John Kerry

I ask the Senator from North Carolina, I think he is correct to bring this question of debt before the U.S. Senate. I think it is an important issue. The question is whether we should not withhold the amount of money commensurate with what…

Clearly we are not going to be prevented from what we think is right. The question is whether we can find a strong and forcible best means of sending this message. I simply ask the Senator whether or not that or a number of other methods I…

They can talk about Harry Wu. The conference is going to happen. The Senator keeps talking as if we are not participating.

Therefore we should, I think, be able to arrive at language--driven at by the Senator from Michigan--that achieves an avoidance of the ambiguity, but without creating a new potential for disruption of that cost analysis.

I could walk the Senator through now literally section by section, and I think that when you do that, the ambiguity sort of leaps out at you. And when you have to go from one section to the other and then ultimately find in the remote…

Why can the simple language not say, in the event of a conflict, the underlying statute prevails?

The problem I think we are underscoring here--and I cannot for the life of me understand the restraint on a simple clarification which actually codifies the stated intent of the Senator in this colloquy. I mean, this is very simple…

But the underlying statute--if I can say to the Senator, I have the examples. I did not come to the floor with them at this moment because I came from another meeting. But this particular colloquy was taking place. I can assure the Senator…

And the judgment made by the agency would be, does this rule or some--at the moment, we make the standard according to health-based and technology-based criteria. And we make an evaluation as to what are the benefits of reducing the air…

Under your language of least-cost alternative, and the distinction between quantifiable and nonquantifiable, the agency would be restricted to the $100 expenditure and 100 lives, even though $105 could save you 150 lives.

If we have a statute--the underlying statute suggests that, for reasons of the health of our citizens, we want to achieve a minimum reduction in emission standards to 10 parts per million--a minimum standard. But the legislation empowers…

Let me ask the Senator this. Does the Senator believe that it is possible to quantify the number of hospitalization cases for emphysema or lung complications that might follow from reducing air quality to a certain level of parts per…

But we cannot look at the needs of this country exclusively in terms of an arbitrary approach to the deficit reduction. We have to look at the other two deficits that the Nation faces. There is such a thing as investment, and there is such…

Since 1978, right up until the present, there has been a dramatic turnaround where the lower three-fifths of America are going downhill; the fourth quintile has risen marginally, about 5 percent; and the top 20 percent are the people who…

We desperately need a better regimen for managing the fisheries of this country. It is my hope that colleagues, while we wrestle with the symbols and the quick hot buttons of the American political process, will focus on a program of…

Could I ask the Senator what in that article is radical and what particularly is radical about suggesting that the ``new peace leadership should be composed of Senators, Congressmen, Governors, mayors, businessmen, all the straight people…

I believe that, all things considered, the bill before us today is a strong environmental package that protects marine mammals and treats fairly all those who interact with them.

I agree with the Senator, and that is what I am trying to a get at. I assume the Senator would agree that, if the Senate today were to pass a requirement that the President lift the embargo, but, as a result of other efforts that the…

But may I say to the Senator, if the behavior continued--and here you have obviously an extraordinarily difficult issue to work out with the Russians--but you would have to make it clear that that was an option on the list. Obviously, the…

My colleague from Connecticut says he does not think it would be. Let me say to my friend that the Bosnian Serbs have made it clear that if the United States is perceived as somehow entering the conflict of this particular moment in a way…

If you just take the last comment he made, in which he suggested that we need somebody who believes more deeply in freedom and democracy and free enterprise, I do not know of anything in the record, or outside of the record, or anything in…

Section 308(b) of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 U.S.C. 4107) authorizes appropriations for ``a commercial fisheries failure or serious disruption affecting future production due to a fishery resource disaster.'' The…

My understanding is that chapter VIII of H.R. 3759 would appropriate $550 million to the President for unanticipated needs resulting from the Los Angeles earthquake and other disasters. Under chapter VIII, funds for emergency expenses…

The Congress finds that-- (A) The international boundaries between the independent countries of the former Yugoslavia are the same as the internal borders among the constituent republics of the former Yugoslavia as specified in the 1974…

I thank the Senator from Arizona. This is a very important amendment, on a very important subject. The Senator is absolutely correct that there is an ultimate moment of confrontation. Certainly, there is an ultimate moment of…