Harry Reid

But it should create a state of despair for all generations, not only my generation, but my children's generation and their grandchildren. I have three grandchildren, all girls: Two age 4, one age 2. I want to protect them, because the…

Mr. President, if the Senator from California would look at page 19, the paragraph that begins ``Total outlays,'' right above where the Senator has been reading, it stands on its head what my friend from Idaho said. Listen: ``Total outlays…

I would be interested if the Senator from California could answer a question based on what the Senator from Illinois said. Why, then, was not Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae excluded? Why is it only the Tennessee Valley Authority?

I wanted to publicly commend and applaud the Senator from California for her yeoman's work in regard to excluding Social Security from the balanced budget amendment.

There are these huge surpluses that are building up in the Social Security trust fund that I believe we must protect. Failure to save the surplus could undermine Social Security. We must be concerned how Social Security is treated in the…

I say to my friend from North Dakota, as I have said on this floor on another occasion, the answer is, that is where the money is. As Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber said when he was let out of prison, they asked, ``Why do you rob…

I am not sure the Record can reflect, which it will not, the emotion that was given in the rendition of this speech by the Senator from New Hampshire. I hope that the people of New Hampshire, whoever reads this in the Record and whoever…

I had a very close personal friend--we were raised together, he and his family. We were neighbors when we were boys. We talked often about his little boy in a Little League baseball game. This is a big, rough family--always very physical…

The presence of the product on the list does not, by itself, create liability on the part of the manufacturer. Again, of course, failure to comply with the requirements of section 404 is actionable.

This section is intended to preserve State and other Federal statutory and common law with respect to whether the labeling requirements of this bill may be used as a defense by a manufacturer in any civil or criminal action brought under…

I wanted this spread on the Record, Mr. President, because I wanted the Record to reflect that anyone wanting to come and tell us about the problems with lead, either pro or con, has been given the opportunity to do that.

Senator Inouye and I would not accept that suggested change. We do not need to debate it here now, Mr. President. Right now that is the whole problem the Indian nation has, that someone else is doing the work for them. We want this work to…

In short, this amendment seeks to ensure that the rights of sovereign tribal governments are fully respected, as the memorandum outlines. This amendment ensures that Indian tribes are consulted in determining the use of funds to address…

I also will say, if you look at those 59 claims, 56 or 57 of them--leaving 1 or 2 of modern mines--all the rest of mines that are very, very old. That does not mean the mining industry should not be involved in cleaning those up. I think…

Let me close by saying, I said this publicly in the last 5 years, and I say it this year. If the conference committee comes up with a reasonable reform, the companies that do business in Nevada have asked me if I will support reasonable…

The truth is stranger than fiction. On the eastern side of Nevada where one of these trails is, these people would walk across miles and miles and miles of desert. The first water they came to, the early people did not know, but it was…

However, I would say let us switch the burden. If in fact there is something wrong with this amendment--which I do not think there is; I think it has been clearly illustrated why it would help the business community of America and not help…

If, in fact, one of the reasons for this bill is to encourage more chapter 13 filings, I think that is really not a reason to do it. We are getting plenty of that. As I indicated, the chapter 13 filings are going sky high. I mentioned that…

That is the whole point. The Senator from Texas has missed that. We have already done what we are asking the American public to do. That is the whole point. That is why we made all these cuts, and I have outlined those today, in franking…

The assumptions that we received from the Senator's office that was passed out with this amendment on March 22, 1994, at 11:35 a.m. indicate that there would be these significant cuts. I did not make these up. This is information we got…

I think it is irresponsible for the Members on the other side of the aisle to say that they are going to vote against my amendment. The only hope we have of having a constitutional amendment is that we have some of our friends on the other…

The point of that provision is to provide that a nonpartisan, unelected official could make that decision. That seems totally reasonable. But I find it amazing that the Senator from Utah complained of ceding powers to unelected officials…

The Senators from Utah and Arizona complained my amendment delegates powers to an unelected official, the Director of CBO, to make economic determinations.

The Reid substitute does what is done in virtually every State in the Union. Virtually every State in the Union has a balanced budget. We should have one, but we should do it in a reasonable manner. What the Reid substitute does is say…

That question has been raised and we were told by the experts that the word ``net'' is a better term of art; however, it accomplishes the same thing as the underlying Simon amendment.