I rise to speak to pay tribute to our departing colleague, Paul Simon. All of us have an image of what a U.S. Senator ought to be. It will not surprise anyone that all who serve here measure up. Paul Simon is someone who clearly measures…

I must disclose at the start of this discussion that I am pro-choice. I have been pro-choice ever since I entered public life. I have been pro-choice in my voting pattern in the Senate and pro-choice in my voting pattern in the House of…

I hope they will ask themselves if they are comfortable taking $78 million of taxpayers' money to help out the big tire companies and the other special interests that will benefit by this. I hope they will ask themselves if they are…

I also want to voice a positive response to the fact that employers do provide family leave, a time to be with their family and loved ones at a time that is important, during medical emergencies. But, Mr. President, I think it would be a…

I hope Members, as they vote on this measure, will keep a couple of things in mind that I think are critical. One is this measure does not attempt to do away with the buy-America preferences that have existed in the law. It keeps those…

There are about 40 million Americans today who have gotten some student loan or grant assistance from the Federal Government to further their educations. Some 40 million Americans have gotten this, whether it is the GI bill, Perkins, or…

It is my intention that when you come down to several parties being deemed qualified and the contract not going to the one who is qualified and the lowest, then I think the public is entitled to at least an explanation. That is the…

I thank the Chair. Let me say it is my understanding that the amendment does not give anyone a chance to open up bids. All it does is merely ask for disclosure. It suggests that there ought to be a bidding process. I want to assure my…

former Senator Bob Dole has unveiled his new economic plan to the American people. He has outlined a $550 billion tax break, mostly for the wealthy, but he had not told us how he is going to pay for that $550 billion tax break. One of Bob…

I notice, reading through the amendment, it gives a special exemption for oil. Everybody is subject to this special tax except the oil companies. Why was the decision made? What is the reasoning for giving the special treatment to oil?

The other question I had--there were several others, as I went through it. I notice the distinguished Senator from North Dakota said, ``We encourage moving jobs abroad, and we ought to take that language out of the code.'' I have looked…

If I can put this in my own words, and maybe the Senator will correct me, we are not saying there is a section in the code that does that, we are saying it is simply not covered in the code?

the changes that Speaker Gingrich and Mr. Dole put into the Medicare and Medicaid bill, will go the exact opposite direction of where we wanted to go in detecting fraud, waste, and abuse, rooting it out and eliminating it. There is the…

In other words, that $46 payment, if you are especially poor, that $46 payment the government will help you with so you can qualify for Medicare.

here we go again. The same folks who brought us the Government shutdown, the two Government shutdowns earlier this year and late last year, are back. Former Senator Dole and Speaker Gingrich are bringing us a $500 billion economic package…

Medicare clearly has worked. You look at what Speaker Gingrich has said about Medicare, that he wants to see it wither on the vine, and those are his words, not mine. You look at what the next top-ranked Republican in Congress has said…

The same thing, only worse, I would add, because now the tax break mostly for the wealthy is twice the size Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Dole originally planned, which means, I guess, they will not tell us, but we have to figure it will mean twice…

There have been efforts by the gentleman from Michigan and me in the Committee on Commerce, and by the gentleman from New Jersey to deal with the fraud questions, because we can save $80 or $90 billion in the next 7 years simply by…

Last year they proposed $245 billion in tax breaks, mostly for the wealthy, and the way they wanted to pay for those tax breaks, cuts in Medicare, going right to the heart of cutting student loans, and cutting environmental programs, they…

If I recall, he said he had corrected it initially. Then a staff person said, ``Newt, come over here,'' and he explained he had not. And he ignored it and said, ``We will take care of it later.'' It has not been. Fortunately, a…

I wonder if there are other countries that have provisions like this. This, in effect, is that it taxes profits on activity outside of the United States, I take it?

Doesn't our tax law now give us the tools to go after them when they play those games with prices?

I think it is the game played sometimes with automobile manufacturers, where they take their profit overseas and overprice the automobile as it comes in here so they do not show any profit in the United States.

Think about the programs, and there are certainly Government programs that have wasted dollars and Government programs that have not worked, but think of the two programs we are talking about most today, a couple or three programs…

So, by manipulating the prices, they are avoiding recognizing profit in this country and thus avoid paying taxes in this country?