let me just point out, we understand fully the ownership of INA in Japan. That is not the question. The question is in the activities of the Yasuda Insurance Company in Japan and what they are doing to affect the market of the third sector…

our republic recently celebrated 222 years of liberty and freedom. For the last 209 years, these freedoms have been guaranteed by our Constitution. In spite of this, the Clinton administration is now trying to undermine the Constitution…

I rise today to thank the Senator from Mississippi, the distinguished chairman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, for so generously honoring my request to support the USDA-Agricultural Research Service's New England Plant…

Mr. Speaker, as one small representative, I rise in support of this conference report. This legislation will provide many new protections to ensure that IRS abuse ends. Mr. Speaker, no citizen should fear their government nor any agency of…

since coming to the Senate and assuming the Chairmanship of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of my top priorities has been the seemingly never-ending fight to ferret out and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal…

Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of prodemocracy students on Tiananmen Square in Beijing by troops acting under the orders of the Communist Government of China. In memory of the brave students who suffered…

In the short time that I will take to deliver these remarks, a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer. And every 12 minutes, a woman will die from it. Just this past year, breast cancer has touched my life twice: one member of staff…

I am really surprised and shocked that apparently there is objection on the Democratic side of the aisle to consideration of this important resolution. I had hoped that we would consider this evening a resolution expressing the sense of…

4 years ago the Columbus, Georgia Water Works Board established the goal of having the best water system in the Nation by the year 2000. With the guidance and experience of its president, Billy G. Turner, that goal has been achieved. On…

we should not delude ourselves about who will end up paying the cost and price of these requirements. Ultimately, the cost of compliance will be shifted from the schools to the students and their families. As a result, the value of the…

Senator DeWine and I are offering an amendment to reduce some of the burdensome reporting requirements placed on educational institutions by the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits. These education tax incentives, which…

On May 2-4, 1998, more than 1,200 students from across the nation were in Washington, D.C. to compete in the national finals of the We the People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution program. I am proud to announce that a class from Old…

The Workforce Investment Partnership Act restates the Senate's long commitment to vocational education, adult education, job training, and vocational rehabilitation. Yet it does more than just continue this tradition; it builds upon our…

America's home health agencies provide invaluable services that have enabled a growing number of our most frail and vulnerable senior citizens to avoid hospitals and nursing homes and stay just where they want to be--in their own homes…

this system also gives a competitive advantage to high-cost agencies over their lower cost neighbors, since agencies in a particular region may have dramatically different reimbursement levels regardless of any differences among their…

the matter of NATO expansion is perhaps the single most important foreign policy or defense issue to come before Congress this year. Because of the complexity of the issues involved, the importance of this decision, and its implications…

it was Samuel Johnson who said in 1777 that the knowledge that you will be hanged in a fortnight does wonders to concentrate your mind. In 1998, former Senate Majority Leader and Maine Senator George Mitchell proved the truth of this…

I rise in support of No. 555 on the Executive Calendar, the nomination of Kermit Lipez, of Maine, to the first circuit. Mr. President, it is an honor and a pleasure to rise to speak in support of the nomination of Justice Kermit Lipez to…

I am honored to congratulate Fort Benning, Georgia, for winning the Army Community of Excellence Chief of Staff Award. This is the sixth consecutive year that Fort Benning has been recognized as the best Army installation in the United…

I was totally surprised by the attitude of our soldiers upon my first arrival in Bosnia, about how positive they were about what they were doing and why they are there. I was totally set back, I was not expecting this, and I thought to…

contrary to the assertions of opponents to this legislation, the fact is that it will bring more money to our public schools, and it is a very pro-education pro-public-schools piece of legislation that the Senator from Georgia has brought…

Similarly, I ask the Senator from Georgia to clarify that the money in these A+ accounts could be used in fact to assist children that are attending public schools. I believe that is one of the purposes of this bill. For example, am I…

approximately 70 percent of the parents who would benefit from this important legislation have children in public schools.

Mr. Chairman, the foundation of our American republic is built upon the idea that citizens have the inherent right to life, liberty, and property. In fact, throughout the writings of our Founding Fathers, the right to property is viewed as…

I particularly support its expansion of outreach efforts designed to help emerging small businesses compete for Federal contracts. I think that those specific provisions of the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky would truly be…