Robert Torricelli

last month the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy, came to the floor to urge the Republican leadership to allow the body to consider reform of managed health care in our country. Today, I also want to join his plea that this…

anyone who has been listening to this debate on the Senate floor in the last few weeks is now familiar with the painful but very real statistics. Each day, 3,000 young Americans begin smoking and eventually 1,000 will die. I can think of…

Although I have not been in this institution long, I have already discovered one thing about the Senate. Things are not often as they appear. This discussion has been almost entirely about money, what fees are paid, and who pays them. But…

I rise on an issue of great importance to me, personally, and I believe many other Members of the Senate. Winston Churchill once noted that nations whose sons fight and die together forever change their relationship. Seven years ago, the…

like the Senator from Virginia, my remarks are not based on a belief that the cause and reasons for NATO have expired. Quite the contrary. My concern is that whatever we do in the expansion of NATO has real credibility. I raise the…

It is, I think, worth noting that the decision before this Senate is neither new nor without the apprehension that should come with historic experience. On March 31, 1939, Neville Chamberlain rose in the British Parliament and announced…

I certainly share your support for making same-gender education available to more parents and their children. The benefits of same-gender education have been demonstrated in the context of private and parochial schools, and the evidence is…

Mr. President, I will concede that when this debate began I believed we were entering upon something very important, that after years of fooling ourselves about the quality of education in America, the Senate was about to undertake a broad…

Mr. President, there is a significant chance that this Senate will one day be remembered for having finally begun to address the problems of educational quality in America. President Clinton in his State of the Union Address challenged…

I asked that this amendment be read in its entirety so that its simplicity is clear to the Senate. The totality of what is being asked is that the Justice Department, in negotiating with the W.R. Grace Corporation about a contaminated…

I think it would be regrettable if this Senate ever allows itself to be silenced in simply expressing its intentions or desires because the executive branch may have conflicting views or believe an issue is its prerogative. Ultimately, the…

I, quite the contrary, rise in recognition of something significant that has not been added to the supplemental appropriations bill. It is one of those few instances where there is a genuine achievement by the Senate in failing to act. It…

Indeed, if I had to identify financially my own expectation about the largest single recipient of this funding, I suspect there is a chance it would be public schoolteachers who do the tutoring after school, who will be hired by families…

I cannot accept, and I do not understand, those who would come to the Senate and argue the state of American education and defend the status quo. American education needs to be addressed, not in the margins but in every fundamental aspect…

Or Georgetown--whether a religious affiliated school or private education; that these should be for private education only. I have never heard a Member of the Senate say that. To my judgment, it has never happened. The reason is, it would…

there is always a desire of a Member of the Senate to be philosophically consistent, so I think the question bears some scrutiny. Members of the Senate have previously voted for Hope scholarships and student loan programs in this country…

2 weeks ago, all of our hopes for campaign finance reform in this session of the Congress were once again frustrated. A year of investigations, legislative proposals, and public debate were met with a filibuster led by the Republican…

I thank Senators McCain, Chafee, Baucus, and Hollings for their support for my efforts to have the Department of Transportation investigate how to improve the safety of transporting high-risk hazardous waste material on our Nation's…

inscribed on the corridors of this Capitol are the words of William Henry Harrison, spoken at his Presidential inauguration in 1841. He said: ``The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.'' Indeed…

last week, President Clinton called upon the Senate to use but one principal criteria when considering nominations for ambassadors for the United States. In his words, that criteria simply stated is: ``Will he or will he not be a good…

I am very proud to join the Senator from North Dakota in offering this amendment. In our Federal system, there is always a preference for State and local governments setting standards of health and safety for our citizens. By right, those…

Mr, President, I rise today in support of Senator D'Amato's resolution supporting Italy's inclusion as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Should this international body expand, I can think of no country more worthy…

the debate before the Senate is about campaign finance reform but, indeed, it is really about something much more fundamental. It is about the credibility of the U.S. Government. It may even be about the long-term stability of our system…

today I am joined by my distinguished colleague from Wisconsin, Senator Kohl, in introducing the ``Bounty Hunter Accountability and Quality Assurance Act of 1998.'' Our bill will begin the process of reforming the revered but antiquated…

I rise today for a different purpose. I want to talk about justice--not the justice of the individual in these cases but the administration of justice by the Government itself. I do so from the perspective of a member of the Judiciary…