as I was saying, quoting Mr. Cohen: I didn't know at the time-- Mr. Cohen, who, again, previously wrote that he was in favor of allowing this procedure to be legal, says: I didn't know at the time, of course, and maybe the people who…

I will talk about the medical necessity for this procedure, and I will cite a group of physicians and other people, other physicians, who have written extensively on the fact that this procedure is never medically indicated. In fact, it is…

He mentioned a case in his previous article in June of a woman who had an abortion and used that sort of to justify late-term abortions and particularly the partial-birth abortion procedure. He revisits that in the beginning of the article…

I want to say this bill was a long time coming. We have been hassling through a variety of different amendments. I want to thank Senator Leahy, Senator Kennedy, and others for their cooperation in finally getting this bill to pass. This is…

I just ask the Senator from Minnesota if he has ever heard of the drug Daypro. It is a competing drug that had the same problems going through the FDA as Lodine, the same problems, the same delay. But in the 1996 omnibus appropriations…

I also want to add to that laundry list of support that the House passed this bill with a vetoproof majority. This has overwhelming support in the House of Representatives. As the Senator mentioned, the President would like this bill. I am…

the reason the market price is always above the quota price is because the peanut program is not just a price program, it is also a quota program. It limits the supply. So, of course, the Secretary tells peanut growers how much they can…

It is also my understanding under this section that a supermarket would not be held liable for any civil or criminal penalties in the event that the store were to be depleted of its supply of brochures or whatever information is provided…

the second amendment we will be voting on today is not a peanut amendment. It is an ethics amendment. It has nothing to do with the peanut program. It does not change the peanut program. It does not retroactively or prospectively alter…

let these little guys get a little piece of the pie here. If you are really for the small- and medium-size peanut farmer in Alabama or Georgia, then what you want to do is you want these folks to divest from these big quotas and start…

This is an amendment that gets, again, to what I see as a group of very influential, wealthy, graced quota holders who have been put in a position to profit extraordinarily by this program, and have put themselves in a position that is, I…

I want to talk about it because I think it is important to realize the cost of the peanut program. Not only do I refer to the cost of the peanut program to the American peanut farmers, to the millions of processing jobs, and to the…

first off, this amendment would cost about a quarter of the savings in the bill. It is about a $15 billion additional cost added to this bill. But on substantive ground, this is similar to the vote we took last week on the Graham…

I am offering an amendment here that I think remedies a huge inequity in the peanut program that makes the peanut program, frankly, different than any of the other traditional commodity programs in existence. The other commodity programs…

The point I have tried to make is 22 percent of the farmers own 80 percent of the quota. Sure there are people who have, you know, a little quota here, a little quota there. But it does not amount to much. This program is stacked with the…

All the refugees you talk about have a 5-year exemption from the ineligibility for benefits. Anyone that is in this country is eligible for benefits up to the first 5 years they are in this country.

With respect to this list, I know in this bill--and I have not read every page of all of this--my belief is veterans are exempted, also. I say to the Senator from California, having worked on this issue for quite some time, I think you may…

They are not touched prospectively. Again, all these provisions I am explaining do apply and will apply to people who are in this country. So, for example, if you have a sponsored immigrant who is in this country receiving welfare…

Let me finish my point. I go back to the sponsorship agreement. What you are ignoring here is, you say, well, it is going to fall on the counties. Under what I described, under the system I described of SSI, for example, who should the…

I suggest a couple things to the Senator from California. No. 1, this is a policy that I think needs to be changed, and, No. 2, the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people on these programs who can and should be working, as a…

this is a debate that is virtually identical to the debate we engaged in last night at a rather late hour with the Senator from Florida on his amendment. His amendment removes all the provisions dealing with legal immigrants from the bill…

I will be happy to send each Governor a copy of this debate so they will be fully informed as to what they are getting into.

It was included in the Senate bill, which passed 87 to 12 here, in the reconciliation bill, and in the welfare bill that was vetoed by the President. In fact, the block grant provision that is in this bill actually has a lot higher hurdles…

from the numbers that I have, I have four States that would be eligible for block grant under the EBT provision, seven States would be under the error rate of under 6 percent. That is out of 53 jurisdictions that are eligible for the…

We are not attempting nor would I recommend we block grant emergency assistance. So you keep pointing back to one State in one instance and draw a bad case for that. It would be--I am not arguing there would not be a severe strain. But I…