John Kerry

It was my intention, before the leader came to the floor, and also in response to the Senator from Kentucky, to point out that the issue is not really simply whether or not we can finish the so-called important business of the Senate if…

I will just say to my friend from Rhode Island, when I was in this discussion with the British minister just last week, he was quite dumbstruck, in fact, that Senators here are still questioning the science or that some people want to make…

Mr. President, the subcommittee has allocated $50 million for the clean-up of Boston Harbor, a modest sum given the magnitude of the challenge and the scope and cost of the clean-up project. While the residents of Boston continue to face…

I would ask him that, now having at least established one can arrive at a control, the issue is whether or not the Government might play a role in that? I ask the Senator if he is aware that, in a number of States and in a number of…

The committee report, on page 15, indicates that both the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] and HUD's inspector general pointed out that under the current performance evaluation [PHMAP] system, a PHA can escape ``troubled''…

I have a question regarding section 107(d) of S. 462, which adds a new performance indicator for the extent to which the public housing agency is providing acceptable basic housing conditions. I do not see what could be much more…

I rise in support of S. 462 and urge all my colleagues to support this public housing reform legislation. This is an important piece of legislation. It contains many of the key ingredients needed to bring the public housing program back to…

I fought for this compromise because it includes the critical element missing from the original bill: enhanced protection for depleted dolphin stocks on the basis of sound science before any changes are made to U.S. law to ease…

I don't disagree with what Senator Byrd has just said. In a sense, I should correct my own comment when I talk about the Berlin mandate. Obviously, we are altering the way in which we are approaching the question of inclusiveness. When I…

I would like to ask the views of the Senator from West Virginia on the proposal by the Europeans to erect the so-called European bubble, and its effect on U.S. competitiveness. It appears to me that this proposal is driven more by economic…

Will the Senator agree further that an emissions trading scheme also has the beneficial effect of easing the economic cost that might be incurred by U.S. industry as a result of a regime of binding commitments entered into at Kyoto?

Let me just also say to the Senator that I agree completely with his notion, as I said earlier, of the importance of our advising here about the importance of other countries being part of the solution. But I ask if the Senator would agree…

To answer the Senator, since he wanted to engage in this discussion, no one has suggested any such thing, and I would be against that, also. Second, the Senator would have to agree with me that this resolution is silent on the issue of…

This is a modification mutually arrived at together with Senator Smith of New Hampshire and Senator McCain in an effort to try to improve the intelligence-gathering process with respect to POW/MIA matters, and I thank Senator Smith of New…

As I mentioned, Senator Hagel, Senator Bob Kerrey, Senator Chuck Robb, Senator Max Cleland, Senator John McCain and myself are joining together to introduce a resolution with respect to Cambodia.

But we can't allow an endless series of questions to be an excuse for putting us in the box where the U.S. Senate cannot perform its constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on a treaty as important as this one. So we are in the…

Come to cloture on these issues, and, if they can't come to that resolution, this should be on the floor of the Senate for us to deal with in a matter of legislative urgency. I know, Mr. President, that there is a significant group of us…

What we would like to suggest is that there be sort of an internal date certain within the Senate--we would suggest that date be when we return--that, between now and when we return, the administration, the chairman, and the appropriate…

Like so many other aspects of our national security today, arms sales and other military assistance needs still to be adjusted to the realities of the post-cold-war world. The central theme of our foreign policy has changed from…

This vote today is about whether or not the U.S. Senate is willing to stay here and work to produce campaign finance reform or whether it is happier with the status quo. That is the vote. It is very simple.

This amendment would add back the President's level of funding for environmental cleanup. It adds back $7.3 billion over the 6-year period. That would go specifically to EPA enforcement, to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Could I reiterate? We were able to work out, obviously, a very agreeable approach to the question on health care which stymied us in a similar way for a period of time. I want to reiterate to the majority leader, we are not trying to kill…

We would like to have an answer. We would like to have a time. We work this out in the Senate all the time. We have an agreement with respect to the health care bill. We know there will be a time certain for debate on an issue of major…

I cannot understand why Senator Dole, who previously voted to raise the minimum wage, would not want to raise the minimum wage above what soon will be a 40-year low in purchasing power. The minimum wage in this country soon will be at a…

If we can spend a minute on the Bosnia issue, we might be able to resolve that, hopefully, with Senator Nunn and other interested parties and come up with language quickly on which we can move forward.