Sam Brownback

today I introduce a bill along with Senators Leahy, Cochran, Jeffords, Helms, Durbin, Lugar, Edwards, Voinovich, McCain, and Feinstein, which seeks to protect the integrity of high school and college sports and reduce the unseemly…

I am privileged and pleased today to commend to the Senate Judge Carlos Murguia of Kansas City, KS. A native of Kansas City, Carlos Murguia is part of a remarkable family. Every one of his four siblings have earned a law degree from the…

I hope that sends a strong signal across this country that today is a day to celebrate. We should be celebrating the institution of marriage and support that institution rather than tax it. For many years now we have taxed it. Clearly, if…

I have noted in my opening statement, and I have noted later, the human rights issues that exist throughout the region. There is no doubt that they exist. I think the same standards should be applied to Azerbaijan as apply to the other…

I think the relevant question is how we move forward in this region of the world. That is the issue that we debate.

I want to correct one assertion that this is just about oil. I hope we would look at the people who live in this area of the world which is affected by this Silk Road Strategy Act. It is interrelated. It does all tie together to create…

Armenia has taken about 20 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan. The U.N. has condemned that. And what effectively you have in place is a mutual battle line that has existed between those two. The U.N. has condemned this action and told…

People can look at that. As far as this being a sensitive time in the negotiations, I support peace in the region, but this battle, this fight between the sides, has been going on since 1992. We have had a ceasefire for the last 5 years…

I realize I have spoken on this a couple of times, but I have heard arguments put forward that I want to clarify my response to so it is in the Record. No. 1 is that the administration, the U.S. administration, the U.S. Government, is part…

It would make available international disaster assistance, humanitarian assistance, and development assistance in the opposition-controlled areas of the Sudan. I recently led a congressional delegation to the region. The government in…

I wanted to address several of the issues my colleagues have raised, that the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan that are taking place in the so-called Minsk Group are at a very delicate time period and the repeal of section 907…

But it is not just that. They also say here the administration strongly supports passage of the Silk Road Strategy Act, which may be added to the bill as an amendment. They appreciate the committee's continued efforts to reduce…

The Clinton administration supports my position on this. They think it would help the United States in being an evenhanded negotiator so we do not have a set of unilateral sanctions, sanctions on one of the parties. They think that is…

Azerbaijan--section 907--is the only country from the former Soviet Union that we have unilateral sanctions against. We are not lifting those sanctions by this amendment. We are allowing a national interest waiver to the President which is…

I want to draw attention to an amendment I intend to offer if it is not accepted overall. It is an amendment entitled 'Humanitarian Assistance for the Sudanese Opposition Groups.' This is a very simple amendment that would allow us to give…

the State of Kansas was also hit by the same system that hit Oklahoma which caused so much tragedy and damage. I would like to speak for a few minutes on that. We had a number of families that had homes destroyed. We had five people killed…

Mr. President, the situation in Kosovo is clearly a very serious one deserving of our deliberation and vigorous debate. To this point in time, though, the administration, for my satisfaction, has certainly not provided the Members of the…

I rise to address the body today on another aspect of our culture. I have spoken several times this week about different aspects of our culture in areas that I think need desperate reform, which certainly has been highlighted by what took…

I have some comments I will make today following what has happened in Colorado, the Columbine tragedy that occurred this last week which has caused all of us really to reflect on the causes and the cures. As we mourn the loss of so many…

It is time we address this. It is time we address it strongly. It is time we address it clearly and ask two questions: How did we get here, and how do we get out? This is not the culture we were raised in and this is not the culture we…

I thank the Chair. Certainly, all of our thoughts and prayers are with the people in Colorado, across this country and across the world, who have been touched by the terrible tragedies in the shootings. We cannot ignore the shootings that…

I wish to address the Senate today on the subject of the violence in Littleton, CO. I note that over the weekend a number of funerals took place, and as I speak another funeral is occurring as a result of the shootings in Littleton, CO. I…

I rise today to mark a milestone in the history of the Georgian nation towards consolidating its independence and sovereignty and the progress Georgia has made in moving towards becoming a democratic government with a free market economy…

I want to make note of a report that came out today that is one, I think, we are going to be seeing and hearing quite a bit more about in the U.S. Senate. It was a report of the Congressional Commission on Military Training and…

At the very start of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat wrote a letter to then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in which he stated this: "The PLO commits itself to the Middle East…