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…

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…

The fact of the matter is that my good friend from Arkansas could not go out and get a bunch of people together to raise money and go in and do this. We are talking about investments of hundreds of millions of dollars. For example, near my…

Scapegoating immigrants have no place in a just and moral society. And, it certainly should not find shelter and life in a country that prides itself on being a nation of immigrants. The ugly anti-immigrant sentiments, which are often…

last Monday the Washington Post newspaper ran an insightful editorial that was entitled ``On Not Blaming Immigrants First.'' The editorial rightly admonished those involved in the immigration debate to avoid the pitfalls made earlier when…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…