John Kerry

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…

I want my colleagues to understand the facts here. This case began as an administrative inquiry, with no immediate evidence of wrongdoing. The violations or potential violations of law were not discovered until the process of the…

Senator Bradley, Senator Feingold, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Bumpers, and I and others join together in offering an amendment, a rescission amendment, that cuts $43 billion over 5 years; $3 billion this year. We are looking for a way to…

There has been a virtual collapse of groundfish stocks like haddock and cod in much of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. The neighboring Canadian fishery will be shut down completely for at least 5 years. The U.S. Department of Commerce is…

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…

I share the view of the gentleman from West Virginia that the work of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission is vital to the long-term stability of our bilateral relationship with Japan and provides it with the balance necessary to…

Without his support within our committee for the committee structure that he helped put together, I do not think we would have developed the kind of consensus that we have been able to develop on these pieces of legislation that have…

On behalf of Senator Mitchell, I offered a second-degree amendment which reflects the current policy of the Clinton administration. It was my hope that the Senator and I would be able to get together on this amendment in order to permit…

I wanted the Record to reflect that this is an issue that we on the committee have been deeply concerned about. I have raised it personally with Thais authorities when I have been there. The Senator and I have talked about it. The recent…

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…

It is not really a question of how much genius it might or might not take. I can see 20 different solutions. I do not think that is the issue. The issue is, should the Senator from New York, having not availed himself of the opportunity…

I do not need any lessons from the Senator from New York about what is usual or unusual here, nor, really, a reinterpretation of the agreement. I am simply trying to protect the rights of all Senators to bring their legislation to the…

Let me say to my friend I have no--it really does not matter to me at what hour of the day the facts he wants to put forward are put forward. I am not afraid of the facts. I do not think anybody is. The issue here is how we can keep faith…

I simply want to enter into a dialog with my friend from New York to try to determine how we can accommodate the Senator from New York without a detrimental impact on those who might be shut out and where we are going here.

But I want to make it clear, we do not accept the full measure of the comments that have accompanied the amendment, and there is nothing in the amendment itself that embraces the notion of accommodation or appeasement. Certainly the…

This amendment expresses the sense of Congress regarding the continued intransigence of North Korea in refusing to comply with the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. For nearly a year, North Korea has refused to allow access to…

What needs to be underscored here is, first, this is a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. It does not mandate or bind us to anything. Second, I ask colleagues to measure what sense of the Senate it expresses. I read directly from the…

I want to underscore one of the important ways in which the current system is working and why this cooperative effort is so important. My colleague has consistently raised some question of the sufficiency of digging and how we are going at…

Let me say to my colleague, I do not contest that we at times have been lied to. I never asserted otherwise. I am trying to create a structure where we can create an accountability where there is not a lie. As I said at the outset of my…

I think one of the most important things here is to have accuracy in the representations. In point of fact, the Senator has not accurately represented documents that we have received. He said that we ought to listen to Senator Bob Kerrey…

General Vessey not only received a battlefield commission and served for 46 years, but I think people ought to focus that this is a man who fought in Vietnam and in Laos. He is a commander. He lives by the rule that you do not leave people…

If you care about the families, let us keep the process open. General Vessey got a battlefield commission in World War II at age 17, served in three wars, became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired with honor and dignity, and…