Gerald Ford

Does the Senator know where Clem Haskins got his training? Western Kentucky University. He was also a coach at Western Kentucky University. I am tickled to death that he gave such improvement to the great State of Minnesota.

I understand you will work it out if you work it out your way. I just want us to have an opportunity to get involved in this. How do you intend to work it out?

I say to my friend, I don't know either. I am doing like he does. He has some friends on his side who object. I have them on my side. I understand everyone is feverishly working on a lot of things. The push to get out of here soon may…

I think negotiations are still available. I hope we can use the same procedure we did with the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill: have an agreement before it is referred back to conference. I think that is still doable. I would not say to my friend…

Let me join my colleague, Senator McCain, in complimenting the Senator from Oregon, Mr. Wyden. He has been a great asset to this institution since he arrived and has been a tremendous asset to the Commerce Committee since he has joined us…

I say to my friend, I haven't seen the amendment, so it is hypothetical. You made a statement that left an inference here on what we were supposed to do, and so I will wait and get a copy of your amendment. I think your intent is good, but…

Sometimes, I say to my friend from Colorado, when you have to publicize the bid, it is in the local paper, and you can go by and pick up blueprints for $25 or $100, or whatever it is, and you take it and work up your estimate. When the bid…

Never forget, my friends, the primary purpose of a political party is to win.

The finger pointing has gone too far here. I think we need to call a quorum, wipe the sweat off, and try to work things out instead of pointing fingers at each other. We are getting too harsh. The majority leader is working hard, trying to…

The objection this morning came from your side, not from this side. It came from your side to bringing things up over a bill that is in the House, not in the Senate.

Let me say to the majority leader on behalf of the Democratic leader that we intend to cooperate with him as much as we can, but I might say to the majority leader, as he understood, the Democratic leader was quite upset last night when…

This bill adds no new costs or no new bureaucracy. It is supported by the National Governors' Association. I remind my colleagues on the other side, there are 31 Republican Governors. It is supported by the U.S. Catholic Conference, the…

This amendment gives States the option of providing noncash assistance to children once their adult parents have reached the 5-year limit. It does not affect the ban on cash assistance after 5 years. It would allow States to use their…

So, Mr. President, I think this amendment moves us closer to compromise. I urge the adoption of my amendment. As I said earlier, this is one that ought to be accepted. The distinguished former Governor of New Hampshire, on the floor of the…

We are starting something new, and it is down a path that we are not sure how it will turn out. I think that is the Senator's point. The States will be doing this and not the Federal Government, as such, because in this legislation we…

Is it not true that this President has issued 67 waivers to 40 States, more than any President has issued?

Did the Republican welfare bill that was passed last year, the one that was proposed last year, have in it the same thing that the Senator from Louisiana is trying to propose now? In this bill have you restricted it more than the previous…

It is medical savings accounts that the Senate turned down, and the conferees are all for MSA's. Therefore, we will get something that the Senate turned down, and that is the basic objection.

If I may, I remember that incident very clearly and as the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee will remember, in the endgame of that Commission's work, the Secretary did finally appoint a member with National Guard expertise but…

The Senate from Missouri and I want the Secretary of Defense be aware of the National Guard Caucus' grave concerns and urge you to ensure that this independent review team be truly balanced.

On the Worldwide Web the Senator is talking about, that you got 1,300 responses, and so forth, did they respond to your explanation of Pennsylvania Avenue or were they responding to the Secret Service's explanation of closing it?

So, Mr. President it has been the response of what you put on the web not what the Secret Service put on the web and therefore is a political grandstand.

As the Senator from Georgia noted, all three amendments are similar. The Senator from Oklahoma says the Danforth and Nunn amendments are 'exactly the same thing.' Yet last year he voted against the Johnston amendment, which also dealt with…

I have since had time to review the Record, and found that both resolutions inserted into the Record by the Senator from Oklahoma were incorrect. In other words, neither of the resolutions which he put into the Record were actually voted…

Knowing the Senator from Wyoming, he will not have to take his money with him. He can write a check where he is going. I am very concerned that we talk about IOU's and they are really the bills. We talk about raiding and, no, we are not…