Congress in its daily routine of deliberating and passing legislation, especially environmental legislation such as the Safe Drinking Water Act, being dealt with on the floor today, makes decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of…

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…

I have been wearing eye glasses now for about a year. I went to my ophthalmologist, a man I have known in Las Vegas for many years, to get my new glasses. As we were waiting for his staff to come, we were sitting in his office visiting, he…

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…

Mr. President, I am a cosponsor of the bill introduced by Senator Campbell to study the designation of the Old Spanish Trail and the Northern Branch of the Old Spanish Trail as a national historic trail. This trail, and its Northern…

Last September, I had the opportunity to spend 1 day going over the immigrant trails to California. It was a wonderful experience to see the wagon ruts that crossed this land, some of the last people having gone across here well over 100…

1 year ago, on May 5, 1993, our esteemed colleague Robert C. Byrd initiated a series of 14 addresses on the subject of the line-item-veto. During the following 5 months, he delivered each of these speeches--packed with names, dates, and…

on Saturday, April 30, the Anti-Defamation League will be honoring Dr. Ikram Khan of Las Vegas, NV, with its prestigious Distinguished Public Service Award. As every Member of the U.S. Senate knows, the Anti-Defamation League has been a…

Mr. President, I offered an amendment earlier today to curtail congressional parking privileges at Washington airports. The amendment occasioned brief but intense debate in opposition to it. At the time, I chose not to respond to the…

I received a fax yesterday in the form of a letter from an attorney in Reno, NV, by the name of Jeffrey Giles. I think, Mr. President, this sums up why we are here today. Dear Senator Reid. I received a fax from the National Association of…

the amendment that I offer has a direct relationship to bankruptcy. My amendment will save thousands of this country's senior citizens who live on fixed incomes from filing for bankruptcy as a result of the very unfair practice of taxation…

Mr. President, this woman, being honest, wants to find out why she owes this money. She has claimed she had not had to pay these taxes in the past. Why now? To make a long story very short, the other State went back several years and…

Congress is currently considering one of the most comprehensive cases of anticrime legislation, and that is consistent with what all of us are hearing from our constituents on a daily basis: Enact tough but fair legislation so that those…

Why is this rule necessary? Many reasons. For example, the debtor subsequently filing a chapter 13 plan will not attempt to make a single payment to his creditors. Without the bankruptcy court's confirmation of a plan, the creditor is…

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…

I am the chairman of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee and I have a responsibility, as chairman of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, to make sure that every year there is enough money to run the affairs…

I appreciate the clarification. Mr. President, when my friend from Iowa stated he was not aware--I am paraphrasing--of other areas in the Bankruptcy Code where they have such a harsh time limit, that is really not factual either, I…

I rise today in support of S. 455, a bill to increase the amount of funding for the Payments In Lieu of Texas [PILT] Program. As a cosponsor of this important piece of legislation, I realize that we are requesting for an increase over the…

this was a unique place, Paiute Springs. You could throw a rock down in the gully where the trees were, and it would sound like an airplane taking off because there were so many birds. Well, I pictured in my mind all the time I was away…

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 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…

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…

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…