I rise today with a tremendous sense of pride and great pleasure to inform my colleagues that a citizen of the great State of Maine has been elected national commander of the American Legion. As many in this Chamber are aware, the American…

In that letter they state that they regard this action as ``a substantial alteration of a material term'' of the agreement and that they will ``exercise their option of rejecting the settlement and continuing the prosecution of their…

I quote just briefly from Stephanie D'Amico's letter. She wrote: College is one of the best investments we can make in America's future. It is critical to a strong democracy and a healthy economy. To me personally it represents opportunity…

Mr. Speaker, I was sent to Congress in 1993 by the people of the Third District of Georgia with a very specific list of legislative goals. The budget agreement negotiated between the Congress and the President includes many of those goals…

Mr. President, I am delighted to join my colleagues, particularly Senator McCain and Senator Feingold, in announcing our intent to bring bipartisan campaign finance reform legislation to a vote in September. At the State level, Maine has…

I also want to again applaud his efforts to ensure that we have adequate funding for our transportation infrastructure, which is so vital to this Nation's prosperity.

It has a very poor record on human rights issues. It has repeatedly violated trade agreements. It engages in unacceptable weapons proliferation activities. It denies the religious freedom of its citizens. It maintains an antidemocratic…

it is particularly troubling to uncover these apparent contracting abuses in the Office of the Inspector General, the very official who is supposed to be the watchdog against waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal departments. Again, I thank…

Mr. Chairman, there is a proposed move by the USDA of an experiment station in Griffin, GA to another location. This station has been in place since 1949. Over the last few years, in fact the last 7 years, we have spent some $2.5 million…

I rise today to commend the members of the Senate Finance Committee, ably led by chairman Roth and ranking member Moynihan, for their willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion to bring meaningful and much-needed tax relief to the…

I want to relate a conversation, a personal conversation that I had with President Bill Clinton in April of 1995, standing in the little White House in Warm Springs, GA, the Georgia home of F.D.R., F.D.R., who was considered the working…

H.R. 1316 will amend the Federal Employee Group Life Insurance Act and ensure that there is a level playing field between State laws that govern private insurance and Federal statute that provides guidelines for life insurance policies…

I am pleased to speak about S. 930, the College Affordability and Access Act of 1997, which I introduced yesterday. More than 30 years ago, Congress took the historic step of authorizing Federal student aid programs for the purpose of…

first let me say that I applaud the leadership and the determination of Senator Leahy and Senator Hagel to bring this very important issue of landmine deployment before the Senate. We speak today on behalf of people around the world whose…

as the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I want to take this opportunity to highlight a growing problem with securities fraud in this country--a problem which affects thousands of American families who are now…

during this past weekend, 14 students from St. Dominic Regional High School in Lewiston, ME, joined with almost 1,200 other high school students from across the Nation to participate in the national finals for the ``We the People''…

today I am proud to be introducing the Family Business and Family Farm Preservation Act of 1997, which will provide urgently needed estate tax relief to our Nation's family-owned businesses and farms. It is no accident that this is my…

Senate Resolution 60 pays tribute to the 3,600 students who have participated in the U.S. Senate Youth Program over the last 35 years. Under this program, which has been very successfully administered by the William Randolph Hearst…

along with Senator Hutchison and Senator Wyden, I am pleased to submit this resolution to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the William Randolph Hearst U.S. Senate Youth Program. As the first graduate of the program to become a U.S…

I rise to urge Senate approval of the balanced budget constitutional amendment. Some have argued that a constitutional amendment is not needed to ensure a balanced budget, but history clearly demonstrates that, despite good intentions, we…