Gerald Ford

Some of my colleague on that side of the aisle do not like our President. Some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle may not like the Speaker. Some of my colleagues on that side of the aisle may not like other colleagues of theirs…

I don't understand. They just tried to throw a wet blanket on it to say it was undoing welfare reform because, after we have had it in place for 2 years we found there was a kink in it? I didn't know that we were perfect.

I appreciate all the cooperation and good humor that has been displayed as we have moved along the way. I have been impressed by the staff that Senator McCain has assembled to assist him. I have been amazed at the staff that we have, and…

I am not going to pursue this issue. Again, I spent too many hundreds of hours working with the Senator from Kentucky for us to end up in some disagreement over an issue such as this before completion of the bill that is called the Wendell…

My friend and colleague is not here, the manager of the bill from the majority side. We have discussed this between us and the Senator's statement, as far as I am concerned, is absolutely true. He has worked hard on it, done a lot of hard…

I found out--to validate the point of the Senator from North Dakota--that it costs more to fly from Des Moines, IA, to Chicago, IL, than it does from Chicago, IL, to Tokyo. Now, these distortions have to be fixed because we are penalizing…

Well, I say this to my friend and my leader and my party. I would urge the President to come clean at this point. For he has admitted that he has lied. He has disappointed us in his party and disappointed many in this Nation. For it is…

The Senator from Texas said time and time again that we were destroying the medical system. With the AMA and 170 medical organizations in this country for our particular bill, I do not believe there is any indication that we are trying to…

We do have a marriage bonus that is now for the upper income. The marriage bonus, you know, is quite lucrative. I have a bill to eliminate the marriage penalty also. So I am basically agreeing with what you are trying to do. But when I…

I am not particularly worried about when you have a vote on final passage. I am worrying about cutting off amendments, so that when Monday comes and somebody thinks of another amendment, they will be cut off.

You are already doing that. You are in the tobacco industry. You are attacking the tobacco industry, and it is all about tobacco.

I join my colleague in introducing this legislation today to ensure one thing, Mr. President--that the American public continues to have access to the Government information. As my friend has said, it pays to produce. It is the people's…

I understand what the majority leader is saying, what he is trying to do. But if he continued to push these amendments over to a piece of legislation at a later time, then you are going to have all these amendments that are waiting, and…

Why are we singling out this Federal facility? We really do not know the full scope of this issue and this precedent we are creating by preempting State law. The employees of Fort Campbell wherever they reside--benefit from services…

Then you have to get the money from somewhere. As I read the amendment, I say to my friend, that would take 46 percent of the money raised by the tobacco bill. So the States get 40 percent and you get 46 percent. That is 86 percent of all…

He is alive. Mr. McCain. In that the bill is alive, than I did some sense of exhilaration. So I also am very aware of how difficult this agriculture--tobacco farmer issue is to the Senator from Kentucky. He and I have worked together for…

I will be more than happy to do that. As the majority leader set out the sequence of getting this bill out of here, that we would have to pull a bill from the calendar in order to have a tax bill to put this one on to get it back to the…

And I prefer it not to be under cloture, when my time is limited. Mr. McCain. I understand. I think it is important the Senator's concerns be satisfied. I think the Senator from Massachusetts and I, along with the leaders, should sit down…

The only reason I am asking is, we have the budget process. The Senator from New Mexico, Senator Domenici, has worked hard on this. It should not be jammed up because of a hold on the Senate floor for an individual who has nothing to do…

I approve of what you have been doing. I think you have a hard job and you have done well. One thing that bothers me--you come to Kentucky to see friends and family one of these days. There are a lot of holds here and a lot of people are…

I say to my friend, I take this as if they were doing it to me as an individual and saying that you are going to be penalized--I am going to be penalized if your program doesn't work. And some companies, a brand only has about 1 percent of…

But in this piece of legislation, does HHS have the ability to put on the educational programs that would reduce youth smoking and the tobacco industry would have no control over that?

I am trying to find out an answer here. I understand the marriage penalty. I am opposed to it, and I am trying to find an answer to it and the unfairness of it. In 1986, we repealed the two-earner deduction, but increased the standard…

I understand you are talking about fairness here and you are being unfair to those of us who worked so hard.

It is an extraordinary gift that the people of my State have given to me, because it is a gift only they have to give; that is, through their votes. If there is any significance to this period of service, it is that I have served my people…