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…

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…

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

Mr. President, I come to the floor directly from a hearing of the Committee on Finance at which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, our former colleague from the House, the very able Leon Panetta, presented the President's…

I, too, rise in support of the nomination of Strobe Talbott to be Deputy Secretary of State. I would like to emphasize just one aspect of his work, which is a little bit apart from the comment of my distinguished friend from New Jersey…

In that same article he went on to criticize President Reagan for failing to understand the significance of the Soviet's economic plight. He said: Reagan has frequently stressed the intramural weakness in the Soviet empire. Yet, strangely…

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.

last week, I delivered my first weekly report to the Senate on the number of homicides by gunshot in New York City. I rise again today to announce that last week, there were 23 such homicides in the city of New York. Mr. President, we are…

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…

the Government of India, which has provided asylum this whole generation to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans, the Government of India which stands alone as a democracy in South Asia with great trials; do this to India? Slap Egypt in the…

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…

I rise to oppose the amendment to withhold U.S. contributions to the United Nations offered by my colleague from South Dakota, on the grounds that it violates the solemn treaty obligations of the United States. Certainly, the United…