Daniel Moynihan

As my friend knows, the bonds that Treasury issues to the Social Security Administration have a special provision; they can never sell below par, as the Senator well knows.

Would the Senator care to estimate the last time an administrator of the Social Security Administration had a meeting with the President in the Oval Office on the business of the Social Security Administration? Twenty years?

There ought to be a rule. There are rules but they ought to be followed for purposes of enforcement of the law and not harassment of individual employers.

I have never ceased to honor the patriotism with which he put forward fiscal solvency first. Thank you, Mr. President.

I have to agree, and I regretfully agree, part of the agreement by which Alexander Hamilton arranged for the Federal Government to assume the Revolutionary War debt of the States, which he did--a magnificent enterprise--the only portrait…

May I say, Alexander Hamilton was not present in Philadelphia when the Constitution was decided.

Simply to say I thank the Senator for the factual way in which he responded to our facts, the Office of Management and Budget. I congratulate the Senator, as I always do, on a civil discussion here. We have large issues to be decided. I…

Yes. We have crossed that point. Does that mean nothing? I think there is a leakage of reality here. Generations hence, there may be people looking back at us thinking how right the Senator from Nebraska has been. It took 1 week in the…

I will rise simply to suggest that any dealings, any treatment of tax matters on an appropriation bill is not appropriate. ... we have now reached a point where we import the majority of the oil we consume.

I rise most emphatically to support the Senator from Maryland in this regard. I spoke yesterday on the matter. All this amendment would provide is a gratuitous affront to countries, particularly in the Near East, Morocco, Egypt, which are…

There is still a large number of countries in the world which have a reflexive anti-Americanism which they acquired, one, in the cold war; or, two, in an early, independent, anticolonial mode that carried over somehow to the United States…