Bob Kerrey

the issue of Social Security has been given a new bit of attention this week. Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana announced their intent to introduce legislation that effectively takes the…

Are you basically saying you want to move to table my amendment and then walk out? Is that it? You will leave and we will say we are in morning business; is that the offer?

copper is a substance that at certain levels will cause gastrointestinal problems. That is the issue here. Unlike lead, it is a different sort of public health problem. Again, it is an essential element. Understand, that the estimated…

I have 70 communities in Nebraska that are facing substantial costs. There is no argument against this, other than that EPA opposes it. I don't hear any scientific argument against it or any public health argument against it. Earlier…

I would accept report language that would say the State of Nebraska would be allowed to make a public health investment in those communities where there is in excess of 1.3 milligrams that first minute. I would allow Nebraska to be…

I appreciate what will happen tomorrow is, there will be 2 minutes equally divided and Senator Chafee and Senator Baucus will come down here and they will say, ``We don't necessarily disagree with you but we have a letter from the EPA and…

I would be prepared to withdraw this amendment and to work with the Senator from Missouri and the Senator from Maryland as well as the Senator from Rhode Island and the Senator from Montana, the ranking members of the Environment and…

I am perfectly willing to make an effort to accommodate. Unfortunately, I am in a situation where I don't feel like I am going to get much accommodation from the Senators in communities that are going to spend millions of dollars to invest…

I would agree to in some sort of consent agreement. I don't want to surrender the floor and then end up with my amendment tabled with no capacity to appeal for some sort of flexibility in law or report language that would enable me to…

Well, my hope is that by listening to these wonderful arguments, there is going to be persuasion. You are saying that you want to move to table my amendment and leave and go into morning business, and then I will have 2 minutes tomorrow to…

while it is true that the packers and many of the processing industry do not like the idea of having to disclose prices and bidding, you would be hard-pressed to find a single rancher or cattle feeder in the United States of America who…

that letter comes on behalf of people who are in the packing industry. I just tell colleagues that if you have ranchers or feed lot operators in your State, they support the change. There is a division in this particular association that…

I appreciate his early support, not just of this piece of legislation, but his early support for changing laws giving taxpayers more rights when dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. This is just a continuation of Taxpayer Bill of…

Mr. President, I believe this piece of legislation goes to the heart of our capacity to maintain government of, by and for the people. Our republican form of government is at risk if people feel they are not getting a fair shake with this…

I will connect what I say here about this piece of legislation with Father's Day. I had the occasion, during our last recess, to take my 23-year-old son and my 21-year-old daughter to Omaha Beach. I was in the audience on the 6th of June…

I stand today to join Chairman Shelby in presenting the nomination of Ms. Joan Dempsey to be Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management. The President has chosen well. In my view, there is no one in the country more…

there are an awful lot of us who are now, as we head through the deliberation of this bill and the various amendments being offered--and, to be clear, I voted, on the budget resolution, in favor of the amendment being offered now by the…

Personally, I think it would be a waste of money to direct the CIA to read the New York Times and report to us what is contained in there relevant to any part of the world, let alone in India.

If we head in the direction of finding a scapegoat here what we will miss is an opportunity to debate what our policy ought to be toward the largest democracy on Earth. In addition to the other things that the Senator said about India…

I just wanted, in addition to making the point that the distinguished Senator has been very critical of the CIA--and I think he is quite right in this particular instance to say though we may need some questions answered, the biggest…

Today, it is estimated that taxpayers spend about--somewhere, actually, between $70 billion and $100 billion to comply with the Tax Code, $70 to $100 billion a year to comply with the Tax Code. The IRS budget is about $7 billion, so we…

I do believe in this kind of oversight where we ask four key people, three of whom are new creations under this law, to come and tell the oversight committee how well this new law is doing and if there is any additional changes in the law…

There is a tremendous problem with this Y2K issue, and that is going to be felt by taxpayers who are not going to get returns. They are not going to get refunds and not going to be able to deal with the IRS because the computers are not…

briefly, we are doing something that is unprecedented. The distinguished Senator from Alabama says that the Office of Government Ethics is unprecedented. It is the only venture that is unprecedented; never in the history of Government have…

the National Restructuring Commission included this provision in our bill. It is in the House bill, or at least provisions in it that dictate that an employee who does a number of things would be automatically terminated. What the Senator…