Bob Kerrey

If that is the case, if it does not restrict the next President, it does not restrict this President. He could also do it. I have had a briefing on the review that was done in 1997, prior to the Helsinki meeting between President Clinton…

Let's say Governor Bush is elected and he comes into office and says I have Brent Scowcroft, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and Colin Powell. They have done a review from November to January and they have made a recommendation to go to…

in 1998, the Congress, for the first time in the history of strategic nuclear weapons policy, imposed upon a President a limitation on what that President could do in terms of reducing nuclear weapons. It imposed a floor at the START I…

it is somewhat difficult to get back to the somewhat arcane subject of how many nuclear weapons are needed after listening to the recitation of the Senator from Alaska of a short, very moving statement that in many ways gets to the heart…

I rise in support of this crop insurance conference report. As my colleagues from the Agriculture Committee are well aware, this legislation has been a work in progress for a good long time. The final package we reached with the House and…

I thank the group of people who organized the Million Mom March on Mother's Day. Three-quarters of a million people coming to Washington, DC, is rather impressive. I suspect even opponents of what they are trying to do are impressed with…

In today's information age, the threat of electronic attack is more likely than a nuclear attack. Words such as 'cyber-terrorism' and 'hackers' have crept into everyday talk, no longer confined to the world of computer nerds and geeks…

I am joined by my esteemed colleagues Senator McCain and Senator Moynihan in introducing the Social Security Protection, Preservation, and Reform Commission Act of 1990. I am honored to join these two distinguished colleagues in an effort…

On April 25, 2000 the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Carhart v. Stenberg case. As a lifelong Nebraskan, I have received several requests to take a prominent public position with regard to this case, including a…

Supporters of this amendment are winning converts. Each election cycle seems to bring them closer to the 67 votes they need to send this 17-word amendment to the States for their ratification. And 49 legislatures have already indicated…

I rise today to honor Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, a man who has dedicated his life to cleansing sickness from the lives of countless people. When my grandchildren study the events that shaped the development of the twentieth century, the…

I thank Chairman Lugar. He has done great work in allowing the process to come forward and allowing suggestions on how to improve crop insurance and make it more responsible. There has been some abuse of the program. Senator Roberts talked…

last week, in the middle of a 10-day trip to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel, I read a story in the International Herald Tribune about a discovery made by a joint Chinese- United States paleontology team in China. The team found…

my amendment is merely a conforming amendment. If you support the underlying amendment, which changes Social Security from a retirement program to a program that simply has a test of age as opposed to a status of work, I urge colleagues to…

Two percentage points, that is correct. Not 2 percent of the 12.4; but 2 percentage points overall, from 12.4 to 10.4 percent. Under current law, a substantial increase in the publicly-held debt will occur. In addition, there is a problem…

I support the elimination of the earnings test from 65 to 69, and believe the amendment I have offered would be a positive conforming change that will make it clear, regarding Social Security at age 65, there is no longer a requirement to…

I intend to vote for this piece of legislation. I think it is good and needed legislation. But I don't think anybody should be deluded as to why we are taking it up. I remember the Boskin Commission. A number of years ago there was a…

My amendment is essentially a conforming amendment. It is an amendment that conforms a change we are about to make with the change in the language relating to earnings that occur between age 65 and 69. Senator Moynihan and I have a…

the question of how to write Federal laws and consider treaties that enable our armed forces and diplomats to protect and defend the people of the United States is both important and difficult for Members of Congress to answer. To write…

a few weeks ago, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger joined what has become a chorus of distinguished citizens and representatives who are suggesting the decision to deploy the national missile defense system be postponed until after…

I am persuaded this law needs to be changed for the good of the Republic, for the good of democracy.

I think it is very important to hang on to the bill the Senator from Wisconsin and the Senator from Arizona have put before us on campaign finance reform.

The big thing I see in the system right now is we have a very high barrier to public service.

I heard an exchange earlier between the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Oklahoma who talked about raiding the Social Security trust fund. We have not been raiding the Social Security trust fund for the last 16 years. What we…

I support the legislation offered earlier by the Senator from South Dakota, the Medicare Beneficiary Access to Care Act of 1999. I supported strongly the balanced budget amendment of 1997, the deficit reduction acts of 1993 and 1990, and…