I thank the Chair. It was almost 25 years ago that I traveled around the country with my good friend, the senior Senator from Massachusetts. I was then on the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. He was, I believe, chairman of the Health…

It was not President Reagan's fault, not really our fault. We were just wrong. The only reason I say that is because now we are not facing the same situation we were facing on projections in 1981. Now we are projecting $200 billion to $400…

So, let us go on down some other suggestions. Restrain spending. We all get this from home. If we just spent no more next year than we spend now, in 3 years we will balance the budget. If we spend no more than we spend now, we will balance…

I had prepared over several days a speech for this morning. But because of a news article this morning on the death of Senator Fulbright the day before yesterday, I decided to change my approach and have thrown away all of the comments I…

I am delighted that we have shown a unanimous vote of confidence--we did in the Finance Committee this morning--in Bob Rubin to be Secretary of the Treasury. He is an eminently qualified man. I have had occasion to talk with him over the…

I rise today as a cosponsor of S. 1636, the Marine Mammal Protection Act Amendments of 1994. This bill reflects a bipartisan effort and many months of discussions and drafting that included the Congress, the environmental and conservation…

this is a simple amendment and it calls for a study. It does not call for expenditure of any money other than what the study may cost. It is an amendment to require the Small Business Administration to conduct a study of the effects of the…

The chairman says it is $4.5 trillion; $4.5 trillion in IOU's. Insurance companies do the same thing except they do not invest solely in Government bonds. They have a lot of Government bonds, and they may invest in some real estate. They…

That is correct. They cannot sell below par. They cannot be sold below what they were sold for. That is a good protection because there are bonds, a fair number of bonds, in the market that go up and down. You sometimes have to sell your…

Can we have name, rank, and Social Security number of those four who are not trusting?

I express my strong support for the amendment of the Senator from Maine. I think it is typical of his concern for many of our citizens who are less well off than we are. I think this is a much-needed remedy that will be welcomed even by…

I am delighted to join my good friend, the chairman of the Finance Committee, in supporting all of the measures for all of the reasons he said, but I will touch just a moment on why the public has a sense of uneasiness about Social…

I understand the problem, and we all get it when we go home. In 1972, we changed Social Security and went to a readjustment basis. As a matter of fact, very few people know this. When we went to the cost-of-living adjustment, we did it in…

I feel some ambivalence toward my friend from Arizona. As he knows, I have cosponsored this before. Logic is totally on his side. Money is not. I know there is a disagreement in estimates. There is no question the bill has to lose some…

It is interesting. The Senator says should we not leave it to the local school board. A long time ago, we said, when it comes to freedom of religion, we are not going to allow the local school board to be the last word. We are not going to…

I want to understand what the Senator is aiming at. Maybe the words ``constitutionally permitted'' should be added. But it is this issue of the mandates that I find intriguing because we really are an Alice-in-Wonderland place. It is…

The words ``constitutionally permitted'' are not in this amendment. What the Senator is saying is that school districts must allow prayer that is constitutional.

I do not think we are compelling the school district to do anything. I think we are saying you must follow the existing constitutional law.

They can say that you cannot have compulsory prayer, you cannot have school-led prayer, you cannot have teacher-led prayer. I do not know whether or not the Court has said, if school starts at 8:15 in the morning, that at 9:30 Susie or…

Except it withholds funds. That is rather significant to a local school district. At the moment, I suppose we can pass a sense-of-the-Senate resolution that says to the local school district, ``Do not violate the Constitution. If the…

I believe it has said that a child can have a moment of silent prayer. I am not sure what it has said about a minute of oral prayer, a child doing it himself, so long as it does not disrupt the class, or if somebody says grace before meals.

But if you were to add the words ``constitutionally permitted'' and the Court has said it is fine to have a moment of private, personal prayer or oral prayer but you cannot set yourself afire or you cannot roll about the aisles and disturb…

No, if you were to add the words ``constitutionally permitted,'' the school district can put limitations on unconstitutional prayer. They can say you cannot----

Let me ask my good friend from Missouri a question then because this amendment really falls, in my mind, into three categories. First, we are going to withhold the funds; second, if you prohibit constitutional prayers; and third, the local…

When the school district attempts to require the student to say a prayer, that is unconstitutional.