And if given the choice, Madam President, what do you think a company is going to do? It is not going to have an employee stock option program for the secretaries or for the janitors or for the midlevel management or for other levels of…

for years now, I have risen before this body and others to speak out about the desperate condition facing urban America and the crisis facing our urban communities, our families, and our children. While we can wallow in our frustration…

each April we pause to remember the first great crime of the 20th century, the massacre of 1\1/2\ million Armenians by the Ottoman empire and its successor state between 1915 and 1923. It is particularly appropriate that in this year, a…

If those counties were not luring in other people, tourists, to create more hardship, this case would be a stronger case. But the reality is that the money will go to counties that do not deserve the money. It is a blind contribution. It…

the basic message on this bill is that we really cannot afford it. We have a mushrooming budget deficit, a growing national debt. We need to cut spending, not increase spending. This program increases spending. For 200 years there was no…

The Senate finds that-- (1) continuing budget deficits and the accumulation of Federal debt have a detrimental impact on the Nation's long- term economic growth prospects; (2) in the absence of further fiscal restraint, the Congressional…

before there is a long list of people coming down to defend these programs that I just mentioned, let me remind them that this resolution does not pinpoint any specific expenditures. It simply asks that these programs be treated in a…

America's most important relationship internationally is with a country that is in the throes of a historic transformation. It is a country trying to break free from the bureaucratic shackles which have victimized its people and reduced…

barely a year has passed since I rose on this floor to introduce my urban community-building initiative, eight bills designed to give creative people in communities at the heart of the turmoil the tools to rebuild strong, supportive…

I rise as an original cosponsor to speak in support of the Gun Violence Prevention Act. I want to congratulate the Senator from Ohio, Senator Metzenbaum, for his work on this bill. In addition, on the day the historic Brady bill goes into…

I rise in support of the low-income school choice demonstration amendment. Choice may not be the panacea for all our Nation's education ills, but we cannot afford not to take an honest look at whether more options would help kids who today…

that is an example of the kind of statement that the Senate should condemn. At another point he said: We found out that the Federal Reserve ain't really owned by the Federal Government * * * But it ain't owned by the Federal Government…