I find the idea that someone could come in and buy our vote here to be totally repugnant. This discredits our labors and only further undermines and demeans this institution. But I recognize that in the world of politics sometimes what is…

Fine, Mr. President. We will do this as rapidly as we possibly can. What we have is the buyout bill that has been back and forth between the House and Senate a number of times. I could go back and recount the dates and when we passed it…

I want to back up his views on this. We worked together a long, long time on nonproliferation matters, and we have over 148 nations now signed up around the world on the nonproliferation regime. It has not been perfect, but it has been…

I rise today to comment on a subject that I have followed closely during my years of service with the Senate Armed Services Committee--the modernization of the KC-135 tanker fleet used by all of our services. Mr. President, the successes…

Forty-nine percent of the prisoners in our States are nonviolent prisoners. They could just as well be put in low-cost facilities, whether inflatable dome structures or Quonset huts or Butler buildings, like millions of Americans have…

in the short time remaining let me bring us back to the need for the buyout bill because I think it is important. It is important to all the people in civil service, the people who really make the Government run. What has happened is…

2 days ago, the Senate accepted an amendment to S. 4, the National Competitiveness Act, offered by Senator Nickles and entitled the ``Economic and Employment Impact Act.'' This amendment would require the Congressional Budget Office [CBO]…

Let me recount a bit of the history of this matter. S. 1535, the Federal Work Force Restructuring Act, was first introduced on October 7 last year. On October 19, the Governmental Affairs Committee, which I chair, held a hearing on S…

The buyout bill, which is the basic bill we are talking about here, is very important. It has a great deal of urgency. We are beginning to run out of our available time window on this legislation as far as having it do any good and do what…

I submit we are into a different day now. The new administration has, in fact, put out an Executive order, which I am sure the distinguished Senator is aware of, cost-benefit analysis. It does not go to the smaller contracts, that is true…

I am not looking for any excuse at all. I am the last guy in the world here who is going to have an excuse for anything like regulatory reform. But I want to do it right. I do not want to do it here on a bill it should not be on to begin…