I want to thank Senator Helms for accepting my Sense of the Senate amendment. This amendment expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should impose certain, targeted sanctions against officials and companies working for the…

on April 21 President Clinton issued an Executive order purporting to defend America's children from environmental health and safety risks. At the very end of this order was a simple, but cryptic statement. That statement was, ``Executive…

these Tastykakes were the bet of the Senator from Pennsylvania to our Little Caesars pizzas from Detroit. I might add that Red Wings' owner Mike Illitch is also the owner of Little Caesars. While I now have some bragging rights on the…

thank you very much. I am happy to be here today. My plane arrived on time, which I was a little nervous about because I was afraid I would miss the opportunity to join our colleagues in talking about the great Senator from the State of…

let me begin by praising Senator Domenici and the other negotiators for their hard work and diligence. They have worked for almost 4 months to put this resolution together and end the 18-month stalemate between the President and Congress…

I rise today to address United States policy toward China. When Ronald Reagan visited China in 1984, he declared in a speech that: Economic growth and human progress make their greatest strides when people are secure and free to think…

now that the budget resolution has been adopted, I wanted to take a few moments to discuss several of the more important votes that took place. The first of these was the Hatch-Kennedy amendment. This amendment was characterized as an…

Basically, Mr. President, this amendment tries to address a concern that a number of my constituents, and I suspect constituents from other States, have expressed in recent weeks with respect to the development of this budget. As the…

Obviously, abortion is an issue on which people disagree. We have seen much of that disagreement expressed here on the floor of the Senate. We see it expressed in the debates, whether it is at public meetings or around coffee tables around…

I was struck--and as the testimony I have had printed in the Record will indicate--by the efforts on the part of the advocates to try to fuzz up this issue and make assertions that were patently inaccurate and inconsistent during the…

I believe it is important we review the vote conducted earlier today regarding the Warner amendment to distribute supplemental highway funds by the ISTEA formulas rather than by the new arbitrary standard delineated in the supplemental…

the bill before us addresses the effects of natural disasters which occurred in the Midwest and California. I would like, right now, to address a portion of the bill that is designed to prevent a man-made disaster. That provision, the…

Today I join with Senator Levin to introduce an amendment which will help close the door on the canceled Center for Ecology Research and Training [CERT], and end a difficult chapter for the city of Bay City, MI. In the late 1980's, the…

I rise to introduce on behalf of myself, Senator Kennedy, Senator Hatch, Senator DeWine, and Senator Durbin, a short, technical bill to correct a drafting error in last year's immigration bill that could wrongly deny U.S. citizenship to…

I take a few minutes to talk about the Volunteer Protection Act and to respond to some of what I considered to be unjustified criticisms of the act which we have heard on the floor in recent hours. As I mentioned yesterday when we began…

this week in Philadelphia, President Clinton is joining former Presidents Bush and Ford, along with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell at a summit to promote voluntarism. I commend any and all efforts to increase…

As I noted in my past remarks a moment or so ago, today in Philadelphia, PA, some of the leaders of our country, former Presidents as well as President Clinton and numerous other elected officials and volunteer leaders from around the…

Yesterday, the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] officially released its legal immigration numbers for 1996. Attached please find an analysis by the staff of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee that helps place these numbers…

over the past 30 years, family immigration has contributed to a virtual renaissance of small business culture in the United States, according to Prof. Jimy M. Sanders of the University of South Carolina, a witness at a recent hearing of…

I rise today to cosponsor Senate bill 438, a bill that will help close a costly loophole in the current administration of Social Security benefits. I commend my colleague, Senator Grassley, for introducing this important bill, the No Cash…

April 15 is a day that generally is viewed with consternation throughout the United States. For many loggers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, however, tax day is synonymous with bankruptcy. This is because the IRS insists on enforcing a…

we made several reforms during the last Congress intended to put Members of this body in closer touch with the American people. Among those reforms were provisions applying to Members of Congress the same laws that apply to private…

I rise to address recent revelations concerning partial birth abortion. I also rise to draw my colleagues' attention to the letter sent to President Clinton by a group of American Roman Catholic leaders and read this past Sunday by…

The reason we are here is because of what that pile of unbalanced budgets reflects--that this country has gone a full generation without once balancing the budget. It has not balanced it using Social Security or excluding it. It has not…

I rise today to give some opening remarks with respect to the resolution on the balanced budget that is now before us. I suspect during the course of the next several weeks in the debate that is ahead, I will probably be here several more…