I rise today to announce to my Senate colleagues, as has been my custom each week during this session of the 103d Congress, that during the last 3 weeks, 60 people were killed by gunshots in New York City, bringing the 1994 total to 304.

I want commend the distinguished Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Bradley] for bringing to the Senate's attention the critical importance of tax expenditures in deliberations over the Federal budget. The Senator is quite correct that tax…

it is now 8 months since the Base Closure and Realignment Commission overruled the recommendations of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, and its own staff and elected to close Plattsburgh Air Force Base and expand McGuire Air Force…

I rise to state that the Senate is about to take the first vote of this Congress on the issue of health care reform, because if the amendment of my friend from Mississippi should be adopted, we will be instructed to take some $20 billion…

I wish simply to say, Mr. President, as I had occasion to say earlier today, that the Nunn-Domenici amendment involves a fateful decision by this body as to the future of health care reform. It would transfer so much in the way of…

I rise, as I have done each week during this session of the 103d Congress, to announce to the Senate that during this past week, 25 people were killed in New York City by gunshot.

On March 11, good news was heard from Moscow. All charges were dropped against a courageous Russian scientist, Dr. Vil Marzayanov who, 2 years ago in a Moscow News article, revealed to the world that the Soviet Union had secretly developed…

I rise to report on the terrible toll taken by gun violence in New York City. I regret to inform the Senate that 30 persons were killed by gunshot this past week in New York City, bringing the total this year to 219.

it is with great pleasure that I rise today to recognize the achievements of one of America's most brilliant theologians, Michael Novak. On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Novak was awarded the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, an…

not for the first time do I rise on the Senate floor to agree with the distinguished Senator from Arizona on this matter. In October 1993, we had the same issue before us. He is right. The earnings test for a person 65 to 69 is an obsolete…

I am not surprised. The administrative law judges have been appalled by the long waits for disability, and then a $20,000 check finally comes out. In the southern district of New York, at one point, I tell my friend Senator Packwood, who…

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.

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?

this is a momentous act. We will now go to conference with the House which has on one occasion passed this measure unanimously, as we have just done, and we hope to see a new era in Social Security in consequence. We thank the cooperation…

we have had a good debate, the first of its kind on the Senate floor concerning an independent agency for the Social Security Administration. We have had not a word of opposition heard, just as in our Finance Committee, as my friend…

May I just thank the Senator, because we can solve this, and if he keeps at it we will. I just hope that when May comes we have the head of an independent Social Security Administration saying we are going to take this on, do it. We want…

The disability benefit program was put in place under President Eisenhower with a payroll contribution and a trust fund. That trust fund will be exhausted next year, and we will have to move some of the surplus from the old age and…

I will be glad to argue all day and all night that the Congress of the United States should be placed under the same laws concerning their retirement as American citizens are. If anyone disagrees with that, I would be more than happy to…

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.

If they will give it to me, I will get them a copy of their chart. So you will know at least that you will continue to get your retirement; you will know that you are covered for disability benefits. Not everyone knows that. You do know…

May I ask you this. I am not a lawyer, but I do know you are not supposed to ask a question to which you do not know the answer. Did the Social Security Administration come to you with this question?

Washington is a place that pays a lot of attention to polls. And not every poll is of great interest. But I might say that as I was speaking earlier, and as Senator Packwood was speaking, I noted that the very able young professional…

I strongly support S. 1560 and feel it is an important measure that will help protect the Social Security Administration's fiscal integrity and program effectiveness. I am concerned that the newly independent agency may lead to a request…

Yes, I would agree with the Senator from Florida. The Social Security Administration is in a unique position to undertake such a study of retirement planning services. This study would certainly be consistent with the mission of the Social…

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