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Sam Brownback is a Republican politician who served as the Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Prior to his governorship, he was a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1996. Brownback is known for his conservative positions on social issues and his advocacy for tax cuts and economic development in Kansas. During his tenure as governor, he implemented significant tax reforms aimed at stimulating the state's economy, although these policies faced criticism and led to budgetary challenges.
Senator Kohl and I have a great deal of concern about getting some enforcement mechanisms put into place during reconciliation so that the budget agreement that is reached, if it is passed, is then enforced. It is in the reconciliation of…
I rise to speak about something of great sadness in our Nation. Tomorrow we will take a vote on partial-birth abortion. I want to speak about that particular issue if I could this evening from a particular perspective that I think might be…
I support disaster relief. I think it is important to help those places in our country that are experiencing great difficulty because of a natural disaster that is occurring. We ought to step in. It is important that we do it. But I also…
I rise to give some remarks on an amendment being offered today by myself and by Senator Roberts as well as my colleagues from New Mexico, Senator Domenici and Senator Bingaman. This amendment, which is revenue neutral, is critically…
Today, as most people recognize, is a national day for prayer. We have also been talking about a very important thing regarding families and a bill that has been put forward to try to help families be able to do their job better. What I…
I have reluctantly but clearly concluded that Iran would be more likely to obtain and use chemical weapons if we enter into this Chemical Weapons Convention with article X in place... I have, unfortunately, reluctantly yet clearly, decided…
I find it a terribly tough call to make on this treaty; a tough one to be able to decide what is in the best interest and ultimately what will get the fewest chemical weapons used in this world. That to me is the real litmus test issue…
I support that treaty. I support it. And I will go into the reasons why I supported that and why I will have problems ultimately voting for it if we do not hold tightly to what hit the floor earlier. Mr. President, I just want to talk…
I must rise in opposition to certifying Mexico as complying with our drug-trafficking efforts... The fact is section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act requires that the President certify that Mexico has cooperated fully with the United…
I am honored to be able to address this body today once again on the importance of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Balancing the budget is simply no longer an option. The future of our children literally hangs in the…
I oppose partial-birth abortions. These latest facts which have now come to light show that the defense of this indefensible procedure has been built on some outright lies. Yesterday, Wednesday, February 26, in the New York Times, there…
I rise to make a few remarks on the balanced budget constitutional amendment being considered before us today. In the House of Representatives, I was fortunate enough to have been involved with the passage of this amendment during the…
I am delighted to be speaking on the U.S. Senate floor for the first time about balancing the budget and about the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, which I feel is basically very important and critical for future generations…
I rise today in an attempt to restore sanity to our policy of sharing intelligence information with the United Nations. My amendment would amend the 1974 National Security Act to prohibit the sharing of U.S. intelligence information with…
our amendment had put forward particular safeguarding procedures to try to encourage there to be an agreement between the United States and the United Nations on any sort of sharing of information and that we tighten up that procedure…
What we all can agree to that is truly excessive here in Washington is the size of the Federal debt and the size of the Government. We have got over $5 trillion in debt and a government that takes up 22 percent of the overall economy of…
I ask my colleagues and urge them to support this veto override. We need to do this. We need to do this consolidation. If it has not been already pointed out, or even if it has, I would like to reiterate that this is being supported by…
Well, I would think that it would make absolute sense to clean up the highest priority ones first. But I want to inquire of the gentleman of one. Does the gentleman think when we clean up an environmental site that we should pay more to…
It is the Federal Government. It is the Federal Government. For example, hundreds of billions of dollars and many decades will be required to clean up Federal hazardous waste sites. I will give the gentleman some General Accounting Office…
The myth that was created, I want to read these off, it was on the front line of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, charged with renewing our cities, encouraging job creation, providing decent, safe shelter for low-income Americans. We…
If I can ask another question, and I am just giving you this hypothetical question, if this was your company and this was your core product that you had to have good results out of, and you were having these sort of results, they would not…
What we are saying in this bill is, let us let the State Department itself pick and choose which would be the most effective now, at this point in time, so that they could implement what Secretary Baker and what Secretary Christopher have…
It helps by virtue of allowing the key foreign policy leader for this country who the President has appointed, the Secretary of State, the added flexibility to be able to say in a time of declining budget, ``I have this as a higher…
I want to talk about one particular example in this area that we are talking about, a magical bureaucracy being able to solve an issue. This is the agency of HUD, Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Speaker, I would like to start this off…
I think we would have renewed our cities, encouraged job creation, and provided decent, safe shelter for low-income Americans.
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