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I do have concerns that this bill will raise the cost of health insurance for citizens of my state, particularly for individual health care insurance policies. Additionally, I am skeptical that we can reform health care and lower costs in…
The competitive availability of navigation devices provision, section 304, instructs the FCC to consult with appropriate voluntary industry standards setting organizations for the purpose of promulgating a regulation. Given that the FCC is…
Do you also agree that the intent of this provision is that the use of rate regulated services to subsidize equipment might unfairly penalize the general rate-payer?
on the night of January 9, while this city was buried under a record snowfall, President Clinton vetoed the welfare reform conference report by this Congress, thereby blocking real welfare reform. Recent news accounts suggest that an…
Today Senator Helms and I will introduce legislation that will authorize the Congress to present a gold medal to Ruth and Billy Graham in honor of their contributions to mankind. The striking of the medal will have no cost to the taxpayer…
The teenager in those circumstances could receive a voucher or federally funded inkind aid, but she could not get a Federal welfare check in the mail. I want to stress that this does not prevent teenage mothers from living at home or from…
We are now debating a provision of the Dole bill that addresses illegitimacy but is not at all directive or proscriptive. The provision which the amendment by Senator Jeffords seeks to strike is a simple provision that rewards a State for…
my pending amendment modifies a provision in the Dole bill which allows Federal funds to be used for cash aid to unmarried teenage mothers. The sole purpose of this amendment is designed to disrupt the pattern of out-of-wedlock…
on March 23, I introduced S. 603--a bill to nullify Executive Order 12954 which prohibits Federal contracts with any company that hires permanent replacements for striking workers. This is the companion bill to H.R. 1176 introduced by…
This bill cuts $13 billion from the Federal budget. That is roughly 1 percent. If we cannot muster the fortitude to take 1 percent out of the budget here and now, what does it say for future deficits?
What it amounts to is not only have we failed to pass the balanced budget amendment, we are here in deep debate over whether we can take 1 percent out of it. We saw, by failure to pass the balanced budget amendment, very clearly that the…
I rise in support of the Kassebaum striker replacement amendment. I strongly support the amendment offered by the distinguished Senator from Kansas. The Executive order is one more example of the President's bypassing the legislative…
I first want to comment on the amendment of the Senator from Minnesota. It seems to be an amendment with the primary purpose of stopping cutting and spending in this country. The balanced budget amendment and the unfunded mandates are…
the Clinton administration is currently embroiled in a scandal, a scandal that is causing enormous turmoil and problems. Washington today is divided between two opposing groups. One is made up of those who expect Congress to do its job and…
I have spent the last 46 years in the private sector. I have met a payroll every Friday for every week of those years and with a little luck will meet one this Friday. It is unfortunate for the American people that there are not more…
the private sector and the free market are the only factors that can determine what is a proper wage. Governments around the world have discovered the futility and waste associated with manipulating wages and markets. It simply has never…
as a life-long farmer and landowner I want to bring to the Senate's attention a letter recently written to Representative Norman Mineta by a number of groups interested in preserving the right to private ownership of land. Mr. President…
one of our colleagues in the Senate received a great and deserved honor this week, an honor I am certain is more special to him than the warehouse of plaques he had been given, or even the hundreds of letters of support he will receive…
I have spent 45 years of my life in the private sector, meeting a payroll every Friday as a businessman and farmer. I have watched the Congress, each time it came into session and adjourned, make it more difficult for me and every other…
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