I wanted to say to my friend, he was present, is it not true, one day last week prior to the vote when we were in an office in the Dirksen Building and we called in a constitutional law expert to go over once again the fact that section 7…

last year, I offered a balanced budget amendment which excluded Social Security from the budget. When this body again considered a balanced budget amendment 4 or 5 weeks ago I offered an amendment that excluded Social Security. After it…

I spent a lot of time yesterday talking about honoring honesty. It occurred to me, as I was driving home last night, that no group better exemplifies those virtues than the generation now most dependent on the solvency of Social…

I refer at this time to a statement that is on this chart behind me from the majority leader of the other body in the House of Representatives, the Honorable Richard Armey. He said: We have the serious business of passing a balanced budget…

I think what has gone on during the last week or so... has been very constructive. We have had some very difficult debates on coverage, unfunded mandates, and now this balanced budget amendment. But I think these debates have been very…

I want to spread across this record one reason this debate has been so fruitful is that during the unfunded mandates debate, the Senator from Iowa offered a sense-of-the-Senate resolution to exclude Social Security from the balanced budget…

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…

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.

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?

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…

In 1935, Social Security passed. It passed, Madam President, because the American people wanted it to pass. It was really at that time, perhaps, an experiment. We did not know if it really worked, but it did work. I believe we have heard a…

Mr. President, this is a very simple amendment. It really is. It will take some time during the next few days to talk about this amendment. But it is an amendment to determine what we are going to do about Social Security. In effect, this…

I take this opportunity to address the Senate about the amendment we hope to offer in the immediate future. That is the amendment regarding the exclusion of Social Security from the balanced budget amendment. Mr. President, I believe that…

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…

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…

my friend from North Dakota asked two questions. Is there a plan? I have to answer that, yes, I think there is a plan, and it is not one that people who are now depending on Social Security would like. I think the plan is to raid the…

we have been focused in the last 6 months on the O.J. Simpson trial, and one of the first mistakes made in that case by one of the defense lawyers was when the defense lawyer allowed O.J. Simpson to give a long statement to law…

probably the most famous bank robber of all time was a man by the name of Willie Sutton. After Willie Sutton got out of prison, after having spent many, many years there, he was asked why he robbed banks. He said, ``Because that's where…

approximately 1 year ago, on February 23, 1994, Senator Warner remarked for this Record that the University of Virginia soccer team had reached an athletic pinnacle never before achieved: three successive NCAA national championships. I…

I will speak briefly on the sense-of-the-Senate resolution offered to this body. I do it because last year I offered an amendment to the balanced budget amendment that would have exempted Social Security. I did not prevail at that time…

I represent a State that is very large in area but small in numbers of people. The State of Nevada until recent years was a State that had very, very few people. We have had rapid growth in southern Nevada in recent years, and now we have…

if we had to pick winners and losers in the health care debate, the winner clearly is the health insurance industry. They set out to confuse and frighten the American public, and they did that. I have to tell them that I think they did a…

I want to take a few minutes to thank my colleagues for their resounding support of this lead reduction legislation. It is extremely important legislation for the country. There are many people I want to thank for helping this bill pass…

this modification consists of seven components. The changes to the original bill have been discussed on both sides of the aisle, and it is my understanding there is agreement to accept this modifying language. However, for Members who are…

the last item that I want to discuss deals with the new battery recycling provisions. Senator Lautenberg introduced S. 1949, along with myself, Senators Lieberman, Faircloth, and Senator Graham. This has been incorporated in the…