Don Nickles

Just to inform my colleague from Minnesota, that current law is a 26-week State program and a 13-week Federal program, with some high unemployment States getting an additional 13 weeks. You are trying to modify the original 13 weeks and…

I believe the trigger is different from the one in the early 1990s. The fact is, if you want to help people, consider a straight extension of the program we have in current law.

may I ask the sponsor of the bill, doesn't this, in effect, provide for a 26-week extension of Federal unemployment compensation instead of 13 weeks?

I have heard a couple of speeches by our Democrat colleagues that are basically saying the entire fault of the economy is that of President Bush. I just have a little different view and wish to share the view somewhat to balance the…

Mr. President, I wish to respond to a couple of the statements made by the junior Senator from Minnesota. I don't think they are actually correct in categorizing what happened in 1998. I believe I heard him say then we were very…

I appreciate the gracious remarks of my colleague from Nevada. On the bill presented to the Senate last week, it has not been marked up in the committee, has not been reported out of committee. We have a preliminary analysis by the…

So the Senator's bill permits individuals who have exhausted their unemployment compensation, and then may have subsequently found a job, to be counted in the unemployment figures, according to this Adjusted Insured Unemployment Rate…

I likewise would like to compliment my colleague, Senator Warner, because he has been leading the debate, certainly on this side of the aisle, but, frankly, on both sides of the aisle. Senator Warner has carried the debate on this side…

I compliment the Senator for his leadership on this. I have actually read the resolution. I think it is a very good product, bipartisan, due in large part to the Senator's leadership. I remember working with him on the 1991 resolution, as…

I wish to speak on this resolution. First, I compliment my friend and colleague, the Senator from Florida, Mr. Nelson, for his speech and for his tenacity in trying to remind everyone about the condition of Naval Aviator Speicher. I think…

Later in 1998, the U.N. weapons inspectors were kicked out of Iraq. We bombed them. Then nothing happened. Since 1998, for the last 4 years, we haven't had any weapons inspectors in Iraq. They have done exactly as President Clinton…

I will be happy to urge my friends and colleagues in the House to pass more appropriations bills, but frankly, they are reticent to do so because the Senate is working off much different numbers than the House. Always before, when we…

I appreciate my colleagues's remarks. He mentioned 60 as a magic number. At this point, 100 is the magic number. So it takes a lot of bipartisan work and cooperation to get things done because right now we have to do a lot of legislation…

the bill was introduced, I believe, on Monday. It was printed in the Record, I believe, on Tuesday or Wednesday. Many of us--most all Senators, including most on the Finance Committee--have not had a chance to look at the bill. I don't…

I happen to be proud of the fact the Senate has bipartisan support for this resolution. The President has worked hard on it, as well as Senator Lieberman, Senator Warner, Senator McCain, Senator Bayh, and others. I compliment them for…

I appreciate that. I believe I heard one or two Senators say Secretary Thompson supports this bill. It is my understanding that that is not the case. Secretary Thompson may support the thrust of it. I understand he supports the regulation…

Today is October 2, the second day of the new fiscal year, and this Congress has not passed any appropriations bills. We have passed a continuing resolution that takes us to next Friday, and I guess we will pass another one that takes us…

I don't think asking a couple of questions is too much to ask. Is this a clean 13-week extension in unemployment compensation?

I am embarrassed that we have been on two bills for 4 weeks and we have made so little progress. We have spent the entire month of September, and the end of the fiscal year is next month, and we haven't passed one appropriations bill this…

I will be happy to work with him on trying to schedule things that are convenient for all colleagues. I rise today to make a few comments I really wish I did not have to make. Yesterday, the majority leader of the Senate made a very…

I read the President's comments. You only read one line. I read three paragraphs--he never said, ``The Democrats in the Senate are not interested in national security.'' That was the maddening quote. He never said it--never said it. Yet it…

I want to help restore the dignity and integrity of Senate debate. I want to help repair some of the damage that might have been done between the legislative branch and the executive branch. It is critically important. I say this mindful…

I will just repeat to my colleague, you may find a quote from the RNC, and I am sure we could finds things from the Democratic National Committee to be quite partisan. What I stated was that the President did not state what was alluded to…

If one wanted to get drought aid to farmers, would it make sense, since that has been agreed to in the underlying bill, to have a vote on the Craig amendment, and it could be an up-or-down vote or a motion to table, dispose of the Craig…

If people want to pass this bill, the way to pass the bill is to do it the way Senator Reid and I used to manage the bill, and that is to vote. We get paid to vote. For whatever reason, some people are afraid to vote on the Craig…