The conferees noted the Navy's progress with the Advanced Technology Avionics Subsystems project as exemplified by its recent demonstration using Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) technologies for avionics applications. The conferees were…

Let me respond directly to the Senator from California. Let me quote from the 39,000 OB/GYNs letter that was sent up here. It says that the policy committee of this select panel--``could identify no circumstances under which this procedure…

What has been sort of taken as a matter of record is that 80 to 90 percent of the partial-birth abortions performed in this country are on healthy women with healthy babies and that these are done for truly elective reasons. The idea that…

I commend him for coming forward and expressing his views. We don't agree, but as is appropriate here in the U.S. Senate, we can disagree without being disagreeable. I respect his right to articulate his viewpoints. With respect to the…

I respond to that by saying I think it points out the cruelty, unnecessary cruelty, of doing the procedure that we are attempting to ban here. What was done by the woman and the doctor in this case, I think, first off, the baby was not…

They are focusing on legal arguments. The fact of the matter is we are one of three branches of Government. We can put forward things that we believe are constitutional. We can test what they are. I have seen a lot of decisions at the…

first, again, I thank the Senator from Ohio for his excellent comments and particularly his latter focus on the legal issues that were not brought up earlier. I had not had the opportunity, and neither did anybody else, to focus attention…

Let me assure everyone in this Chamber and everyone within the sound of my voice that there is a clear life-of-the-mother exception that gives physicians the right to make those critical medical decisions that unfortunately may occur that…

I just find it remarkable that we seem to create these fictions when it comes to life. When it comes to the life of little children, we create this fiction in our mind. And it was a fiction that was created back when Roe v. Wade was…

I find it quite ironic that I am, at the closing here, passing this bill about which I have strong reservations because I was not able to place an amendment in and have an amendment debated on this bill. But this is the child nutrition…

I am hopeful, even though the numbers do not look good right now, that we will be able to muster sufficient support to do what the House did, which is to override the President's veto. The House voted, with I believe six or seven votes…

I today introduce legislation pertaining to the federal excise tax on beer. The federal excise tax on beer was doubled as part of the 1991 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Today, it remain as the only "luxury tax" enacted as part of OBRA…

I also wish to express my support for this provision. One of the key industry members of the Transportation Safety Alliance, Union Switch and Signal, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They manufacture signaling automation and…

this amendment does three things, all of which will, I believe, aid career colleges in proprietary skills and in their ability to hold down at-risk default rates. They are serving populations who, as a result of being at risk, have a…

It is a very important amendment to proprietary schools, career schools, who are doing the real lion's share of the work in educating in the poor communities, with disadvantaged people in our society. They are doing a great job in some of…

the 1999 Defense Authorization bill before us contains a demonstration project that would allow some DoD- eligible retirees to join FEHBP plans, under a separate risk pool. It is my understanding that this ensures that DoD retirees who…

this amendment to S. 2057, the Fiscal Year 1999 Defense Authorization Act, provides authority for the United States Marine Corps to enter into a barter agreement with a commercial entity for the purpose of allowing existing Marine Corps…

I want to bring a rider to the attention of Members. In conference, a rider was added, not debated on this floor or in the House, that extended for 2 months the period of time in which Secretary Shalala and the Department of Health and…

I found it quite remarkable, sitting and listening to what was laid out, I think, somewhat factually about the problems we have in education, that the educational system is not meeting the needs of our country in providing good citizens…

I rise today to offer tribute to the late Ms. Colleen Cleary-Myers and to offer condolences to her family on their loss. Mrs. Cleary-Myers was a beloved wife, daughter and mother. I describe her this way not only because it is true, but…

I understand that. All I am saying is that money is going to be spent next year. That money is going to be spent next year. And in the appropriations bill that deals with these different accounts, we are saying we want to keep it under…

the Senator from Texas did an excellent job of outlining the amendment. I think his comments are very persuasive. Let me add one element to the veracity of the comments of the Senator from Texas. He said this bill has some $2.5 billion for…

this amendment codifies a time line for the Administrator to promulgate final designations under the new ozone and PM standards. Is it the Senator's intention that areas in violation because they are heavily impacted by dirty air from…

if I may, I would like to briefly inquire with my colleague how his amendment will affect areas of my state. It is my understanding that this amendment will not in any way interfere with or delay efforts currently underway by EPA and…

I just want to thank the majority leader, again, for his willingness to cooperate with both Senator Specter and me in our request that Judge Massiah-Jackson's nomination not be voted on here in the next few days but that the process be…