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Mr. Chairman, now that the entertainment is over, we ought to be talking about the issue that is before us and the amendment before us, and having survived these dairy wars in the past, I thought it was possible that we might get by one…
many of our colleagues representing the agriculture community ask that you give funding consideration to this important function when again you meet with the Senate in conference.
For all the talk of a postindustrial service economy, Mr. President, people's most basic needs are still food and shelter. Let me offer some facts and figures to help put things in perspective. Eleven of Oregon's thirty-six counties had…
this coming weekend the President of the United States will travel to my home State of Oregon to deliver the commencement speech at Portland State University. As Oregon's junior Senator, I welcome President Clinton. I look forward to…
I think they would be proud, as I am, this evening, proud of the conduct of this debate, and the people who are in it, because we who represent agriculture represent farmers. We do not represent anybody else, not huge companies, not…
Mr, Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I have the utmost and greatest respect for my friend from New York. But I must, Mr. Speaker, correct the issue here because without question this is an unfunded mandate…
Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding the assault two weeks in a row by the chairman of the Committee on Rules, I am glad that we are finally at the point where we can pass in a very bipartisan way this bill. I think some of us who have…
as a cosponsor of S. 1723, I rise today to support the American Competitiveness Act. Mr. President, the H-1B immigrant visa program is not the preferred avenue of hiring by our U.S. high tech companies. Hewlett-Packard, which is one of…
Renee, like many mothers and fathers, sees most government spending as "day care" and not "child care." Child care, she says, is something that every family does. Day care is the activity undertaken out of either preference or necessity…
I find it very humbling to be among these giants as a newcomer to this body. I feel something like the student questioning the wisdom of his professor because when it comes to names like Pat Moynihan, John Warner, and Sam Nunn, these are…
the situation in Bosnia and the continued participation of U.S. soldiers in the NATO operations is an issue about which many Senators have very strong opinions. I agree with my colleague from Idaho that the decision to keep U.S. troops…
Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty provides that NATO members, by unanimous agreement, may invite the accession to the North Atlantic Treaty of any other European state in a position to further the principles of the North Atlantic…
I am one of Senator Hutchison's greatest fans, but I simply must oppose her amendment simply because NATO has for so long been a place where contending European countries have come together in a common purpose and not pursuing national…
But I would simply fear that we are changing its complexion, turning its focus away from a collective alliance for security and into a place for dispute resolutions. I think, those European countries, as I have discussed this issue with…
with all respect for my friend from Iowa, I believe the Harkin amendment attempts to strangle NATO's expansion because it cannot prevent NATO expansion. This amendment places unreasonable restrictions on expenditures by limiting our…
Mr. President, I think the Clinton administration made a serious error in allowing the other NATO countries to reopen the strategic concept issue. The current document agreed to in 1991 needs no alteration. The approach taken under…
Wouldn't we, if we accept the amendment of the Senator from Iowa, then be relegating Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic second class citizenship in NATO?
One other question. It seems to me, as we look at the numbers that the Senator is presenting, $125 billion versus $1.5 billion, and changing circumstances, I would remind the Senate that the $125 billion was predicated on the Congressional…
I was once asked by a mother in a town meeting I had in Oregon why her son or daughter should put his or her life at risk for a Hungarian or Pole or Czech through the expansion of NATO. My answer to her was that the surest way not to put…
we have confirmed the nomination of an outstanding judicial nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Garr ``Mike'' King is a consummate professional, who is universally respected within the Oregon legal community for…
today I rise to speak on my sense-of-the-Senate amendment regarding the use of tobacco revenues to restore solvency to the Medicare Program. During the markup of this resolution, my colleague, Senator Lautenberg, offered a very similar…
The Senate finds that-- (1) financing for Social Security Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is provided primarily by taxes levied on wages and net self-employment income. The level of these tax rates is set permanently…
Mr. Chairman, we have listened to arguments against this bill which are really arguments against the so-called ``salvage rider'' bill of 2 or 3 years ago. Those arguments simply fall on deaf ears if we carefully read this bill because…
Mr. Chairman, the Forest Recovery and Protection Act of 1998 is the result of some 14 months of listening and learning and fact-gathering. It is the result of seven hearings in which we heard from a broad array of people across this…
Mr. Chairman, what we have heard is a myth. Nothing about this bill coordinates with any of these speeches that we have heard. The public is invited twice in this bill to state their opinion. We have a scientific panel of the finest…
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