It is Thursday night, and we have no idea how many amendments are left. I am curious what the strategy is. The chairman would probably have a better idea than I would. He has been here a long, long time. But it seems to me this is pretty…

I do not want to necessarily speak on this amendment, although I must say the amendment is starting to get closer to the target we are at least talking about the bill. We laid this bill down on Monday. As I recall, I was in the chair when…

I wanted to take the floor briefly to say a few words in opposition to the Simpson substitute and a few kind words about S. 4, that we have had on the floor, now, for some long while. It was not too many days ago that we all watched the…

I support this legislation precisely because I believe it does represent some kind of industrial policy. Is it massive new Government intervention in picking winners and losers? No, nothing of the kind. It does not even resemble that. But…

I rise today to support S. 4, the National Competitiveness Act. This important legislation is an essential element of the Clinton administration's agenda to make American business more competitive and to reinvigorate our Nation's…

I do not know all the facts about Whitewater, but I know many of the facts about Presidential ambition. We are told that Whitewater is a massive scandal of some sort. There is no alleged criminal impropriety by the President in Whitewater…

Finally, I say, finally we have a President who is willing to exhibit a bit of leadership in international trade. We have had, year after year after year, trade actions by Japan and others that are fundamentally unfair to American…

I have listened somewhat this morning, as I have been in meetings, and as I had an ear tuned to the television set, it occurred to me we are doing the least productive thing we could possibly be doing here this morning in the Senate, and…

I have been very reluctant to change the Constitution in any way. Every time somebody says, ``Let's have a constitutional amendment,'' we have a lot of folks who say, ``Sign me up. Where is the wagon? I'll jump on.'' It does not matter…

There is one timeless truth that existed in this Chamber before this debate started and will exist after it is over. That timeless truth is you cannot forever spend money you do not have. You cannot forever spend resources that honestly…

I appreciate the comment. This proposal is not new. The States have it in their constitutions. Presumably, if there will be a real mess as a result of this proposal, the State courts will have already demonstrated that kind of a mess. But…

I was thinking about the stories I read about the difficulty of moving a wagon train across the West. They usually came through North Dakota. The difficulty with moving wagon trains was that a wagon train could only move under any…