Harry Reid

Finally, I say to my friend from South Carolina that the debate here is not over. The Senator from South Carolina is not the reason this bill isn't going forward. The reason this bill is not going forward is that they will not allow the…

It is not as if the Senator from South Carolina is a junior member of the Budget Committee. He is a senior member of the Democratic Party, and he can't even have a hearing on the bill in the Budget Committee.

Let me say this to the Senator from South Carolina before I give up the floor. We have talked today about a couple of very important items, separate and apart from this underlying legislation, to show what we have been unable to accomplish…

We are talking statistics and we are talking about names of people whom we don't know, such as Matthew Byrd, the young man in Wyoming. But the fact is, every day in America, someone's husband, son, daughter, or wife is being hurt--a real…

In closing our dialog, I have confidence in the sense the Senator has, that this will all come out. I hope the Senator is right. My concern is--based upon what Senator Daschle a few minutes ago, when he said they have put in the landfill…

The minority leader has mentioned, and the Senator from California has just mentioned, minimum wage. Does the Senator from California understand that over 60 percent of the people who draw minimum wage are women, and of those 60 percent…

We have been so impeded in progress around here. Does the Senator also recognize we have done nothing with important environmental issues facing this country?

I would like the Senator to comment on something that was killed here a couple weeks ago, and that is campaign finance reform. Why is it needed? Especially in light of all these false ads that have been running all over this country, why…

Republicans have been running ads, I have been told, in that congressional district, which is that whole State, saying Democrats are bad because we are using Social Security surpluses to balance the budget. Are they running ads like that…

Does the Senator recall that the Senators on the floor offered our own constitutional amendment to balance the budget that said we want to balance the budget the hard way, the honest way, and we do not want to use Social Security…

I ask the Senator, is he aware that instead of their scheme of the week, they have now done two schemes this week? So maybe next week they will use one of the old ones. Is the Senator aware that one of the latest schemes is to withhold…

As part of their scheme-of-the-week program to have this blue smoke and mirrors, is the Senator also aware--I know he answered this question, as he so aptly pointed out--that now they want an across-the-board cut, saying they want to…

In addition to having two sets of books, in addition to extending the year another month, as my friend from Illinois has said-- that is great, because in doing that, we will never have a Y2K problem; we just keep adding months to the…

I ask my friend from Massachusetts, is he aware, in addition to this latest scheme--that is what I call it--this across-the-board cut, in this one-a-week program the Republicans have come up with, they also wanted to do a number of other…

Are you aware it was determined even by the very conservative Wall Street Journal they had two sets of books they were trying to keep in an effort to hide the spending of Social Security moneys?

That is something we were talking about over here. I say to the chairman of the full committee that we have already looked at these amendments. A number of Members on this side are waiting to see what amendments are being offered on the…

I did not want to get into a ``who did this; who did not do that.'' I acknowledge, selling the lists was wrong. The fact is, though, that PBS stations made these lists available to both parties. Without getting too partisan, we know the…

The manager of this bill and the Senator from Iowa have done a good job in constructing this $91.7 billion bill, and they have included things regarding health and education. There is nothing more educational for the American public than…

I say to my friend in closing, I understand there might be a cost involved. CBO has indicated to the manager of the bill $50 million. I think it would be a fraction of that, but we need not get into that today. For any one of these women I…

We, the minority, are not stalling this bill. All we want is a simple up-or-down vote on whether or not we are going to lay off 29,000 teachers. We believe those teachers should have their jobs, should be able to keep their jobs.

It is my understanding what she wants is a vote, up or down, on whether or not this bill is going to allow the termination of 29,000 teachers or whether those teachers will have jobs.

I say to my friend from Oregon, I have appreciated his presentation. It reminds me of the work he has done since he has been in Congress. We served together in the House of Representatives, and the Senator from Oregon was known in the…

I, too, stand to express my concern over the possible direction of the Treasury regulations. The Senator from Iowa and I worked long and hard to fix this problem in 1996. We worked with the various staffs here in Congress and at the…

I also ask this question of the leader. We did not oppose the motion to proceed; the minority did not oppose the motion to proceed. But I am of the impression and belief that there are a lot of other things due. The Patients' Bill of…

One final question to the leader. We have, as I understand it, about 203 days left until the Y2K date arrives. If we wait now until Tuesday to vote on this, we are going to have less than 200 days to get this legislation passed, to get it…