Chuck Hagel

Last week, 20 of my colleagues of both parties joined me in introducing the Regulatory Openness and Fairness Act, a bill to amend the Food Quality Protection Act to ensure that the EPA used sound science in its evaluation of pesticide…

thank you. I wish to strongly endorse and support the McCain-Biden resolution. Mr. President, I'm an original cosponsor. I have listened this afternoon to my colleagues, who have all made significant contributions to this issue. There are…

I rise to add my enthusiastic support for S. 4. The most important responsibility a nation has is to its people's security, ensuring a nation's freedom. As all of us in life, nations and governments are no different. We must prioritize. We…

I also wish to commend my friend, the senior Senator from Mississippi, for reintroducing his defense initiative. Missile defense is as critical a challenge as this country faces, not just for the short term, but for the long term, and I…

I have introduced S. 246, the Private Property Fairness Act of 1999. This bill will help ensure that when the Government issues regulations for the benefit of the public as a whole, it does not saddle just a few landowners with the whole…

on September 10, 1998, in my role as Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion, I chaired the Foreign Relations Committee hearing on two important treaties that the Senate will ratify today…

the Senate is debating the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. In its current form, this bill is a careful compromise that has been months in the making. I had serious concerns about earlier versions of this legislation, but I am…

I want to very briefly reflect for a moment on the prayer just offered by the Rev. Robert Kem of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Omaha. It happens, Mr. President, that is the church where my family and I often are seen--more over the…

Foreign policy to Nebraskans and many Americans is not theory or some abstraction suspended between university classrooms, State Department corridors, or congressional hearing rooms. Foreign policy is the framework policy for America's…

I rise this afternoon to add my tribute and honor to our fallen comrades and colleagues, Officers Chestnut and Gibson, whose bodies lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda just down the hall, where Members of the House and Senate paid tribute…

It is not about mischief-making. It is not about burdening credit unions. It is about things like open, honest accounting. I just don't understand why anyone would reject or object to a clear understanding of what the commercial loan…

Mr. President, I support credit unions and the cost-efficient service they provide to their members. Our amendment, which we are offering today, is not designed to hurt credit unions. To the contrary, our amendment is designed to keep…

I rise to support Senator Lugar's amendment. I am an original cosponsor of that amendment. I am an original cosponsor of the Lugar amendment because I believe the Lugar amendment applies some common sense and some relevancy to the issue of…

I wish to first congratulate the bipartisan leadership in this body, the leadership of our two leaders, Senator Lott and Senator Daschle, for addressing this issue and addressing the more encompassing issue of sanctions in total. I want to…

I would like to report on a comment made this morning by a senior World Bank official warning of a looming global recession. He says, ``We are probably at the end of the first cycle of a crisis and we are entering into a deep recession…

Mr. President, Senator Roberts has touched upon some of the most important core issues in the debate that we have had over the last 4 weeks on the tobacco bill. I would find it interesting again to recite what has really happened in the…

I want to take this body on a quick trip to the other part of the world to talk very briefly about what is happening in Southeast Asia, Japan, China, Russia, and how it is impacting and affecting all of us in this country, how it will…

I returned Sunday night from a 9-day trip to Turkey and central Asia. I would like to share with this body and my colleagues some observations from that trip and of the last year and a half. There are dangerous and serious events and…

The Federal Government, no government, can tax or regulate young people's behavior. That is silly. That is complete folly. Come on. How many parents do we have in this body? How many people in this body have dealt with young people? I…

Mr. President, I rise this afternoon to reflect on some of the dynamics of the debate on the tobacco bill. I think it is important we as a body step back and focus on some of the various dynamics and the consequences of what we may or may…

I rise this afternoon to reflect on the business at hand today; that is, our Department of Defense authorization bill. Three hours ago, I had the privilege of joining a couple of my colleagues at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a…

the time has arrived to put some accountability and common sense into one of the most out of control federal agencies in the Federal Government, the Internal Revenue Service. Over the past nine months we have heard volumes of testimony…

No, I didn't say it is for all of Europe. I said we would have a Europe, as we expand NATO eastward, that gives Europe an opportunity from east to west, all of Europe, to be democratic, opportunity to develop market economies, the…

last month the U.N. global climate treaty became available for the formal signatures of those countries who reached agreement in Kyoto, Japan, in December. President Clinton has not signed the treaty. There is speculation, however, that he…

First, our economy is connected to all economies of the world. When Asian markets go down and currencies are devalued, that means very simply that we in the United States cannot sell our products in Asia. Asia has represented over the last…