S. 2260 provides funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to support a joint marine aquaculture education project in Maine. The committee report lists the project sponsor in Maine as the Island Institute, but the…

I recently urged the Federal Trade Commission to reconsider their decision to close the Boston Regional Office and move all area activity for consumer protection and antitrust matters to New York City. The Boston office has served the…

this amendment will help ensure that America's veterans get the health care and services they deserve as close to home as possible. My amendment does two things: It expresses the sense of the Senate that it should be the goal of the VA to…

The Byrd amendment would essentially eliminate all gender-integrated training at basic levels. The decision we made last night was to uphold the congressional commission that was created on military training and gender-related issues to…

First and foremost, this doesn't cost a single cent to the Federal Government. When we hear about the fact, well, it is going to cost some money because of the use of the hospital, the use of medical personnel, I think we all recognize the…

As the Senior Noncommissioned Officers of the Armed Forces of the United States, we feel compelled to state our disagreement with a proposed amendment on recruit training that might be considered during the Senate's debate of the FY99…

I am pleased to be the lead cosponsor of the Microcredit for Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998. This bipartisan measure is an excellent means of fighting poverty and allowing the world's enterprising poor to escape it. Microcredit programs…

I want to address the Senate this morning with respect to the national tobacco policy legislation that has been on the floor this week. I hope in the final analysis we will be able to come to a common agreement and find common ground on…

S. 1618 is a well-crafted bill that is designed to prevent the unauthorized transferring of a customer's phone carrier. This is accomplished through a variety of provisions, including the threat of strong penalties on telephone companies…

I regret that we have reached a point here where we cannot pass one bill because it is being held hostage to another. No one disagrees with the Senator from Massachusetts in terms of the importance of some of the issues that he has raised…

I am offering a resolution today which expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States, at the next meeting of the International Whaling Commission in two weeks, should remain firmly opposed to commercial whaling and should oppose…

Mr. President, while my legislation has not yet been acted on, I believe the legislation now before the Senate--S. 1186, the Workforce Investment Partnership Act (WIPA) provides us with an excellent opportunity to address the training…

as we approach a new century with a globally competitive economy that increasingly puts pressure on many domestic industries, I believe it is critical that Congress recognize and address a serious need in our nation's workforce: the need…

the FY 1999 budget resolution is the first resolution that has been crafted since the historic balanced budget agreement was reached and enacted just 10 short months ago. I would first like to congratulate the Chairman of the Budget…

1998 will long be remembered in the State of Maine as the year of the Ice Storm. In early January the state was coated with more than three inches of ice--the result of a once in a lifetime storm that left more than 80 percent of the State…

The Leahy-Abraham amendment makes a clear distinction between the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is not a Great Lake. There are only five Great Lakes--Michigan, Superior, Huron, Ontario, and Erie. The Leahy-Abraham…

Well, obviously, we are talking about political advertising that is sponsored by organizations. That is what we are identifying here because that is obviously playing the primary role.

The courts have allowed and made those distinctions in the past where we can draw a line in terms of methods of communicating and have allowed different rules for public airwaves. We are focusing on the most egregious abuses that have been…

My concern--and I think shared by others, such as Senator Jeffords, who is a lead sponsor of this amendment as well--we are concerned about the political advertising that is in these campaigns, hundreds of millions of dollars, where there…

I think we are taking the approach in this amendment to draw it as narrowly as possible so that we do not affect the first amendment rights. So, we are taking the most prudent, most cautious approach in designing this amendment.

The Snowe-Jeffords amendment is fully consistent with the view that the Furgatch decision and the FEC regulation may be a constitutional approach for detecting ads that pretend to discuss issues, but are really attacks on candidates. If…

before we vote on the motion to table the Snowe-Jeffords amendment I want to thank Senator Jeffords for his tremendous work and leadership on this issue, as well as the cosponsors of the amendment--Senators Levin, Lieberman, McCain…

Opponents of reforms assert that they would violate freedom of speech. But what they are really protecting is the freedom to spend unlimited dollars to corrupt our democratic process.

Stopping issue ad abuse is critical to meaningful campaign finance reform. But distinguishing candidate ads from issue ads based on ad content is the Supreme Court's approach in Buckley versus Valeo; it is an approach that the courts are…

That is correct--our amendment is not intended to convey any criticism of the FEC. The Buckley magic words test is a very narrow one, and has proven completely ineffective in stopping phony issue ads that attack candidates. My amendment…