Frank Lautenberg

Mr. President, I hope the American public is looking at this because this is kind of ``inside baseball.'' This is what helps people get from place to place, get to work on time, get to the hospital on time, get to church on time. We are…

I rise to join Senator Robb in opposing the Santorum-Lieberman amendment. I support the new markets initiative promoted by the President and Speaker Hastert, but I think it is important for my colleagues to understand that this amendment…

these letters are opposed to authorization or appropriation language that limits the importance of penalties in deterring environmental violations. In fact, the letter signed by twenty-one environmental groups states ``Creating a special…

I rise to support the Gorton-Feinstein motion to instruct. This states that the House CAFE freeze rider ought not to be accepted by the Senate in conference. When CAFE standards were first passed in the late 1970s, light trucks made up…

the one thing we can always count on from Senator Byrd is to throw in some good, sensible reflection as we go on battering one another, at times over sometimes important things but sometimes not so important. There is a commercial about…

I want to talk about this Allard amendment because it gives an appearance of reserving $12.2 billion for deficit reduction. I support that goal, and I am not going to oppose this amendment. But I really want to make it clear that, as a…

I assure the Senator from Michigan that specific requests will be carefully considered. Exhibit 1 Michigan Public Transit Association, Lansing, MI, June 15, 2000. To: Michigan Congressional Delegation In regard to FY 2000-01 Section 5309…

this bill includes a critical measure to make .08 the national drunk driving standard. Chairman Shelby and I both care deeply about improving transportation across this country, but we also share a commitment to making sure our…

I salute the fact that the appropriations chairman is anxious to get this finished. The subcommittee chairman and I are also anxious. But the one thing that concerns me--and I am not going to object to the request that was made--is this…

I thank my pal from Maryland. We have been good friends. Senator Mikulski said something that got my attention. She said she has looked up to me. We have differences in height in a lot of places, but no one has ever looked down to Senator…

I rise in support of the Sustainable Green Manufacturing initiative. This is an important effort to help the Army reduce pollution in its key manufacturing processes by introducing clean technologies and techniques onto production lines…

I rise today to discuss with Senator Inouye and Senator Stevens an important Army research and development effort in nonlinear acoustic landmine detection being done at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Mr. President, let me…

I rise to congratulate the New Jersey Devils for winning the National Hockey League's 2000 Stanley Cup Championship. On Saturday night, the Devils defeated the Dallas Stars 2 to 1 in double overtime to win the finals in six games. This is…

I am in opposition to section 2410 in the military construction appropriations bill, which in the view of most, I think it is fair to say, effectively terminates the U.S. military role in Kosovo. I opposed this amendment when it was…

I say in response to the commentary of the Senator from Oklahoma, I talked of hundreds of thousands. If the Senator listened carefully, I talked about displacement, and I talked about movements. I did not talk about deaths. We can get the…

Trivializing the ownership of guns, saying that if we have gun enforcement laws, guards from the Federal Government will come into every room in every house. Don't protect the children. He wants to have a statistical debate about how many…

the teacher, Patty Nielson, from Columbine is right in her statement. It is shocking that anyone can get a gun so easily at a gun show. The American people understand this issue. In every poll, more than 80 percent of the American people…

now that we are considering the conference report on the free trade bill, which I support, I point out while this legislation is designed to improve economic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of these sub-Saharan countries have…

I was making the point that we in this country have a problem of our own regarding gun violence, which is very detrimental to the harmonious functioning within our society. We have these huge differences between those who think that 'guns…

In all due respect, I say this to my friend from Florida for whom I have a great deal of respect and admiration. Reunification of families is something we wrestle with here all the time--people pleading to allow a relative to join a family…

I firmly believe this is the wrong budget resolution at the wrong time because we are still in the position that, with rare exception, we have almost no bipartisan agreement. [...] What should we do to use the funds we have available on…

the amendment sounds as if it protects Medicare, but it would cause even deeper cuts in education and law enforcement and would make implementing Medicare reforms more difficult in the future, including implementing a prescription drug…

I stopped in the middle of my statement because I was astonished by the Senator's generous attitude, and so we will skip the amendment as long as he will withdraw the amendment.

Yes, the Democrats voted against this budget resolution. It wasn't so much on the issues we wanted to have taken care of. It is fair to say, if one listened to the debate, one could determine that each side wants to protect Social Security…

the Democratic alternative reflects six key principles in its budget. It protects every penny of the Social Security surplus; it pays down the public debt by 2013; it funds a badly needed prescription drug benefit; it includes targeted tax…