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I was going to wrap this up by saying the District of Columbia has problems with their budget, and what has been the proposed solution? Give them tax relief. I think the whole country has a serious problem, taxpayers have a problem, just…
I find it a little ironic, but perhaps not surprising, that efforts to get a couple of resolutions on the floor to approve or have the Senate go on record that the American taxpayer, the American family, the American working people need…
there are 365 days in each calendar year, but I can think of no other date that the American people await with such universal dread as April 15, tax day. However, there is one other date working Americans should look upon with equal…
On March 20, my dear friend and former colleague, Senator Dave Durenberger, lost his father, George Durenberger, at the age of 90. But, because the Senate was just beginning its recess at that time, I did not have the opportunity to pay…
1 week from today, we will mark the anniversary of two infamous, manmade disasters. One may slip by unnoticed. I am certain the other will not. The first disaster we will commemorate next Tuesday is the 85th anniversary of the sinking of…
in November 1994, the American voters sent a clear message to Washington that resulted in a watershed election and the first Republican Congress in 40 years. That message was to enact a taxpayers' agenda of balancing the budget, limiting…
Despite this widespread, bipartisan support for our efforts to resolve the storage problem, the White House, under the dictates of Vice President Al Gore, still has not offered an alternative to either our bipartisan legislation, which…
After this exchange of letters, I still felt troubled by Mr. Pena's inability to provide specific answers about how he and the Clinton-Gore administration intend to resolve our Nation's nuclear waste storage problem. Because I have not…
I am also pleased to be here this morning and to join with my colleagues in introducing the Medicare Payment Equity Act, as the Senator from Wyoming has just outlined. The passage of this legislation, I believe, is critical in righting the…
I rise today and I want to pay tribute to the University of Minnesota basketball team, who last night clinched their first Big Ten title in 15 years. As you know, the Golden Gophers defeated the Michigan Wolverines 55 to 54, in a…
in short, a Federal judge cannot even find the merit behind the compact. But, despite earlier misgivings, the Department seems resigned to embarking on what appears to be the herculean task of making some sense out of the compact in order…
I want to talk a little bit this morning about the balanced budget amendment and really how important it is to our children, our grandchildren, and really to the future of this country. As a nation, we find ourselves at a very critical…
Mr. President, it was 2 years ago I rose as a freshman Member of this body to express my strong support for a constitutional amendment to balance the Federal budget. "There is no question that Congress must pass a balanced budget amendment…
I introduce legislation aimed at improving government as we know it. The Department of Energy Abolishment Act of 1997 comes after nearly two decades of debate. The basic question has always remained the same: Why should we expend taxpayer…
The Emergency Medical Services Efficiency Act is not the answer to all of the problems. But it is the first step in addressing the concerns of a very important segment of both our health care and transportation systems. This bill is a…
I rise to discuss some of the concerns I have about the Maritime Security Act, H.R. 1350, pending before the Senate today. On March 6, 1996, I joined several of my colleagues in a letter to Commerce Committee Chairman Pressler requesting…
when 2,000 American job providers came to Washington last June to attend what was called the Third White House Conference on Small Business, they brought with them hundreds of ideas on how to make Government more responsive--to the…
my freshman colleagues and I have come to the floor this morning to share our thoughts about the future. It is a vision for tomorrow not bound in political partisanship, because ours is not a Republican agenda, but an American agenda: A…
America's working families, as we have been talking about, face greater hardships now than at any time in the last decade and the impact of the Clinton Presidency is being felt on all fronts: the economy is flat, taxes are on the rise…
Very much so. It is kind of a catch-22. Every time the city says they need more programs to encourage people to stay, they have to somehow have the revenues, so they raise taxes. And every time they raise taxes, they have an…
I am very concerned about regulations that were just issued by the IRS in May regarding the section 936 possession tax credit. These new regulations cast aside regulatory rules upon which companies have relied for many years permitting…
I want to follow up on what the Senator from Louisiana was saying. Just last week, the courts reaffirmed what the Congress and also the Nation's taxpayers have known since 1982 when this contract, this agreement was worked out, and that…
anyone who has followed this contentious debate will agree achieving this legislative solution has been a very difficult process, but it is a process that we cannot afford to wait until after the next election to resolve. The Department of…
we have heard a lot of talk from Washington recently about the hardships that are facing working Americans. Tax rates are up, job opportunities are down, interest rates are rising while paychecks are shrinking and take-home pay is not…
No, Mr. President, it is not. The only response that the Park Service is taking is something they believe is their grandstand, and that is to say, what kind of park do you want? They are not opening their web page. They are not opening…
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