The Public Record
That is correct. The authorization for 1995 is $1.370 million and in 1996, it is $1.478 billion; the grand total being $2.8 billion. It is the contention of this Senator that that reflects a ballooning of the cost of these programs, and…
We have been asleep at the switch. This is nothing new; just a continuation of past programs; the same old thing. I would respectfully call the attention of the Senate to the fact that it is not the same old thing; that this is a new…
If we are going to do that, then I would say, Madam President, we do not have any option. Then the Senator from South Carolina is absolutely correct. If the trade laws are not going to amount to anything, if they are not going to be…
Well, today at our hearing, we had as a witness, a vice president from Boeing. And because this statement has been made so frequently about how the aerospace industry has been subsidized, I put the question to the vice president from…
I want to get back to what I consider to be the main issue raised by S. 4, which is the question of the relationship between the Federal Government and the private sector on matters of research and development spending. I want to call the…
I do not agree with S. 4 because I think that it is industrial policy. I believe that industrial policy is an issue which should be debated before our country, as well as before the Senate. I do not believe that the Department of Commerce…
I ask the Senator to respond to a point that was made just before the break for lunch with respect to the effect that this amendment might have on safety in manufacturing general aviation aircraft. The point that was made by opponents was…
I know I am repeating myself because just a little while ago in debating, I stated that one of the things we could do in order to help American business in research is to make permanent the R&D tax credit. The R&D tax credit--which could…
I take the opposite view. The fact is that we have not done a good job of balancing the budget. We never do it. It used to be thought that countercyclical spending was the way to operate an economy--that at the down times in the economy…
I rise in strong support of the Hatfield amendment. In the aftermath of the great midwestern flood, communities across Missouri are looking to a permanent solution to the repeated experience of devastating flood damage. They are seeking to…
I rise in strong support of the Hatfield amendment. In the aftermath of the great midwestern flood, communities across Missouri are looking to a permanent solution to the repeated experience of devastating flood damage. They are seeking to…
as an original cosponsor of the Parents as Teachers Act, I rise to offer my support for Senator Bond's amendment to include the Parents as Teachers Program as part of Goals 2000. As Governor of Missouri, my colleague developed this fine…
But if the Senator will yield, a prayer that is out loud is not constitutionally prohibited. A prayer that is out loud is clearly permitted under the Constitution, but that does not mean that any schoolchild at any time of day during the…
The school district clearly can put limits on unconstitutional prayer, but prayer is not unconstitutional. There is no such thing as an unconstitutional prayer, that I know. The question is, are there reasonable limits to prayer that could…
A school can certainly say we are not going to have prayer in classrooms during school right now, as of now, until we pass this.
It is unconstitutional to require somebody to say a prayer. But anybody who wants to utter a prayer has a constitutional right to utter that prayer. I am not talking about officially mandated prayer. Nobody is discussing that.
You would then be solving a big problem at the end of this amendment. That is clear. You would still have the primary problem with the amendment; namely, this is the problem of Uncle Sam, we in the Senate, making a decision relating to the…
Why not leave it to the school districts to make the decision without us making the decision? On something that is this latent with community values, on something that is this volatile, on something that is this community-sensitive, why…
Well, the Senator is correct in the fact that there are some people who are really enthusiastic about we in Washington having just wonderful wisdom to tell people what to do. The idea that the power of the purse can be used by Washington…
first let me say that a lawyer, particularly a constitutional lawyer, would say that Senator Packwood has made a real contribution and that the Helms amendment, as modified, is not as pernicious as its original form because of the adding…
As I understand it, I do not believe that the Supreme Court has ruled out the possibility of silent prayer. This is not limited to silent prayer.
However, that is not the only problem with this legislation. The problem with this legislation is that it says to the school district, you can no longer be neutral. It says to the school district that you can no longer have a situation in…
This says that the school district cannot put those limitations on, and if it tries to, it will lose its money.
What this does is to say that, henceforth, the school district's receipt of Federal funds will be determined by whether or not the school district will adopt a policy of allowing voluntary prayer?
But there is no constitutional right, as I understand it right now, in schools, that a period of prayer be set aside, or that prayer be allowed even if it is voluntary prayer. Certain types of voluntary prayer are not permitted under the…
Politicians like John Danforth
