Bob Kerrey

I am concerned that the Lincoln team has been underfunded. At the same time, this bill calls for five new teams. Is it the Senator's intention to start five new teams prior to adequately funding existing teams?

I wanted to bring to the chairman's attention a fine urban search and rescue team in Lincoln, NE. It was the first team to be recognized by FEMA and has been ongoing since 1991.

I strongly support, along with the Conferees, three important components of pre-harvest and post-harvest food safety research proposed by the Agricultural Research Service. The Conferees made the right decision to fund research of…

I strongly support Senate passage of H.R. 3103, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. I am proud to have been an original cosponsor of its predecessor, S. 1028, the Kennedy-Kassebaum proposal that was originally…

let me first pay my compliments to Senator Chafee, Senator Baucus, Senator Kempthorne, and Senator Reid. This is a very difficult piece of legislation. If you had asked me a week ago if I thought we would be able to get to conference and…

I come to the floor intending to vote against this bill and would like to explain why. I think this piece of legislation in the context of our budget and the context of our economy will not make things better. Those who believe this new…

this third amendment is one of those sort of good Government amendments. I have spoken with the authorizing committee about this. They raise some concerns that I will attempt to address in a moment. This gives the U.S. Department of…

I do not know if I will take 10 minutes or not, but it was called to my attention this morning when I got back in town that there was an opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post yesterday, Sunday, written by Mr. Henry Aaron, a…

this amendment establishes a separate appropriation for salaries and expenses for the Risk Management Agency inside the Farm Service Agency's account. I wish the administration of the Department of Agriculture had sent up a separation. I…

I end with 30 seconds, by merely saying the personal investment plan, as described by Senator Simpson and myself, is not privatization. It is fully funded. And it is, it seems to me, called for in a program which has not been changed…

will the Senator from Alaska help me understand a part of the bill. Within the Formerly Used Defense Site Program you have added $25,000,000 for PCB and asbestos removal. We have a situation out at the University of Nebraska where the…

I rise to comment on a disturbing trend I see arising in the aftermath of the terrorist killing of our military personnel in Saudi Arabia. I am concerned because I believe we may be developing a response that plays right into the…

I am quite convinced this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that this Congress has taken up. I am very, very grateful to the Senator from Kansas for saying, get all parties back together, Republicans and Democrats. There…

the bill the Senate is now considering, S. 1745, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997, raises many issues essential to our national security. None are more important, however, than the Intelligence Committee's…

I do not expect to persuade a majority, Mr. President. This is an amendment that will have a tremendous impact on the future budget outlays and appropriations of this Congress. As everybody that has examined the facts knows, unless we make…

I rise to the floor today to support the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge boundary revision. The proposed bill would remove about 2,470 acres of land from the refuge and transfer it to the Bureau of Reclamation. The U.S. Fish and…

I cannot say that I look forward to tapping on Senator Simpson's box in 2030. But I am enthusiastic about cosponsoring this resolution with him. One of the most difficult things to learn in life is that you are wrong. An awful lot of…

I want to compliment the work of the distinguished Senator from Alabama, Mr. Shelby, for securing the adoption of an amendment in the conference to modify the composition of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, which was…

I, like my other colleagues, want to praise both Senators Chafee and Breaux for keeping this group on task and hope that this proposal, this bipartisan proposal, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, will provide a foundation…

I rise to discuss the investigation which the Select Committee on Intelligence has undertaken at the majority leader's request regarding allegations that the administration may have secretly acquiesced in or facilitated Iranian arms…

I rise to support the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill, S. 1028. I believe it is a long-overdue change. As the Senator from Rhode Island and others have said already, it is regarded by some as very incremental. I regard it as one of those very…

first let me praise the conferees. Given the acrimony surrounding the debate, and given the lateness of the hour, it is entirely possible for conferees to look and produce nothing, or to produce a bill which the President would have had to…

I support the Hollings-Daschle technology amendment, which I am pleased to cosponsor. In particular, this amendment adds $32 million for the Telecommunications Information and Infrastructure Assistance Program [TIIAP] under the National…

I rise as a cosponsor of the Daschle- Harkin amendment. This amendment adds back $3.1 billion for vital education programs such as title I, Head Start, School-to-Work, and Education Technology. I have often said that children will do as we…

I rise today to join with Chairman Specter to introduce legislation. We are embarking on a course to change the U.S. intelligence community, and this legislation is the chart upon which we will be marking that course. Over a year ago…