over the Fourth of July, I guess our break was taken a little bit differently. Due to circumstances of a personal matter in both my wife's family and my family, we did not get to spend as much time in our home State of Montana as we would…

Mr. President, I am baffled after coming off this vacation that I can be sitting in a committee hearing with CEO's and president's of companies like Netscape, like Microsoft; like all of the companies that have come to be, within the last…

I understand the Senator's interest in this matter and I share his admiration for Governor O'Callaghan. What he suggests is entirely appropriate and fitting. I would point out, to my ranking member, that there is no precedent in a military…

I happen to look at it from the bottom up. I have been pretty much one of those people at the working end of the American spectrum, I guess. I came up the hard way. You know, for once, I had an idea that this year maybe common sense would…

I stand today to support many of the goals of the Chafee-Breaux amendment to the Budget Act of 1997, but to voice concern regarding how to pay for those goals. On the top of the list of essential tax reforms that this amendment addresses…

this Chamber has been treading a difficult path in the last year. We want a balanced budget in the year 2002. We want a balanced budget for the next generation. I believe that as we set the budget for the coming years, we can find plenty…

I rise today with America on my mind to applaud our favorite Republican Senators and Republican Congressmen who have worked so diligently in trying to present a budget that stays in balance and would balance the budget in 6 years and still…

Balancing the budget, without raising taxes, and deals also with Federal spending. You know, spending money, especially other people's money, is sort of like alcoholism. A fellow asked, ``Does he have a drinking problem?'' And he says…

So this morning, Mr. President, I ask that we take a long look at the total picture of families and what makes them tick. How do we secure their wages? How do we give them some permanence, and how do we contribute to a better life for…

I rise today to celebrate tax freedom day. The average American will work 128 days this year to pay for the Federal, State, and local taxes and sets a new record high for this country at 38.2 percent of his or her yearly income. Now, think…

3 years ago, President Clinton raised America's taxes in the misguided effort to reduce the Federal budget deficit. He claimed that it was time for the rich to ``pay their fair share,'' but as usual, the middle class felt the brunt of his…

I have Americans on my mind today, and I am concerned that maybe some of us are not listening, especially the President and the Democrats, to America as closely as they should. One stark realization, when I was home over the Easter break a…

I recently became a co-sponsor of S. 295, the Teamwork for Employers and Management Act, a bill that is scheduled for markup today in the Labor Committee and which the Small Business Committee, on which I sit, will consider tomorrow. This…

an important bill was recently reported out of the Senate Labor Committee and I hope it will make its way to the Senate floor quickly. This is a bill that was designed with not only children in mind--and that is foremost--but with the…

The Health Care Financing Administration has been reviewing telemedicine demonstration projects across the country. They have been studying them about 2 years now. They are analyzing the cost effectiveness of providing health services via…

I rise today to echo what is probably on the mind of everybody who ever attended school at the University of Montana, and every Grizzlies fan in my home State. Coach Don Read, the football coach of the last 10 or 11 years, is retiring. He…

I rise to offer an amendment regarding the Lost Creek Land Exchange Act of 1996. This amendment is important for the acquisition of the Lost Creek area of Montana for the public. I want to emphasize that this amendment is a starting point…

Let us just talk about it from an environmental standpoint. Basically, what the amendment of my friends from Arkansas and Vermont does, or the amendments do, is throws us right back into this old class warfare again, the "haves" and the…

We just completed debate on the salvage timber, and the package offered by Senator Bingaman is, at best, described as yet another example of a mindset that prevails here in Washington, DC. Yesterday, I stated in this body that in order to…

I thank my friends from New Mexico for the leadership they have shown on this issue. It is a wonderful day to start the debate on this particular issue, the first day of spring. Even though the weatherman has not chosen to cooperate…

we have already debated the merits of the second-degree amendment, which establishes the commission to study the reorganization or the probable reorganization of the courts of appeals across this Nation. But the real emphasis should be…

I thank the Chair very much, and I thank the leader on this. Here we go again, talking about health of the forests, talking about the elimination of jobs in research, when more research is needed, and talking about a situation that existed…

We will hope for better times in the cattle business. The Senator from Nebraska knows that we have been through these times before, and we will go through this one. I will be honest with you. I have a hard time, I say to the Senator from…

I think my friend from Nevada understands the problems small business is going through right now and the margin they have to worry about. This gives them a great deal of flexibility. But it also allows Congress to take a look to see how…

I helped craft this legislation, and if there is one thing that we hear going down the road every day from the people who live in my State of Montana it is the way we write our rules and regulations here in Washington. This regulatory…