I am pleased to join my colleague from Pennsylvania, Senator Specter, in offering this amendment to restore full funding to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program [LIHEAP], which provides assistance to poor households for paying…

I want to commend my colleague from Pennsylvania for offering this amendment. It focus particularly on the amendment dealing with LIHEAP, the low-income heating energy assistance program. This is a program which is vital to States like…

at a time when the public's confidence in the Government's ability to manage its financial affairs on behalf of the taxpayer is dismally low, Congress continues to fuel the public's cynicism by failing to make even the most simple common…

I rise today to join my colleague from Maine in paying tribute to one of our Nation's finest institutions of higher learning, not to mention my and Senator Mitchell's alma mater: Bowdoin College. Bowdoin College was established in 1794…

I rise to offer an amendment to improve our Nation's counterintelligence capabilities. This amendment is identical to S. 1869, which Senator Boren and I introduced last month. When Boris Yeltsin gave his memorable speech to a joint session…

I noted with some interest the findings in title III of the bill that is currently before the Senate in which the committee states: The governments of our most successful competitor nations in the global marketplace have created supportive…

Exactly. As both the Senator from New York and the Senator from Oregon pointed out, you get much more out of the Social Security trust fund than you put in over the years, assuming you live long enough. During that period of time you…

I point out also that there has been historically--and I know the Senator from New York is aware of this--a distinction between the SSI program and the disability insurance program. The reasoning or rationale behind it, as I understand it…

Yes, but not only the GAO. As a result of the minority staff investigation on the Senate Aging Committee, we conducted a year- long investigation, and we asked for the assistance of the GAO as well.

Mr. President, we have a program that is designed to deal with a serious problem in this country; namely, that of drug and alcohol addiction. There are two programs under the Social Security Administration's jurisdiction. One is the…

The people responsible for bringing it to our attention initially were the administrative law judges, the ones hearing the cases, who were saying, ``You should know we have people coming in who are addicted, who are continuing their…

I might say to the Senator that as a result of raising this issue to this level of notice and notoriety that I have received a call from the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, who is coming in to see me at 3 o'clock this…

Yet they are entitled to receive these payments because they are very poor and cannot work. So the law was set up to say that those individuals who have not contributed enough into the system are the ones who must get treatment for their…

Madam President, we are engaged in what I have called fiscal child abuse--fiscal child abuse. We are beating our children with what I would call the equivalent of rubber hoses. The bruises do not show just now. There are no telltale signs…

I recall reading an article by a distinguished columnist and journalist in this city, David Broder. He said, in all of those 1,200 to 1,300 pages, two numbers that were missing. One number was, as I recall, $940 billion. That $940 billion…

last week, Senator Boren and myself introduced a measure to try to respond to the recent incident that revealed that the United States has a major spy problem. I am referring, of course, to the revelation that a CIA employee with access to…

yesterday, I, along with Senators Dole, Kassebaum, Domenici, Thurmond, Kohl, Lugar, Chafee, Warner, Grassley, Stevens, and Bennett, introduced legislation to stop the flow of millions of Federal dollars into the hands of illegal drug…

the nominee being considered by the Senate is a man of great intellect and significant accomplishment. From his selection as a young man to be a Rhodes scholar to his debut as a young scholar translating Khrushchev's memoirs to his…

The answer is ``no.'' There will not have to be a conviction. What is taking place today under current regulations is that the administrative law judges, who carry out Social Security Administration regulations, will have individuals who…

I rise today to express my sympathies to the people of southern California. The devastating earthquake which shook the Los Angeles area last month has left many people dead or injured and thousands of others homeless. I intend to support…

I offer this amendment on behalf of myself, Senators Dole, Kassebaum, D'Amato, Thurmond, and Gorton. From time to time, astounding examples of absurd Federal spending policies come to light and stop us in our tracks. The amendment that I…

today I am announcing a legislative package on behalf of myself and Senators Dole, Kassebaum, Thurmond, D'Amato, and Lugar to reform the Social Security disability process and to stop taxpayers' dollars from fueling the addictions of…

I am pleased to join Senator Kerrey and others in offering this amendment. This amendment is the result of a long process that began last year when a bipartisan group of Senators met to develop a list of significant spending cuts. Many of…

the President of the United States has just submitted a $1.52 trillion budget proposal to Congress and this week will introduce his drug strategy plan. We will soon start rolling up our sleeves to hammer out the details of major health…

the President of the United States has just submitted a $1.52 trillion budget proposal to Congress and this week will introduce his drug strategy plan. We will soon start rolling up our sleeves to hammer out the details of major health…