I rise along with Senator Hatch to support the Right to Bear Arms Protection and Privacy Act of 2000. This bill embodies the goals of several bills I have previously introduced, and its passage would be a great relief for millions of law…

The criticism on the filibuster is a bit unwarranted. I could have come down here and thrown the Senate into quorum calls and delayed and delayed just for the sake of delay. None of us on our side, including me, did any such thing. We…

We have a circuit court, the Ninth Circuit, widely considered by most objective observers a renegade circuit that is out of the mainstream of American jurisprudence, a circuit court that has had decisions overturned by the Supreme Court…

several comments have been made today, I think correctly so. I do not think the information was out. But it is interesting we now have a capital sentencing case, Arreguin v. Prunty, in which Judge Paez was reversed, as of yesterday…

as we have gone through this debate, although my name was not attached to anything in terms of a filibuster, it is no secret that I have been the person who has filibustered these two nominees, Judge Berzon and Judge Paez. The issue is…

As we continue this debate, I refer back to the Ninth Circuit chart behind me. This is a situation where we see, again, nearly 90 percent of the Ninth Circuit cases have been reversed by the Supreme Court. I have had this chart up all…

let me briefly discuss the other nominee, Marsha Berzon. I think we have made a pretty overwhelming and compelling case about the Ninth Circuit itself being out of touch in having almost 90 percent of its cases overturned, as the chart in…

I remember Clarence Thomas and people going in to find out what videos he purchased. He had a family. And Robert Bork had a family. And Doug Ginsburg had a family. I remember some very nasty things being said about those nominees. We are…

I think the constitutional process is very clear that the Senate has the right and the responsibility, under the Constitution, to advise and consent. That is exactly what I intend to do in my role as a Senator as it pertains to these two…

I believe there were some 66 nominations brought through during the Bush years. This is not about the number of people. I think it is a fairly reasonable assessment to say if those nominations came through in 1992 or from 1989 through the…

I rise for the purpose of submitting a Senate concurrent resolution objecting to any efforts to expel or degrade the Holy See's current status as a nonmember permanent observer to the United Nations. It is hard to believe there are people…

I regret I have to stand up here again with my colleagues and defend the second amendment because we should not have to do that. I am honored to do it, but it is one of our amendments. It is No. 2 in the Constitution. I find myself…

They are basically saying they are going to throw these suits out. That is the gist of it. They are not constitutional. The courts recognize that. The judges said they were completely lacking any legal basis. Now the President wants to…

on the case of Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who is now in Miami, I support Senator Mack's private relief bill to give Elian Gonzalez U.S. citizenship. This is something I believe should be done. It is not necessarily going to stop…

earlier today, there was quite a bit of colorful rhetoric and blustering on the floor by the Democratic Party about reports in the Washington Post today that Republicans were going to create a ``13th month'' to allow more spending on…

the resolution that I am submitting today provides that immediately following the prayer such as we just heard this morning by Chaplain Ogilvie, at the beginning of each daily session of the Senate, the Presiding Officer of the Senate…

I rise to introduce two resolutions concerning our trade relationships with the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Last Thursday, June 3, 1999, the President of the United States formally recommended waivers…

I am introducing the Combined Sewer Overflow Control and Partnership Act of 1999. The control of overflows from sewer systems is a serious environmental and financial concern for hundreds of communities across this country. For my own…

Accompanying the amendment were floor statements expressing our intent that the offset be derived from within the Department of Commerce, and specifically within Function 370. After negotiations with Senators Leahy and Feingold and other…

I rise today to express my wholehearted, overwhelming, passionate, and unwavering support of the National Missile Defense Act of 1999. Finally, after years of fighting to get this legislation to a point where we can pass it, we appear to…

I rise to introduce the ``Second Anendment Rights Protection Act of 1999.'' I am pleased and honored that Senators Inhofe, Burns, Enzi, and Murkowski are joining me as original cosponsors. Mr. President, the Second Amendment Rights…

Mr. President, 1999 is the eighty-sixth anniversary of the Sixteenth Amendment and the collection of income taxes by the Federal government. It is not an anniversary that we really, in my view, ought to celebrate. As a matter of fact, I…

as President Reagan would say, ``Here we go again.'' This administration is now on the verge of making a commitment of American forces to another 911 humanitarian crisis around the world, without the approval of Congress. As I stand here…

Mr. Chief Justice, thank you very much. I would certainly give more than a penny for your thoughts on this matter. But I am afraid we will probably never know. Mr. Chief Justice, I have been proud to be a U.S. Senator ever since that day…

I voted against the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999. One of the principal reasons why I voted against the bill is that it does not include two critically important provisions of the…