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Mr. President, the United States is the only industrialized nation that lacks a comprehensive system to help its youth acquire the ability, knowledge, skills, and the information about labor market necessary to make an effective transition…
earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend an event at which my good friend, Mary Woodard Lasker, served as honorary chairperson. Although she was not present in body, her vision and strength were felt in every corner of the room…
let me give you an illustration. We have, as I say, in Harney County 6 million acres, of which 5 million approximately are in public ownership, Federal ownership. The private land in Harney County is being taxed today at $2.90 an acre on…
as the sponsor of this legislation, I want to merely highlight a few of the points that have already been eloquently stated in arguments supporting this bill by Senator Wallop and Senator Baucus. There are now some 44, I believe…
For the record, I want to make a slight comparison between the State of New Jersey, which he represents so ably, and the State of Oregon. But I do not want to do it State by State--that is, State in comparison to State. I want to compare…
we get into these exercises of contesting who can cut most--who can cut here, who can cut there--and we think we are going to get a lot of political brownie points from the public or the constituents out of this great budget-slashing…
I intend to vote for the Republican substitute budget resolution presented to us today because its guiding principle is that we must strive harder to reduce the deficit, cut the growth rate of entitlement programs, and enable private…
for more than a year now, the world has watched the horror of ethnic cleansing continue daily in war-torn Bosnia. Despite the tragedy of these events, many in the United States have learned little about the consequences of racial and…
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…
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…
I am pleased to offer an amendment to S. 4 which builds upon previous work of the Senate in granting greater flexibility to States and to local jurisdictions. In an age of increasingly limited Federal resources, my amendment is designed to…
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…
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 come to the floor today to pay tribute to a woman who, through her advocacy, changed the face of medical research in this country--Mary Woodard Lasker. Mary died Monday night--the close of a rich and full life that touched thousands…
Mr. President, both the Senator from Hawaii and the Senator from California, present in the Chamber, have kept our focus on this bill beyond the procedures by which we find ourselves frustrated at the moment. The real focus is that we have…
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…
if you took Japan, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Luxembourg, Iceland, the total of all those countries' defense spending is $230 billion…
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…
I again would like to express my appreciation to the Senators from Iowa and Missouri for their help to crafting this amendment and their cosponsorship. We are in agreement that the critical task of disaster hazard mitigation is long…
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