the proponent of this amendment has stated it is reasonable. She wants to take the first step for the legislative branch to save money. In all due respect to my friend from Texas, the proponent of this amendment, I say the amendment is not…

let us take the General Accounting Office. If we do follow the assumptions of the Senator from Texas that we do a 25-percent cut in addition to the 600 people we already cut from GAO, how much Government waste, fraud, and abuse will occur…

they no doubt proclaim that the sponsors have offered a proposal to slash the fat from a bloated legislative branch bill. But before anyone takes these claims at face value, they should be aware of an uncomfortably inconsistent fact. The…

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…

The health plan that is now before Congress that has been given to us by the President of the United States builds on the current system. It is not a radical departure from what has been going on as it relates to how people will be cared…

They say their staff starts at $4.50 an hour. The only benefit they got was group health insurance. Now they cannot get that. Why? Because two of their employees were pregnant and one had diabetes so they were denied coverage. So there is…

During his recent State of the Union speech, President Clinton reminded us that our Nation is facing a health care crisis and a crime crisis, both of which are threatening the present-- and more importantly--future well-being of our…

The reason I wish to stand at this time is to spread across the Record in this Congress and for the American public and future generations, something that is unique that we just heard. I am an attorney. I went to law school, practiced law…

During this lull in the proceedings, I thought it would be important--in that we have just a short amount of time to debate the Reid substitute--I think it is important to note again the differences between the Simon balanced budget…

this is a balanced budget amendment that Senators Reid, Ford, and Feinstein have offered. It treats the Federal Government like the family is treated in America, like the State governments are treated, where they balance their budgets. It…

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…

I want to bring to the attention of this body during this lull in the proceedings, a column written by James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, Director of Intelligence and Director of Budget. It is interesting that a number of…

I want to bring to the attention of this body during this lull in the proceedings, a column written by James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, Director of Intelligence and Director of Budget. It is interesting that a number of…

the most direct, concise statement made during the last two presentations was the statement made by my friend from Idaho that this was not an accurate depiction of the Reid substitute. And that is true. What we have been dealing with here…

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

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…

with some urgency and concern, I spoke yesterday to this Chamber about the balanced budget amendment. That urgency and concern have only increased. I believe a specter haunts this body, Madam President. Gaunt lined and hollow eyed as death…

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…

I do not think they would be required to. I say they have not done it in the past. I assume we could get them to start doing that even though it would be extremely difficult to do that.

I hope every senior citizen and every disabled American was listening to the presentation made by the Senator from Utah and the Senator from Arizona. The Reid balanced budget amendment balances the budget, but not on the backs of senior…

I respond by saying that, as I have indicated, virtually every State has an operating budget and a capital budget. Senator Ford, a former Governor of Kentucky, came and spoke at some length about how he conducted business when he was the…

I want to compliment the Senator from West Virginia, the President pro tempore, for his wide-ranging accounting of the history of the power of the purse. The encyclopedic memory of the Senator from West Virginia is truly a marvel. Senators…

I suggest to my friend from New Mexico that the fact of the matter is that for 40-odd years, we have been carrying this in our accounting of the Federal budget. States have had decades and decades of experience. There was a statement that…

The budget experts have told us that the word ``net'' is the appropriate term of art to use, that it comes out to the same monetary number that is in the Simon amendment. They just felt the word ``net'' is a better term of art.

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.