section 389 comes as a result of many hours of negotiations involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and various Members of Congress. The language agreed to by the…

Three years ago the insurance industry spent $100 million to kill comprehensive health care reform. How many of these companies are ominously silent on this Gingrich special interest health care bill? One politically active insurance…

I rise today with several of my distinguished colleagues, including Senator Paul Simon, Senator Chuck Grassley, and Senator Max Baucus, to introduce a historic measure, a bill to permanently restore nondiscriminatory treatment to the…

Scott Paper lays off 11,000 workers; their top executive gets millions of dollars in stock options. AT&T lays off 40,000 employees; its top management gets huge bonuses. Revco Drugstore in Twinsburg, OH, lays off 1,100 people; 4 of their…

earlier this week I spoke in Wadsworth, OH, at the Wadsworth public library, to a group of young people and their parents who are looking in the next couple of years to attend college. It was mostly made up of sophomores and juniors in…

it is clear that the Gingrich revolution is over. As Members of Congress returned finally for work this week, all of us have been hearing from voters in our district, Republicans and Democrats alike, that the voters are rejecting the…

I believe we have worked this amendment out. I am proposing to alter the amendment by dropping the section dealing with BLM, section (c), applying it only to the Secretary of Agriculture, and in section (e), dropping any reference to a…

I ask Members of the Chamber to think how they would feel if they represented California and the Federal Government said that the drinking supply crosses the Federal highway and goes into San Francisco, and we are going to cut off the…

Mr. President, to be brief, the situation arises out of a rather difficult circumstance that involved what I believe is a maverick regional forester. The situation is this: Colorado has about 37 percent of its State owned by the Federal…

I rise to offer a bill to protect municipal securities investors. The Securities Act of 1933, and the Exchange Act of 1934 were drafted in response to the stock market crash of 1929. Congress passed the 1933 and 1934 acts to prevent fraud…

Yesterday for the first time in 34 years, voters in Oregon elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. Despite being outspent over 3 to 1 and largely from Washington special interest money, Democrat Ron Wyden was elected to replace Republican…

a lot of us in this institution are troubled by the threats to force the Nation into default, the comments made throughout the year by Speaker Gingrich and the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Armey, majority leader, that if they do not get their…

my friend from Ohio is actually my mother's Congressman, but she taught me a long time ago that I should take care of a problem when it is there. I do not think that the kind of back-room deals that were made in this bill with lobbyists…

One day the House leadership says it will not force the United States into default. The next day the House leadership says it might force the United States into default. The majority leader says yes; the budget chairman says no. Mr…

2 days ago the American Medical Association cut a back room deal with Speaker Gingrich for them for $15 billion out of the Medicare fund because the AMA contributes $1 million to Republican political campaigns. Yesterday an elderly woman…

I want to add my voice of support for the modification. We are all very wary of having Congress intervene in the middle of the adjudicatory action by the FCC. I think all Members are aware that there is a great deal of money available in…

Coloradans were devastated to learn that the Colorado Buffaloes had no chance whatever to win our football game this weekend with Oklahoma. Early in the week the Oklahoma Coach Schnellenberger said, referring to our Colorado team, "Our…

late last week the Committee on Commerce passed the Gingrich Medicaid plan. There were no hearings on this bill similar to the restricted small number of hearings, one hearing in fact, on Medicare. There were no hearings on the Gingrich…

I will ask the Senator from Arizona, he has indicated his amendment will have a positive revenue impact, save millions of dollars. Has the amendment been reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office? And what is their estimate of how much…

today I rise to voice my dismay at the ongoing assault taking place on some of the most important educational programs in this country. Student loans are under attack by Republican budget cutters who want to give the wealthy a huge tax…

They can if it is a private company. But they cannot with regard to a city or State job.

It simply calls for the amount that is block granted under this bill to be spent in a manner in accordance with the laws and procedures for expenditures of the States' own revenues. That may not sound like a revolutionary or even…

As we give to the States an enormous grant of new authority and new responsibility, an ability literally to appropriate the funds and allocate the funds that have been taken by the Federal Government, I think it is incumbent upon us to…

Many of us were hopeful that admonition for a republican form of government meant just that. But unfortunately, apparently it was not.

My understanding is--and perhaps Members will correct me if I am wrong--in that amendment, they do not fully change that prohibition. On its face the amendment appears to repeal the prohibition, but it in fact continues it in a more subtle…