I rise to support what seems to be a growing notion on the floor that we not vote on this nominee today, that we take an opportunity for the sake of fairness to give Judge Massiah-Jackson the opportunity to respond to the new information…

I too feel that we here in the Senate, when it comes to justice, really should be jurors, and that we should get all the information. The information shared, I think, as correctly stated by my colleague from Pennsylvania and by the Senator…

I rise to offer a measure to revise the Honey Research, Promotion and Consumer Information Act, the statute under which the National Honey Board is organized. Briefly, my bill would impose a penny per pound assessment on handlers and…

I voted against NAFTA. So I think I have some legitimacy here. I am not debating that some of the agreements we have entered into in this country--you can't say only the ones entered into under fast track. We have entered into a lot of…

But in the House I voted for fast track because I believe that it is important for us to continue to expand our trade horizons. We are not debating the trade agreement. We have seen lots of things about the trade deficit, balance of trade…

I am accepting the Senator's arguments as true--that in fact what you are signifying happened is true. By staying there and not changing things does the Senator think things would get better? To me that is the sin of when you believe that…

What I am talking about is actually an increase in the amount of funding for a national park that I think is one of the most significant and important national parks we have in this country, the Gettysburg National Battlefield, a battle…

The subject matter on which I want to spend the majority of my time speaking on is the issue of campaign finance reform. As Members have gotten up to discuss the issue, I think one might be led to the impression that those of us who oppose…

let me first address the issue the Senator from Massachusetts was referring to with respect to deportation of immigrants in this country. I am a very strong supporter of the Mack amendment. I believe people are entitled to due process and…

Let me put the information out, and then I would like the Senator to respond to it. I can do it in the form of a question. But the Senator from Minnesota makes the assertion that this comes right on the heels of a Teamsters strike when…

The Center has received funds in five previous Commerce-State-Justice appropriations bills through the Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership and, as originally envisioned, it was to receive $5 million in…

I come here excited in a sense that we are finally doing something that when I first ran for office back in 1990 I pledged to do, which was to come here and try to balance the Federal budget. Not to put schemes out there that say, well, we…

Did the Justice Department give any other rationale for changing its mind, other than the fact that what we know is the Vice President was implicated in this, directly now implicated, with knowledge of this fundraising scheme at this…

When in fact the chairman has said--and I think it has come out since then, that the FBI and CIA in fact cleared that statement and in fact had made some changes, I think one change in one word, is my understanding, one change in one word…

Once they understood that the Vice President could be implicated in this testimony, he called the Justice Department, not the Justice Department called him; is that your understanding?

After the front-page story that morning, the story that implicated the Vice President with respect to knowledge of the fundraising scheme, Senator Daschle came forward and said, ``You're not going to get any support for allowing these…

And the Justice Department, as a result, I assume, of this conversation changed its mind as far as allowing these witnesses to testify under a grant of immunity.

The Justice Department said it was OK to give immunity. The only thing we are aware of, that has been talked about, intervening between the Justice Department saying yes to 17 of the 18 monks to be able to come up here and testify and then…

So in the end everyone agreed that the chairman's original statement was correct, and that really the sole voice of dissent was a Justice Department letter which was intended really just to muddy the waters and cast doubt.

What would be the possible reason why someone at a high level of the Justice Department would sign off on a letter which they know would be untrue to basically call into question Chairman Thompson's assertion that the Chinese had some plot…

Who knew otherwise, knew that the FBI--part of the Justice Department--had cleared this statement, had signed off on that statement.

I agree with your understanding. You accurately describe my view of the intent of section 824.

What this amendment does is lower that cap to $200,000, and in so doing it applies to not just executives but scientists--people who are in demand, who are going to be taken away from high-technology firms and national defense and are…

Again I ask the question, does it apply to people who are scientists, who, as the Information Technology Association of America said, people with highly technical skills? Do they apply to this cap?

Is the Senator aware there are many businesses that contract with defense and other Government agencies that do primarily, almost exclusively, Government work? Are you aware that there are many companies involved that do that?