These are two very brief amendments, and yet I think they are very poignant and important to the basic concept we are debating here tonight. They have been cleared on both sides of the aisle. Both the majority and the minority managers and…

the Simpson amendment to the pending legislation, the National Competitiveness Act, includes important reforms to the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. While I strongly support the continuation of the Davis-Bacon law, I do believe changes need to…

Today Senator Domenici, Senator Boren, and Senator Nickles, and I are introducing amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act that will guarantee a high level of health protection at a cost the water-rate payers of our country can afford. I…

last fall the Senate passed a crime bill that included a broad expansion of the death penalty to numerous Federal crimes. That was a mistake that I hope is not replicated soon by the House of Representatives. Last week, dissenting from the…

the idea of making the Social Security Administration an independent agency dates back to the early 1970's when Social Security's impact on fiscal policy was made more visible through the inclusion of the program in the Federal budget. In…

After many years of struggle with this question, Justice Blackmun has come to the conclusion that the death penalty can not satisfy the constitutional demands for consistency, fairness, and individualized sentencing. Justice Blackmun has…

I am talking about options. I am not talking about actions but options. Is it also true that the managers of the bill have another option? We can call up these amendments in the absence of the author, and we could expedite this by taking…

So I am correct. In other words, if patience tends to run out and the clock tends to run out and the weather begins to worsen and the contingencies they represent, we could, in effect, say third reading of this bill, closing out those…

As the Senator knows, it has been observed we operate like mushrooms, often. We tend to do our growing activity at nighttime. Yet here we are, convened to do the business of the Senate as of 10:15 this morning on this particular bill. What…

In effect, those the Senator has identified as requiring a period of time for debate--we both understand we do not know precisely how much time, but we know it is controversial enough that it will elicit debate--none of those amendments…

Would the Senator not agree that is within the context that we would be moving along with these, from the time he made that inquiry and that estimate from the leadership, and, with the exception of the Senator from Arizona [Mr. McCain], we…

We, again, have exceeded the President's rescission number. We have, again, indicated what we feel to be our imprint on this bill. Now we have to go to the House. We have to have conference with the House. And what the final bill will be…