John Sarbanes

What about the requirement on unions that they list the employees whose total of salaries and other disbursements exceed $10,000, including position, gross salary, allowances, and disbursements? What about that requirement that is imposed…

Has the Senator examined, with any care, the reporting requirements and the other matters that govern labor union reporting under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act?

You cannot evaluate the parallelism of the McConnell amendment without evaluating the requirements that are now imposed upon labor unions under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. The argument that this is logical is…

This is something we have been looking at over the last week or 10 days, thinking that, since the very worthwhile requirements of corporations and accounting firms, under the bill of the Senator from Maryland, make sense if we are looking…

I must say, when I saw that article, the first thing I thought to myself was: They must have figured out some sort of unique way to achieve some savings in the college loan program which will not affect the beneficiaries of the program. It…

Age 21, I might add, or 22, and they are already walking out, after getting their education, with a $16,000 average debt. A lot of them, as the Senator points out, have more.

This provision is a win-win situation for the Bay and farmers. It will reduce nutrient inputs to the Bay and it will enable farmers to lower their operating costs by avoiding the cost of unneeded fertilizer, without risking loss of a…

This is far overdue already. There are people now out of work who are hurting. The unemployment insurance for many of them has already run out. For others, it will soon run out. This is not an effort, as the Senator from Oklahoma…

I want to add one dimension of this--the loss of cost in Federal revenue. There is also an impact of this on State revenue. One of the problems we are confronting by this economic downturn is what it has done to State budgets. Bonus…

In fact, as I understand it, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report evaluating the various stimulus options: Extending the period during which such expensing could be used would reduce the bang for the buck because it would…

I want to clarify that it was the conference committee's intent that a portion of the additional funding provided in the Army Corps of Engineers operations and maintenance account for the Jennings Randolph Lake project will be used to…

In light of U.S. national security needs, I feel Congress is justified in extending the DPA's authorization for two years. I am prepared, however, to work with the Senator from Wyoming to review his concerns with the DPA when the Banking…

It has been both an honor and privilege to work with Peter these many years. He has been not only a superb member of my staff, but also among my closest and dearest friends. I consider myself, and the citizens of Maryland, fortunate to…

I am perfectly prepared to accept this amendment. And I think introducing this quality concept about which he spoke yesterday is an important improvement and addition to this bill.

Yes. The President could do that. Generally speaking, the President would use 212 and 213 in addressing foreign availability and mass marketing, because that is the process, as I spelled out, that has certain benefits that flow from its…

No. I don't want to bring in 201(d) under 212 or 213 because 201(d) is over and above 212 and 213. This is a tremendous authority to give to the President. It is over and above. If you subsumed them under, then you would be creating…

Surely 212 defines how the President can carve out from 211 foreign availability, and 213 defines how the President can set aside mass market status determinations, both of which are in section 211. So 211 sets out these things, and then…

I must say to you, on this issue I have always been sensitive to the national security and foreign policy arguments. In the past, in considering this legislation, I have never been one who sort of willy-nilly wanted to remove export…

In working with the Senators from Washington and Alabama, it is our understanding that they intend to work with the conferees to retain funding at the House level. Because of the Federal Government's ownership, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge…

I close with this thought. It is indicative of her wonderful accomplishments with respect to the Washington Post that one can say, as I say now with confidence, that the Post will continue to be a great newspaper. Kay Graham…

I thank the leader for offering this moment of silence in honor of Detective Gibson and Officer Chestnut and the sacrifice they made. It represents the sacrifice so many men and women make each day in the Capitol so that the Nation's…

Actually, they knew what was in the train because they had the railroad manifest of what was contained in the railroad cars. They knew, in fact, there was hazardous material being carried in some of the 60 cars that were on that train…

I commend the Senator for that initiative. I think it is extremely important. I think we have to get across the understanding that these public investments in infrastructure are essential to the private sector activity. In other words…

I thank the Senator. They are still working on that problem. It has not been fully resolved yet. I received a message from Mayor O'Malley that the fire is still smoldering. But they have had terrific intergovernmental cooperation…

I urge Members to approve the nomination. Mr. Ferguson has been serving on the Federal Reserve Board and was nominated by President Clinton. His nomination was resubmitted by President Bush. The committee reported out overwhelmingly in…