Don Nickles

the essence of this amendment, I tell my colleagues, is it says that we allow the money to go in for an additional amount for disaster relief, $1.6 billion to remain available until expended, period. What I am deleting is the emergency…

Yesterday Senator Gramm had an amendment that said let's fund the 1998 emergencies and we will call it an emergency; we don't have to have an offset. That was the underlying bill. The underlying bill had money for defense, money for Iraq…

I think that is fine. I think that is great, because I happen to believe in State control of insurance instead of the Federal Government. States are trying to comply. They are in the process of complying. The State of Oklahoma can probably…

I was. I put 100 percent of my thrift plan in, and it made a 40 percent return. For the S&P index for those months, which included September 30, it was a 34 percent rate of return, a phenomenal rate of return. It was a lot less for…

I thank and compliment Senator Dodd of Connecticut because he likewise was working on a resolution. This resolution was an effort by several of us who felt we needed to express condemnation towards the outrageous behavior of Mr. Milosevic…

I certainly want to sponsor and echo the comments that they made that we need to reform Social Security and we need to move Social Security away from a pay-go system into a funded system, a capitalized system, a system that has an…

this resolution is a bipartisan resolution which several of us have worked on for the last few days. I thank my friends and colleagues, particularly Senator Lieberman, who worked on this, Senator Levin, Senator Biden, and other colleagues…

I also compliment my colleague, Senator Warner from Virginia, for his leadership on this. Senator Baucus, Senator Graham, Senator Byrd, Senator Chafee--a lot of people--worked a long time on this bill. I hope we can finish this bill today…

I want to speak today on the Women's Health Research and Prevention Amendments of 1998 introduced by my colleagues Senator Frist and Majority Leader Lott. This bill would amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend certain…

recent Congressional oversight of the Internal Revenue Service has revealed an agency which has virtually limitless power to enforce the tax code. One aspect of this power is the ability of the IRS to use its summons authority to force…

I think a fundamental principle should be agreed upon at the outset, and that principle is this: No American should be compelled to contribute to a campaign against their will. No American. It is a fundamental principle. We want to…

I want to make some statements dealing with health care. There has been a lot of discussion on health care and improving the quality of health care. Some of our colleagues have introduced legislation dealing with the quality of health…

I rise today to make a couple of observations. One is that it is very apparent that there is a concerted attack on Kenneth Starr, the court-appointed independent counsel investigating several serious allegations against the Clinton…

as we move toward adjournment in the first session of the 105th Congress, I want to take a couple of minutes to look ahead at one of the real big challenges that we have next year. That issue is tobacco and the so-called global tobacco…

I think we can make it better. Chairman Roth mentioned a couple things we can do. We had good hearings. Actually, the hearings that promulgated a lot of the IRS reforms happened in the Senate, not in the House. Our House colleagues, as the…

I also want to make a comment concerning Senator Bond, and the outstanding work he has done in the Environment and Public Works Committee to pass the highway bill. We need to pass one this year. The Senator from Missouri has been working…

I think Senator Kerrey's assessment of the House-passed language is correct. It is good language. But I certainly agree with the chairman of the Finance Committee. We had outstanding hearings conducted in a very fair, bipartisan way that…

today, I am introducing the Candy Lake Land Conveyance Act of 1997. The purpose of this legislation is to direct the Secretary of the Army to convey lands acquired for the Candy Lake project in Osage County, OK, back to the original…

Mr. President, just a few general comments on campaign reform. Everybody says, ``Well, now we change the law. It's vitally important for us to change the law.'' I think it is more important, and maybe the best campaign reform that we could…

on behalf of myself and the cosponsor of this legislation, Senator Inhofe, the legislation we passed today, S. 871, the Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997, will create a permanent Memorial to commemorate the national tragedy…

Members of this Chamber are well aware of the national debate on the question of the Food and Drug Administration's jurisdiction to regulate tobacco and tobacco products. To highlight the scope of this debate, I want to point out that this…

I have never commented on that. But I don't know that I could consider success that they have 15,000 fewer workers today after the strike than they had before the strike. I know that some people characterize it. But I will tell my…

the amendment that I have before the Senate, cosponsored by myself, Senator Jeffords, and Senator Craig basically would say that the taxpayers would not have to pay for a subsequent Teamsters election. The last one cost $22 million, and…

To outline just a little bit, the Department of Education has 307 education programs and spends a little over $59 billion. The Department of Health and Human Services has 172 Federal education programs, that costs $8.6 billion. The…

The amendment that we passed requires the Social Security Administration to include the employee contributions as well as employer contributions on the PEBES. Right now, when those statements are compiled, they show employee contributions…