I had not planned to speak, but I do want to put the statements of the gentleman from Michigan in context. He was one of the 14 who voted against the bill originally. There were 408 Members who supported it. Mr. Speaker, on April 4 he sent…

I can only assume that the gentleman from Maryland did not read the conference report, because I would join him, if, in fact, we were talking about creating a permanent program without a basis of analysis of a pilot program. Despite what…

I am very anxious that we proceed with the bill before us. In the meantime, I would like to just for a moment or two continue on our freshman focus on the idea of moving forward with these issues that are before the Senate and the House…

I rise this morning as the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs to join in the sentiments expressed by my colleague, Senator Murkowski, on Taiwan, and in particular on the visit of President Lee. I need not…

I would like to use our time this morning as a followup on the freshman focus that we have been carrying on for several weeks and attempt to continue. Some of my colleagues will join later in the morning and then again on Thursday. As you…

I rise this morning as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss the content of a recent interoffice electronic memo from Sally Shelton, the Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Global Programs, Bill Support and…

Members will be relieved to know that there will be others joining me during this 30 minutes, other Members from our freshman group, to continue our discussion about the agenda for the Senate, the agenda for the Republicans, and of course…

today I ask you to join me in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. On April 24, 1915, under the direction of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, a campaign of Armenian extermination began. By 1923, 1.5 million Armenians…

I do have to compliment the minority. I thought perhaps they were not learning to become the minority quite as quickly as we had hoped they would. But what we have just heard on the part of the minority is an absolute denouncement of the…

Mr. Chairman, if Members will examine the proponents of the substitute's argument, what they are saying is that we really do want Medicare select, we just want to improve it, we want to help. That would be akin to having you cross the…

Given my statutory responsibility (15 USC Sec. 634b(4)) to determine the impact of the taxes on small businesses and advise Congress, I have been asked to analyze the impact on small businesses of the "Contract With America Tax Reform Act…

let me say that the 30 minutes has been reserved for Members of the freshman class to take some time, and that will be divided among several of us. We want to talk a little bit this morning about the future--the future for America, the…

So, on a conservative estimate of $15 to $20 billion, but the other side of that coin, I would tell the gentleman, is that actions by this Government in regard to people who hold property put a burden on those private sector individuals to…

I had not planned on speaking on this amendment, but in listening to the discussion about California and somebody's re-creation of recent history about what happened in this House, I felt compelled to come down here and at least try to…

Where does the President get the money, if the majority of the Congress does not agree?

I think there is a system in which the President can move. But the President then comes to the Congress for either a declaration or for the money, or he, as he is doing now, comes for a supplemental budget. The Congress has to be involved…

I understand. This is the basis of what we are talking about. Of course, the Senator says leave it as it is. Others say we need to change it. That is what it is, whether we change or whether we do not. Many people think that there needs to…

Senator, I am not as familiar as you are with the process, but it seems to me that now there has to be approval, there has to be approval annually for the budget, there has to be approval for the President's move in terms of military…

I have, I guess--and I do not suggest I know the answers--but I have a good deal of confidence. What does it say? It says, ``* * * this article may be waived for any fiscal year in which the United States is engaged in military conflict…

Nor was I. I guess further I would say, I am not sure I am confounded by the Congress each year approving this. I do not think that is an unusual kind of thing. Do you not think the Congress represents the people----

That is what I am suggesting; that is, that is the role of Congress, and I think it is a legitimate role and one that is not unusual, one that I have perceived has been done for a number of years.

late yesterday afternoon the Office of the United States Trade Representative received a letter from Wu Yi, the PRC Minister of Trade, stating that the Chinese were prepared to resume talks in Beijing next week on the issue of…

over the weekend the administration announced its decision to impose trade sanctions beginning on February 26 on the People's Republic of China in retaliation for the latter's dismal failure in safeguarding U.S. intellectual property…

I think that is the question that most Americans ask of their Government: Can we continue to spend more than we take in? Is it morally wrong to spend more than we take in, to transfer that debt to someone in the future? I think Americans…

I rise today for a short tribute to a lady from Wyoming who passed away last week, a lady who certainly was a rare and wonderful gem, not only for Wyoming but for this country as well. She was someone that I had the great privilege of…