Don Nickles

I may be off base, but I am reading the amendment, and it says: . . . State educational agency, may deny equal access or a fair opportunity to meet after school in a designated open forum to any youth group, including the Boy Scouts of…

To answer my colleague's question, yes, the $600 applies to all taxpayers. The percent reduction did not happen for upper income taxpayers. The fact is they only get 1 point reduction in taxes in the first 4 years of this bill, and that is…

I think this can be a very productive month. This can be a month that we finish the budget and the tax bill, and we can finish the education bill. It is a month in which we can accomplish a lot for the American people that will make a…

I inform my colleagues that the Bennett amendment takes the two tax accelerations that the Senator from Illinois has in his first 2 years. If I am correct, the Senator has an additional tax increase of $31 billion in 2002 and $11 billion…

I have great confidence that when she addresses this, whether she uses the rulemaking process or uses other tools in the Secretary's office to address work-related injuries, including ergonomics, it will be substantially different than…

I might remind my colleagues, 8 years ago every Clinton nominee was confirmed by January 22, unanimously, by voice--every single one. The only one that was not was the Attorney General, and the reason for that was that the Clinton…

I also wish to bring to the attention of my colleagues the fact we had significant debate on this last night. Senator Sessions did an outstanding job in making his presentation. I encourage colleagues to review his statements and encourage…

I am critical of the administration for not vetoing Security Council Resolution 1322, which passed the Security Council on October 7. We could have vetoed this resolution. It was a biased resolution. It was an unbalanced resolution, a…

I don't know where the Senator got his chart, but I am telling him that factually any couple that made $52,000 under the bill we passed yesterday, the Republican bill, with 8 or 9 Democrats who voted with you, would get tax relief…

I had printed in the Record the joint tax statement that had the 5-year cost at $56 billion and had the 10-year cost at $56 billion, my point being we ought to be accurate. For some people to imply the bill we passed was $248 is factually…

The announcement the majority leader just made that our friend and colleague, Paul Coverdell, passed away at 6:10 p.m. today is a very sad statement. Paul Coverdell was an outstanding Senator from the State of Georgia. This is Georgia's…

I look at my colleague's amendment, and he says for health care we will make it a tax credit. That means it is more valuable than wages; that means it is more valuable than any other expenditure for an employer. We passed several tax…

The President did this first in September of 1996 prior to the election... a massive land grab, power mineral grab--you name it--by the President of the United States for a photo op for election purposes that, in my opinion, may have been…

If you are making it a refundable credit, you are making this more of a priority than health care. You are saying this is a more important item than food, in some cases, because you are having the Federal Government write a check to pay…

If it is a refundable credit, we have now turned a tax cut into a spending bill, I would assume spending billions of dollars. Again, we haven't had a chance to review the amendment. We haven't had it scored. We will review it. We will find…

I personally haven't agreed with the process under which we are considering this bill. I compliment the managers for their patience. The hour is late. I think we still have two or three other amendments to consider. I hope we can finish…

I have a list of amendments on prescription drugs, long-term health care, Medicare, retirement--in other words, a lot of things on the Democrats' agenda that have not been accomplished. I said relevant amendments pertaining to the death…

The facts are, the cost over 10 years, which is the most we ever use, is $104 billion. I heard them say it is $750 billion. I do not know from where they are grabbing these figures. If we use that kind of analogy, it would be fun to see…

The total coverage is, on scope, every single employer-sponsored plan in America would have the right to internal-external appeals.

I hope my colleagues vote no. If the Senator from Massachusetts wants to support minimum wage, he should support the unanimous consent request Majority Leader Lott has made twice, saying let's break it apart from bankruptcy and go to…

This is the same amendment we passed in November. This is an amendment that says we should have 100 percent deductibility for self-employed individuals. Right now they only get 60 percent. This is an amendment that says we should give an…

We voted on this amendment in November. It didn't pass. What we did pass on November 9 was the Domenici amendment. It passed 54-44. It was an amendment that would increase the minimum wage not over 13 months, as proposed by Senator…

Another area where I have seen FDA become very involved in the political arena deals with the abortion drug RU- 486. I have a press release that is dated May 16, 1994. The headline is: ``Roussel Uclaf Donates U.S. Patent Rights for RU-486…

I compliment him for his 24 years of service in the Senate. Anyone that spends almost a quarter of a century of service in the Senate, I think, is to be complimented. I compliment him for his leadership and for his representation of the…

I mentioned that we have had a lot of cooperation and effort on behalf of a lot of Senators to help make this bill a reality and hopefully to soon become law. Principal among those is Senator Lieberman from Connecticut, who is not just a…