William Helms

I do not have two better friends in this body than Senator Biden...the statement they made that we have not had any hearings in the Foreign Relations Committee, that is strange. On Wednesday, June 14 of last year, 2000, 3:30 p.m., Dirksen…

On behalf of the 2.7 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Ladies Auxiliary, I want to express our strong support for amendment number 1690 to the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1438, the…

I thank the chairman. In addition to the $500,000 provided for the Sex Offender Registration Unit, there is one other matter involving the county that I would like to address. Senator Edwards and I combined our efforts in support of the…

I say to the Senator, I commend you for the position you have taken. And I join you in making clear all of the relevant facts about this matter, specifically those involving the German firm.

As the largest and most universally acclaimed youth-serving organization in the world, the Boy Scouts of America has led millions of young boys to respect and abide by the fundamental virtues of duty to God and respect for individual…

These groups support John Bolton because of his political views, because of his political expertise, and because of, yes, his personal moral principles. John Bolton is precisely the kind of citizen the United States desperately needs in…

As the Senator from Delaware knows, the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor, designated in title 23 U.S.C., Section 104(d)(2), is a vital part of the national transportation system. Within the corridor the Charlotte-Greensboro-Raleigh…

I congratulate Senators Mack, Kyl, Lautenberg, and Feinstein, for their fine work on getting this anti-terrorism legislation through the Congress and passed.

Moreover, I understand that the committee intends that the prescription drugs purchased off the Federal Supply Schedule can only be used for Indians whose health care is provided by the tribe, and cannot be purchased or used for resale…

I understand that H.R. 1167, the bill to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide for further self-governance by Indian tribes, contains a provision that would allow Indian tribes to purchase prescription…

I thank the Chairman. He is always candid, always helpful, and an outstanding Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. I am genuinely grateful for his concern for the flood victims of North Carolina.

Is it not correct that the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, along with the Majority Leader, Mr. Lott, have made clear their intent to include additional emergency natural disaster aid-- including the aforementioned $81 million for…

Is it not correct that the Senate, with only one dissenting vote, approved, in October 1999, $81 million in payments to farmers, but the House refused to follow the Senate's action because North Carolina tobacco farmers would benefit?

Is it not correct that this 1999's aid package of more than $800 million was in addition to nearly $1 billion of federal disaster aid directed to North Carolina through established federal disaster programs?

And if it will encourage your President to at least stop some of his other activities and look at what is happening over there.

Let me tell you something, my friend. I will put this amendment on anything I can, if it does one ounce of benefit for the Chechen people.

I am absolutely amazed that any Senate Democrat, particularly my long-time friend from Connecticut, would talk about offering legislation on appropriations bills. I hope he won't take this further because I will cite hundreds of instances…

I find it incredible that Mr. Akhmadov's requests for a meeting with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other senior U.S. Government officials have been flatly rejected. As a matter of fact, I resent the fact that they conducted…

I am getting a little weary of this business of saying this is true and that is true when it is not true. We have held at least nine hearings on this matter. We have invited Senators to come. They didn't want to come. I have done the best…

I take exception to the circumstances that would have been dictated by the War Powers Act... I would resign from the Senate before I would have done that voluntarily.

I must confess that I myself have long been alarmed by America's drift away from the moral and spiritual principles and priorities upon which our nation was founded more than two centuries ago.

As the review of the NAM study makes clear, most of these actions were taken at the President's discretion, either by Executive Order or based a law where President had broad waiver authority. If the Senate is going to have a debate over…

President Clinton and the International Monetary Fund have shifted into overdrive in their effort to save the economies of Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand--or, to be more accurate, to save the pocketbooks of…

The Commission by law had two goals: to study how to protect the important government secrets while simultaneously reducing the enormous amount of classified documents and materials. We began our deliberations with the premise that…