What is a hydronuclear experiment? I am quoting: Nuclear materials, either plutonium or uranium are configured with high explosives in a geometry very similar to a nuclear explosion. The amount of material and/or the geometry are chosen so…

my friend, the ranking member, the former chairman of the committee, said the only question is what kind of facility. Well, that really is not the only question. But, in fact, if that were the only question, why in the world would you want…

the proponents of sight infrastructure costs as their main argument, but this facility will produce training for 50 years. I say, what is the lowest life cycle cost of 50 years? Do we care? We should care, Mr. President.

I have stood silently by for a long time now because I have the same feeling that a lot of us have, one of desperation, despair. I was forced to think about this as a result of the statement given yesterday by the Senator from the State of…

in 1969 the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire. I repeat, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. This river was so polluted that it actually started burning. As a result of this, Members of Congress and the President decided it was time we did…

in the mid-1960's, when I first decided to seek political office, I ran for a seat on the hospital board of trustees for Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. This was not considered a political plum, nor did the race engender much public…

If the health care costs, as they relate to Medicare, are escalating 10.7 percent a year, is it not a fact that some private systems are going up even more than that?

the budget that we have just received today does some interesting things. One thing that it does without any dispute--there is no reason to debate this--is that senior citizens on an average will spend $900 per year more for health care…

That means higher insurance premiums. Does it not mean that people who have no insurance go to an emergency room; and is there any higher cost of medical care any place in the country than in an emergency room?

In fact, it was not minutes or hours or days; we spent weeks on the floor talking about the health care crisis a few months ago. I am curious; is the crisis suddenly upon us regarding Medicare? The fact of the matter is, that same crisis…

I say to my friend that the Democrats are not against tax cuts. But I think we have to have our priorities in order. Do we take $90 billion away from senior citizens? As indicated, $1 out of every $3 they have they have to spend on health…

I held a crime summit in Las Vegas which, coincidentally, had been scheduled for several months. It was the day after the Oklahoma City explosion. I met there with the chiefs of police of southern Nevada: Boulder City, Las Vegas…

I have used as an illustration some of the things that are being done on the other side of the aisle, as being--well, they remind me some of the things that go on in Las Vegas. We have in Las Vegas the greatest magicians, illusionists in…

I think we need some help from the other side of the aisle to tell us how they are doing their tricks because the fact of the matter is, a health care crisis has been upon us for a long time. Suddenly, because they are presenting a budget…

I serve as the ranking member of one of the subcommittees of the Environment and Public Works Committee, over which there is jurisdiction of the bill introduced by the Senator from Texas. I, in good faith, dealt with the chairman of the…

I oppose the amendment from the Senator from Arizona because it is premature and unnecessary. Moreover, it can have unintended effects, which might result in forcing later expenditures that would wipe out any savings he might anticipate if…

as most know, I offered an amendment on Social Security that led ultimately to the defeat of the balanced budget amendment. I am glad that we had the debate on the balanced budget amendment. I think, No. 1, it indicated that we have a…

I extend my appreciation publicly, as I have done privately on a number of occasions, for the leadership of Richard Bryan on this issue. And I say Richard Bryan, because his leadership on this issue started long before he became a Member…

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…

We should not be using those moneys, I say to my friend, those tax moneys, 12.4 percent of a person's check, for foreign aid, is that not true?

I would say, one of the misunderstandings also has been that we, those of us who supported the exemption of Social Security from the balanced budget amendment, there is a misapprehension that we did not want Social Security ever touched…

when I came to the floor this morning, the last thing I wanted to talk about was balanced budgets and Social Security. But my friend from Idaho, in effect, made the argument that I made 4 weeks ago when I offered the amendment on Social…

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 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…