Arlen Specter

I have listened to your exchange with Senator Leahy and I fully agree that section 1343 already encompasses computer fraud and that amending it is not necessary.

I made a personal visit to Saudi Arabia, to Dhahran on August 25 and Riyadh on August 26, and my personal conclusion, backed up by the staff report, was that there was no intelligence failure. In fact, in the preceding year, there had been…

I would take strong exception to any language if it refers to anything which my distinguished colleague, I, or others in the advocacy of this position have done. We have spoken of it directly. I did so earlier this week in the conference…

I will not suggest anything that would make a lawyer rich... to try to get the parties in the pharmaceutical companies and the generics... to try to solve this off the floor, because I think that would be in the best interest of the…

Well, if the Senator from Arkansas is prepared to have a judicial determination as to what a substantial investment is before the generic is offered for sale --I see my colleague shaking his head in the negative. I thought that is what the…

Well, since that is the purported intent of the legislation of the Senator from Arkansas, then the sale of the generic could not be made until the court had determined that there was a substantial investment. It is my understanding that…

If I may follow up on that, I do not fully understand what the Senator from Arkansas just said. Would it be the obligation, then, of the generic manufacturer to show that there had been compliance with the law, that there had been a…

I strenuously oppose this amendment. As chairman of the subcommittee having jurisdiction over LIHEAP funding, I can tell you that we have fought hard for program funding this year. There have been consistent reductions in program funding…

In the vote to table the Rockefeller amendment, I supported the budget resolution, which is moderate and maintains the solvency of Medicare. Contrary to the argument that there are Medicare cuts, the fact is that Medicare expenditures…

I am introducing two bills designed to bring Americans together on one of the most controversial, if not the most controversial matter facing the United States domestically today, and that is the question of abortion, pro-choice, pro-life…

I think the work of the consortium which you have described is the kind of work which is needed to continue universal newborn hearing screening consistent with the healthy people 2000 report and the NIH recommendations. I would support the…

It is my strong view that a healthy start program is directly germane and directly relevant to the pending legislation on health care and that it is a jurisdictional question. I do not quite understand the argument. This program has been…

This is in line with efforts which are now being made by the Appropriations Subcommittee which I chair, Labor, Health, Human Services and Education, to allocate more funding for Title XX on abstinence. This is a funding issue which I have…

I share your interest in ensuring that HCFA has the information necessary to reduce the costs of health-related entitlements while maintaining quality care. I also agree that the information management system referenced in the committee…

That is further correct. This is a project that warrants full and fair consideration by HCFA, which should adhere to the intentions of the Senate with regard to this important piece of report language.

My colleague is correct. Libraries are important in promoting literacy and I want to make it clear that the committee intends that library literacy projects continue to receive support through the additional funds allocated for library…

Senator Pell, we are pleased to be able to provide support in the amount of $5 million in fiscal year 1996 for the International Education Program in title VI of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Since this sum is one-half of the…

Senator Hatfield, the answer is that these funds are intended for regional priorities only and only when the priority is determined by a laboratory's board, and is a priority within the general problem areas established in the law. None of…

The laboratories, by law, are to have their research priorities and program of work determined totally by their regional educational governing boards. These boards are responsible to meet the education needs of their region. We are not…

We have provided $51 million for the regional educational laboratories in the education research item. We have 10 laboratories across the Nation. This funding will provide them each with a $1 million increase.

The problem is the $1.3 billion from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is not realizable until the year 1999. But I agree with what Senator Kohl said about working hard to try to find them. But if we do not find them, I do not believe it…

I have relied principally on the substantive arguments that this amendment simply takes too much away from Peter to pay Paul, and that the resolution is going to have to come with the subcommittee bill and with the reallocation of funds. I…

Reluctant as I am to disagree with my distinguished colleague from Vermont, the Senate is locked into the allocation. We are locked into the allocation which has been given to the subcommittee which has jurisdiction over these three…

This amendment puts the whole subcommittee in that position because if it passes and there is no increased allocation, the fact of life is that everything in the whole bill with the exception of the Department of Education, Headstart, and…

Unless we increase the allocation, which I would like to do, is it not true that we are going to lose $105 million in funding for LIHEAP?