Bob Kerrey

Expressed another way, $23 billion could fund nearly all of the Highway Trust Fund--$25.2 billion in 2002--or all of NIH-- $14.294 billion in 2002--and all of EPA--$7.398 billion in 2002. Mr. President, if we are making a mistake, we ought…

I do want to go back to 1993, as many of my colleagues have done, and discuss the Deficit-Reduction Act of 1993. Since I only have 10 minutes, I will not go into detail about the one that happened in 1990 under President Bush's watch. Both…

this amendment addresses the need to keep the budget in balance over the long haul. The budget resolution we are considering today will bring us into balance by 2002. I support that budget resolution, that budget effort. But after that…

along with my colleague, my good friend, Senator Chuck Hagel from my home State of Nebraska, we are offering the Vietnam Veterans Memorial resolution to remember this memorial, but also to remind Americans that the possibility for healing…

for most Americans a buck doesn't go very far. A dollar will not buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, it will not buy a comic book at the 7-11, it will not buy a package of batteries at the True Value store, or even a gallon of gas at the…

I rise today in support of striking condition 33 from the resolution of ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Condition 33 would bar the United States from ratifying the convention until the President can certify with high…

I do not intend to support this constitutional amendment. During previous debates on this issue, I have said that I believe that an amendment dictating a balanced budget does not belong in our Constitution but that the path to balance…

I am very concerned that in Nebraska and its neighboring States, section 8 projects for the elderly will be disadvantaged under the language in the conference report, unless a special effort is made to preserve them. Fair market rents in…

this year's bill once again attempts to help the intelligence community make the transition to a post-cold-war world where the looming military threat of the Soviet Union has been replaced by a more subtle--but increasingly serious--array…

I urge Senators who would like to get out of here tomorrow to get to the floor and offer their amendments. There are no more than seven or eight amendments on either side. We have worked this down to a relatively small amount, and now all…

my view is that this is a reasonable amendment. I understand there is no budget cost.

Apparently there is some Republican on this side of the aisle that has a problem. We are talking about the Rohypnol amendment?

I echo what the majority leader said. There are many evenings where we arrive here at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and then we start to do the sorts of things that we could have done at 5 o'clock in the evening. We know what needs to be…

So that the public can put this into perspective, there are 1.971 million Federal employees. Right now, there is an allowance for 3,400. I think we are at 2,800 now. This would take us down to 2,300. My concern with the Senator's amendment…

The one statement that the Senator from Wisconsin made that causes me to have some concern is the statement that I believe the Volcker Commission said that political appointees actually make it more difficult for the President to carry out…

I have the amendment now in front of me. I did not earlier. The $9.7 million comes from the delay required by the act in implementing field restructuring of the Internal Revenue Service. We have not passed that delay yet. That delay was…

as I understand it, half the funding would come from savings that would occur only if the reorganization proposed by the IRS would not occur, but the reorganization is supported by Treasury. The IRS actually has objected to the…

I have cosponsored and voted for this amendment in the past, but the fact this is a tax issue put on an appropriation bill has caused me some concern. The Senator from Alabama, the chairman, is quite right. In this instance, as a…

first of all, all Members have made up their minds on this issue. So it is not a question of trying to persuade anybody one way or the other. It is trying to say to the American people, those of us who intend to vote for allowing Federal…

One particular transaction that was under examination was shipping all the income to the Dutch Antilles so they would not have to pay any capital gains tax. When the CEO of the company, the owner of the company, was asked the question…

I hope that Members actually will vote to waive in this case. We are trying to move in the direction of managed care, particularly those of us who are trying to work both sides of the aisle and get some agreement on providing incentives in…

It is far better for us to give the consumer more information than they need, far better for us to make certain that the consumer, the patient, is well-informed of what the choices are, as opposed to on the basis of being concerned they…

the chairman is quite right. Last year, during the conference deliberations--we had seen, throughout the last couple of years, a considerable accumulation of reports, specifically, the General Accounting Office evaluation of tax system…

the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] is proposed and sold as a simple measure, limited in scope, and based on common sense. It is none of these things. DOMA certainly cannot be called a simple measure when it proposes to have the Federal…

it seems to me, for Members who are trying to decide on this piece of legislation, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, there are really three questions that need to be asked and answered. The first is: Should the Federal Government…