shortly after Christmas, the New York Times printed a very one-sided portrayal of the National Guard. In that article, a senior Defense Department official is quoted as saying, ``There's a lot of the Army National Guard that's just…

that is somewhat different from the Ethics Committee or a grand jury investigation. When staff is called to go before the committee, to have representation, the Senate pays for that. The Senate furnishes attorneys. If the Senator himself…

would the Senator have some idea how much legal expense by the individual witnesses--I saw a story in the paper today. We begin at $50,000 and $60,000 and $400,000, and individuals are being called before the Whitewater Committee that are…

today, I am pleased to join the distinguished Senator from South Dakota, Senator Pressler, and the Senator from South Carolina, Senator Hollings, in supporting the conference report to S. 652, the telecommunications reform bill. As a…

the farm bill has become a focal point now for legislation in Washington and not too soon. I think it is the first time in 40 or 50 years we have failed to enact a farm bill in the year that the farm program expired. So we are a year late…

let me just make two points. I think we have maybe a couple minutes left. Two points. One, for the last 3 years the deficit, under President Clinton, has been reduced by 50 percent. There will be fewer Federal employees, 272,000 under that…

It is awful hard to address through the Chair. Here on December 15--Mr. President, we talk about never wanting to offer anything. What bothers me is that on December 15, the President offered some numbers based on a budget he had submitted…

Personally, his effort, the long hours and how hard he works. It is just like the distinguished Senator in the chair has indicated: We have a difference, and we need to let everything else go on while we settle that difference. And I…

It is the law--and let me underscore that now--it is the law. Both the Social Security law--it is attached to title XLII, section 911--and the Budget Act, title II, section 3631, mandate--and I underscore mandate--that ``the social…

I hope that we will put Federal employees back to work. Well, that is fine. I want them to go back to work, too. I do not think anybody likes to pay people for not working. That was what the majority leader said the other day, that he grew…

No. It is my understanding that when you related to figures that you reduced the amount of reduction using $135 billion, that the White House on December 15th moved toward your figures--moved toward your figures on discretionary, moved…

I worked Saturday. I worked Sunday. I put in what I thought were long, hard days, and we moved toward you. And I congratulate you, you were moving toward us. I just thought we were on the right track rather than getting into the mess that…

all my life I have heard the saying, ``Can't see the forest for the trees.'' I think those words can be appropriately applied to the situation we now find ourselves in. For too many Federal workers, for too many thousands of honest…

I believe that the Presidential candidates are involved in a conflict of interest in New Hampshire, since that State has retroactively asked for same day election day registration. We have an amendment in this bill that would allow them to…

first, let me state my support for the amendment being offered concerning aviation security requirements to the substitute to S. 735, the terrorism prevention bill, offered by Senator Hatch. I know that Senator Hatch has worked hard to…

Since he is the floor manager of the bill, regardless of whether cloture is voted tomorrow or not, what amendments and how many would he think we might have? Does he have a ballpark figure? There are a good many amendments that have been…

I wish to voice my opposition to any efforts to privatize parts of the Federal Power Marketing Administrations including the Southwestern, Southeastern, or Western Area Power Administration. This Nation made a commitment to bring…

On our side. We are trying to put it together where we can get that agreement. It becomes very difficult. We understand that there is no budget out here. We are trying to get rescissions in this year's allowances. That cuts off a lot of…

because of the way that the quotes were lifted from my speeches, this action can only be viewed as intentional. Senator Lott falsely states that I was talking about the balanced budget amendment that had been introduced by his side of the…

in the 21 years I have served in this body, I have never seen the level of partisanship that we are seeing on the balanced budget amendment. So maybe I should not have been shocked last Friday to see my colleague from Mississippi, Senator…

I for one am fed up with this type of political mudslinging. It does a disservice to serious discussion of the issue, and I hope that the American people are tired of it, too. I hope that this incident forces my colleague and his…

as my good friend from Alaska, the chairman of the Rules Committee, has stated, before the Senate this afternoon is Senate Resolution 73. It is the 2-year budget authorization for Senate committees for the years 1995 and 1996. It continues…

I take the floor to join my colleague from Wisconsin and my other colleagues in support of their attempt to ease our seniors' fears and to help set some parameters for the debate on the balanced budget amendment. The fact is, the Social…

Railroad employees are under Social Security. They have been transferred to the Social Security. The railroad retirement system has been merged with Social Security, and Social Security is the railroad retirement fund.

My father-in-law is a railroad retiree, and he gets his check from Social Security. Now, Mr. President, I do not know what it is, what kind of fund he has, but they did not have enough funds to take care of it and they turned it over to…