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I am here today to join the Senator from Georgia in letting the American people know what a costly and dangerous paragraph the President of this country has proposed on behalf of the labor unions, its bosses. What I am referring to is the…
as a cosponsor of S. 522, The Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act, I urge my colleagues to support this important measure to stop IRS employees from electronically browsing through taxpayer files. Mr. President, today is not a day when most…
I take the floor today to discuss an issue that is serious and becoming more serious every year, and that is the pitiful state of our legal system. It is becoming harder and harder and harder to convict anybody of anything. You can catch…
I rise today to vote ``no'' on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In so voting, I take no position on the personal qualifications of Mr. Garland to be a Federal appeals…
I oppose this measure because I believe that the American people are taxed too much. Why is it that general revenues, collected through income taxes, are not enough to cover such basic government services as safe skies. Further, even if we…
the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security is going to present its recommendations to the President today, and I commend the commission for its work and support most of its recommendations. Aviation safety should be a…
I want to thank Senator Ford for introducing legislation regarding the regulation of tobacco. With respect to this very controversial issue, let us set one thing straight--no one supports teen smoking. We need to do more to discourage…
I am absolutely convinced of the merits of S. 1955, and I am committed to moving ahead with the idea of establishing a formal entity at NIH to coordinate the current research effort and give greater priority within the overall NIH budget…
I rise today to speak about HUD's attempts over the past few years to regulate property insurance under the Fair Housing Act. Let me state for the record that I am committed to strict enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and its…
I rise to speak on what I consider a travesty that I believe to be imminent. Mr. President, yesterday a number of newspapers reported that President Clinton refused to rule out a pardon for his Whitewater business partners James and Susan…
a week ago today, hurricane Fran devastated my home State of North Carolina. Last Thursday, after the last Senate vote, I drove down to North Carolina and was there for the storm. I have viewed first hand much of the damage to my State…
I will be happy to assist the Senator from Alaska in any way I can regarding the possible misapplication of Clean Air Act requirements. The citizens of Alaska should not be forced to accede to a regulatory scheme which imposes significant…
If I might interject, the fact that EPA has found several studies that indicate a correlation between loading of particulates in the air and premature mortality is important. This suggested link to human health problems needs to be…
If the chairman would yield, I would ask whether any of the money in the fiscal year 1997 funding for particulate research will go to implementing an ambient air quality and emissions monitoring program, and will EPA be placing the…
as you know, the Southern Oxidants Study has brought together 35 industrial and government organizations and 20 universities in 21 States to study a critical economic, environmental, and health issue--the formation of ground level ozone…
In 1961, Congress amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide a narrow overtime exemption for commissioned employees in retail and service establishments. Under section 207(i) of the FLSA, outside commissioned sales employees are…
Yesterday, when the Senate passed welfare legislation we took an important first step toward reforming our failed welfare system. Similarly, the health care reform bill before us today takes another important first step toward addressing…
I said many times, and many times over, that in this welfare debate we have not addressed the root cause of welfare, and that is illegitimacy. The root cause of welfare dependency is illegitimacy. Until we address that, we will not have…
if ever we have had a commonsense solution to a complex problem come through the Senate, it is S. 1936. It is a sensible way to deal with the high-level radioactive waste that has been accumulating in 110 commercial nuclear units…
many people in this Chamber believe that all the foreign aid that we send to other countries is included in this one spending bill. But this is not the case. I have discovered that domestic agencies are also in the foreign aid business…
current law requires the Secretary of State to publish an annual report that tells the Congress how often foreign countries voted with the United States at the Union Nations. Unfortunately, this report leaves out a key statistic, and that…
this amendment's purpose is to send a simple, clear message, which is that the taxpayers' money should not be spent to increase the number of people on welfare. Six years ago, Congress instructed the Social Security Administration to…
in 1994, when President Clinton sent his first welfare reform bill to Congress, he said that preventing teenage pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births was a critical part of welfare reform. I hope we all could agree with the President on that…
this amendment states that if that parent is currently receiving welfare benefits and has been for the last 3 years, then the minor may not receive cash benefits. If the parent is currently receiving welfare, and the minor child is herself…
No, the amendment would not prohibit that. I would be willing to amend it so we could do that. That is certainly within the realm of what we could do. But door-to-door solicitation, big ads in the newspaper, come-and-get-it type ads, that…
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