like, of course, first of all, to just pass the repeal of the gas tax today. We have the taxpayer bill of rights at the desk. We can amend that and send it back to the House, as I said earlier. I think it would be…

I would be prepared to go, I think, further than many of my colleagues would be prepared to go. We would call up another revenue bill--and there are some on the calendar, I guess; H.R. 2684 comes to mind--and modify the text of that with…

If the Senator will yield, I guess it is the other way around. Your leader is telling us the only way we can move the Senate on anything is to vote on your version of the minimum wage. We have a majority in this body. We have some…

It contains the increase you suggested in the minimum wage, 45 cents and 45 cents.

Let me make it clear, some of my colleagues do not think minimum wage is a good idea. I read some of your colleagues feel the repeal of the gas tax is not a good idea and some of your colleagues feel the TEAM Act is not a good idea. So if…