William Helms

None of us favor unreasonable implementation of anything. Having said what I have said in criticism of this sort of thing that has been going on, let me say in my 21 years in the Senate, I have hundreds of examples of where U.S. Embassies…

As of the close of business on Friday, January 28, the Federal debt stood at $4,512,950,244,156.40, meaning that on a per capita basis, every man, woman and child in America owes $17,310.16 as his or her share of that debt.

This amendment puts the President's right to waive certain provisions regarding the PLO into permanent law. The State Department assures us these changes are necessary for the peace process to move ahead smoothly. Senator Pell and I have…

The Senator is saying we are just packing all the things in and the President is trying to work to this aspect and this aspect and that aspect separately. That is not the way I am advised that the President's Executive order and his report…

I confess a lot of what I know is in their heads. But the point that they suggest that I make to the Senator at this moment is that the President's Executive order and the President's report to Congress that follows that order reflect all…

I do not quite understand his position on that because this is a very fine document written by and introduced by a distinguished majority leader of the Senate in April 1993. True enough it was first introduced during a different set of…

But I do not quite understand, nor do I share the Senator's position that we ought not to be confrontational with the Communist Chinese.

But China is sitting back laughing at us. They are sitting back laughing at us, and they are going to continue to do things that this amendment addresses. Let me say that I applaud thus far the position that the administration has taken…

If my friend will yield, I am not suggesting we go back to the campaign at all. I am just pointing out that the President took a stronger position then. If he wants to get some others, including the distinguished chairman of the Foreign…

That is not what the current President said, Madam President, when he was campaigning in 1992. He just lambasted Bush. And as I said in my remarks, I applauded what he said. Did I not say that?

The pending amendment stipulates that the U.S. Senate will not consent to the ratification of any treaty providing for international criminal court, unless and until American citizens are guaranteed that nothing in the terms establishing…