Cat Island is the last remaining private island that lies outside the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Located so close to the mainland, Cat Island has many natural and recreational resources that make it an attractive target for…

I am very pleased to present for the Senate's consideration the fiscal year 2001 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies appropriations bill. This bill provides fiscal year 2001 funding for the…

I believe the proposed amendment on testing of our National Missile defense system is overly broad, unnecessary, and counterproductive. The amendment asks that we direct the Defense Department to conduct testing of our National Missile…

I offer this amendment to H.R. 4577, the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill to implement pilot programs for antimicrobial resistance monitoring and prevention. Antimicrobial resistance has become a…

recently, the National Reading Panel submitted its report to Congress. That report shows the best current research on how children learn to read. One of the significant studies included in the research is the product of the National…

I believe that these funds would be better utilized by the Midshipmen Welfare Fund that supports extra-curricular activities not covered by appropriated funds. Knowing of the strong leadership of the chairman and the Senator from Hawaii…

I am rising today almost as a preemptive debate against these criticisms which I expect will be made by some Senators. They will use Mr. Ted Postol from MIT as the authority for their arguments. So I wish to give the Senate some…

just a few days ago, the Congressional Budget Office released a paper entitled ``Budgetary and Technical Implications of the Administration's Plan for National Missile Defense.'' I bring this paper to the Senate's attention because I…

on April 13, 2000, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education received the report of the National Reading Panel. The subcommittee also heard testimony from Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the…

on several occasions I have discussed missile defense programs and the importance of moving as quickly as possible to develop and deploy missile defense systems--both theater and national--to protect forces that are deployed around the…

Last week the Department of Defense conducted its most recent flight test of our National Missile Defense system. A great deal has been said and written about this test in the last few days--much of it erroneous--and I think it is…

I support the energy efficiency amendment contained in the package of amendments managed by the chairman of the subcommittee. This amendment, which I have sponsored along with Senators Murkowski and Bingaman, clarifies, with respect to the…

I don't know of any Senators on this side of the aisle who desire to debate this issue any further. We have had a full debate of all of the issues surrounding this amendment--the issues of disaster and income assistance. I observe that the…

Nothing really has been changed except the vehicle for delivery of assistance--that has been changed--and a reduction in total cost. We still observe this is not a CBO estimate of the cost. The earliest cost of the Harkin amendment was…

This is an amendment relating to economic and disaster assistance. To refresh the memory of Senators, this is an amendment that seeks to give the Secretary of Agriculture authority and funds with which to deal with the economic crisis that…

We have undertaken in good faith to try to arrive at a package of assistance that will address the needs, as we understand them, in agriculture. If the Senator has listened to the debate, as I am sure he has, there have been some Senators…

I appreciate very much also his efforts to try to identify the ways we can develop a comprehensive response to the disaster situation and the economic crisis that exists in agriculture today. ... Some farmers are having a good year but…

My colleague asked me whether the Congressional Budget Office had scored the amendment that I offered. I ask my colleague the same question: What does the Congressional Budget Office say the amendment that the Democratic leader has offered…

Does that mean that the exact dollar amount set aside for each of the programs such as the Wetlands Restoration Program, the EQIP program--which is an emergency conservation program--emergency watershed program, all total $212 million in…

I am submitting today a resolution which commends General Wesley K. Clark for his outstanding service to the United States. I was sorry to learn from the Wednesday morning's newspapers that General Clark would be leaving his current post…

on July 1, my friend, Donald Meiners, will retire from Entergy-Mississippi after 39 years of service. Mr. Meiners began his career in 1960 as a residential salesman in Jackson for what was then Mississippi Power & Light Company. He was…

let me congratulate my friend, the distinguished Senator from Georgia, for organizing this special order and allowing this opportunity to speak on the subject of Teacher Appreciation Week. Tribute to Tina Scholtes, Mississippi's Teacher of…

I am proud to cosponsor the Senate Resolution proclaiming this week Teacher Appreciation Week. This week, in every state, students and parents are taking time to thank the school teachers, and we should too. They are the true heroes in our…

before the Senate adjourned for the Easter recess, my State of Mississippi suffered the loss of one of its finest citizens, Richard Baxter Wilson, who died on Monday, March 15. He was a national leader in the electric power industry. He…

Today one of my State's most famous citizens of all time celebrates her 90th birthday. Eudora Welty is known around the world as a writer of enormous talent and accomplishment. She has lived for most of her life in Jackson, MS, and she…