J. Exon

I will be back on the floor on this matter, though, next week before the vote or votes are held on the matter on which I wish to address the Senate today. There has been a great amount of behind-the-scenes activity. There has been a great…

This is the blue book. This is a sample of what is available today free of charge: Click, click, click on the computer, on the information superhighway. This will be available for any of my colleagues who are not familiar with what is…

First, to be facetious, I would like to advise my colleague from Nebraska that unless he misspoke or unless I heard him wrong, he said something to the effect that he sees nothing wrong with the U.S. Senate. If somebody would take that out…

I congratulate the managers of this bill, the Senator from Delaware and the Senator from Utah, both very good friends of mine. I have the utmost faith and confidence in their abilities. I recognize they do not always agree. But I believe…

I wanted to reiterate my strong opposition to the sale of the Power Marketing Administrations. Until someone can show me some real benefits of privatization, I will continue to oppose the sale of the PMA's. The Power Marketing…

I am pleased to learn that even distantly we are reaching a point when we will move ahead and dispose of the remaining amendments and hopefully, pass the defense supplemental defense bill today. It is critical that we get moving on this. I…

The Senator is correct. Because IDEA is a voluntary discretionary Federal program, it is not considered a Federal intergovernmental mandate. Therefore, none of the provisions applicable to Federal intergovernmental mandates included in the…

I want to simply add my voice of concern, as I think has been so well articulated by himself, and I think before him by my friend and colleague from the State of Illinois, who has been with us in trying to focus attention on the dire…

I rise to introduce the High-Risk Drivers Act. Senator Danforth and I worked very hard on this legislation in the last Congress and I hope it can be passed quickly this year. This is indeed a most appropriate time for introduction and…

I think it is the same, as I outlined in my remarks, since it passed the House and the Senate. I see no reason why we cannot expedite passage of this matter. I have delayed introducing it only because there were many other things going on…

I hope we can maybe come together on some kind of compromise, some kind of understanding that does not so weaken and change the constitutional amendment to balance the budget that it will not work. Last but not least, whatever we do, I…

I think after the years that I have served here and on the Budget Committee, I must say that without that discipline that I think we have exhibited in the past by the tendencies that seem to prevail and by the fact that we have not even…

How in the world could a Senator from Nebraska, after reading this work by the Wharton group, support a balanced budget amendment? Well, No. 1, I have not had a chance to study this in great detail. Obviously, the organization that…

my colleagues know that I am a long-time supporter of the balanced budget constitutional amendment. We have tried numerous other remedies, but they have failed to restrain our buy-now-and-pay-later habits. We have only proved how clever we…

as we move forward on the mandates legislation, I would like to read a portion of a newspaper article that appeared in the Omaha World Herald on January 24. The headline reads: ``States Fear Mandates, Expert Says; Balanced Budget Could…

my answer would be that obviously I would think that since the Parliamentarian does not have an estimating organization under his control, I would think the precedent, as the Senator from Michigan fully well knows, that the Parliamentarian…

I also simply say that with regard to the House of Representatives, we merely included what we understood our colleagues in the House wanted to do. We do not choose to impose any solution on the House of Representatives. We think we are…

it may be a misunderstanding and we may be talking by each other on some of these matters. I simply point out what I think the ranking member of the Governmental Affairs Committee just alluded to, and that is the fact that what we are…

I would simply amplify what I said before: in practice, that is the way it has always worked. It has worked very, very well. We do not think it should change.

as we may be beginning to make progress on this, maybe we can agree to this amendment. I advise my friend from Ohio that this Senator did not negotiate with the House of Representatives on this matter. I understand that the majority side…

the answer to my very dear friend is that, no, the Budget Committee does not have to accept in toto the dollars and cents on anything submitted by the Congressional Budget Office to the Budget Committee. But for all practical purposes, we…

In a similar vein, Mr. President, the proposal of some to raise the requirement for waiving the new point of order from a majority vote to 60 votes would also split the bipartisan coalition. Another 60-vote point of order in this context…

I rise in support of S. 1, which the Budget Committee unanimously ordered reported on Monday... we are passing the buck without the bucks.

Year after year, billions of the taxpayers' dollars are larded across the Nation for pork barrel projects created at the behest of our fellow Members. This is nothing new. Each session, Congress persists in passing appropriations bill…

I would certainly say that I am one of those who for a long time has supported a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, and I intend to support one when it is finally presented in some form, if that form does not raise too many…