Don Nickles

clearly, the American people believe that Washington has too much control over their everyday lives. They attribute much of this to a Federal bureaucracy that has grown out of control over the last several decades. Today, the Senate will…

Yes, my colleague is correct. If any Federal agency issues what the Congressional Review Act defines as ``major'' rules, those rules would not be allowed to go into effect for at least 60 calendar days. However, I advise my colleague that…

I rise in opposition to some of the statements that were made by our colleagues from Massachusetts, who said we should increase the minimum wage. I will make a couple of editorial comments because I do not know that we need to debate it at…

this is an amendment on which Senator Reid, myself, and many others in the Senate, including Senator Hutchison, Senator Bond, Senator Bumpers, have had a lot of input. We worked on it a lot and actually passed this amendment through the…

first, I want to compliment my colleague, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, Senator Bond, for his leadership, as well as that of Senator Bumpers. It is great to see two people work together and push legislation that will be a…

I wish to compliment my friend and colleague, Senator Hatfield, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, for his statement. I hope the administration was listening. I just jotted down a few of the figures that Senator Hatfield alluded to…

I rise on the floor this evening because I want to compliment Senator Bond from Missouri, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, and also Senator Bumpers from Arkansas for the legislation they reported out which is now pending, or…

I first want to compliment the managers of the farm bill for their hard work in crafting legislation which reforms our Nation's agriculture policies. No longer will the Government tell farmers which crops to plant and no longer will the…

first, I compliment my friend and colleague from Pennsylvania for his leadership, and I just want to make a couple of general comments. I, for one, would like to see us pass the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill. We…

I ask my colleague from Pennsylvania, is it not correct that the House has finished their business, and if we amend this, we jeopardize--or have the possibility of having another Government shutdown because of this amendment?

It is with sadness today that I note the passing of an Oklahoman, former Congressman Mike Synar, who died yesterday, Tuesday. He lost a courageous battle to cancer, which he had been fighting for several months. If anyone knew Mike Synar…

In looking at VA-HUD, and if we are not able to break this impasse soon, I tell my colleague from Maryland that it is my hope that we will take up--maybe we cannot pass--the HUD bill. Maybe there is a dispute. But we ought to be able to…

But these are minuscule problems. This is no reason to shut down the Interior Department, national parks, Forest Service and so on, and everything else that is covered by this bill, Indian Health Services--you name it. So, let us try to…

But we should take care of veterans and people who are working in veterans hospitals. They should be paid. They should not be furloughed. And we can solve that problem. I am hopeful before very long we will pass the VA-HUD bill, and let us…

So the President is directly responsible for putting hundreds of thousands of people--who were impacted because he vetoed the bills. That was his right to do so. But for him to come back and say that was all Congress' fault I think was…

I just happen to be aware of the fact the President vetoed the Interior bill. The President is the one who shut down the parks. The President is the one who did not make it possible for the parks to be opened. If he had signed the bill…

As my colleague is aware, the National Weather Service has been undergoing a complete modernization and restructuring to prepare it to give even better service as the Nation enters the next century. With two thirds of this modernization…

I urge our colleagues to vote to proceed to this appropriations bill. I cannot recall--and it may be that we have done it--somebody objecting to a motion to proceed to an appropriations bill. Maybe a couple years ago in dealing with an…

I do not doubt--as a matter of fact, I think I know probably almost as well as anybody on this floor--that we have very significant problems in the Indian community. Welfare is part of it. It may be part of the problem. I am not sure that…

Illegitimacy has been exploding in this country, and, as a result, we have increased crime, we have increased welfare. We need to break that cycle. The present system is we subsidize illegitimacy, the more children born out of wedlock the…

Mr. President, as the Senator from South Dakota points out, there are more poor Indians in America than reflected in the national average. The Senator's amendment calls for a 3-percent set-aside, even in States where there is no Indian…

with some reluctance, I rise in opposition to the amendment of my friend and colleague, Senator Domenici. First, let me make sure everyone is clear in what we have in the Dole amendment. The Dole language does not tie the hands of…

first I would like to compliment my colleague and friend from Iowa for his work on AmeriCorps. I hope that the American people realize, according to the General Accounting Office, that the cost per beneficiary is $27,000. The Senator from…

You just mandate that the States after 5 years would have to provide a voucher program to provide assistance even though we do not give them any money?

while my colleague from California is here, I have not had a chance to totally review her second amendment. I am very interested in this amendment. It is a tough amendment. If I understand it correctly, if my colleague from California will…