Lincoln Chafee

Yes. He certainly was awesome. He was a big six-foot-four. He took charge. He had what you might call ``command presence.''

I agree entirely with my colleague, Senator Pryor, and wish to raise one simple but important point. It should be noted clearly and conclusively that there is an extensive record of evidence from the U.S. Trade Representative, the Patent…

On March 15, 1996, I wrote to Chairman Lugar to express my concerns about the potential undermining of wetlands conservation provisions in the farm bill. Proposals to exempt a vast number of wetlands from the Swampbuster Program and…

I would challenge those who argue that the President already has sufficient authority to rescind unwanted spending items. The opposite is true. The rescission authority vested in the President today barely works at all. In the overwhelming…

We are told it is an ``unwarranted intrusion on State authority.'' Yet, the National Governors' Association enthusiastically supports this measure. We are told the bill would ``encourage wrongful conduct because it abolishes joint…

Mr. President, yesterday, I briefly outlined the history of this legislation, which represents now 15 years--15 years; that is a long time--we have been debating this liability reform act. It started in 1981 when Senator Kasten, of…

EPA has used its 404(c) authority only 12 times in the history of the Clean Water Act. It is hardly a waste of Government resources. Moreover, these veto actions, although infrequent, have protected almost 7,300 acres of wetlands…

I must say that I was sorely disappointed to read over the weekend that the President has issued a veto threat for this carefully balanced, carefully drafted, well-thought-out measure. I find it hard to believe the President's advisors…

the managers' amendment to the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996 includes a provision--added on behalf of myself and Senator Kempthorne--to increase the appropriation for Endangered Species Act listing activities by the U.S…

today I come to the floor in what you might call a bittersweet mood, and that is to announce to my colleagues the retirement of one of our most trusted Senate advisers, Ms. Jean Lauver, who has served on the Environment and Public Works…

for the past several years, we have been trying to pass legislation to fix the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program. Superfund is a program with a tortured history and certainly an uneven record of success that can only be described as…

I note that in the second-degree amendment it provides $1 to the Fish and Wildlife Service to do the entire emergency listing. That shows you how serious the other side is about this whole proposition. In other words, in the underlying…

Mr. President, what is wrong with the Hutchison amendment, the second-degree amendment? First of all, it maintains the moratorium on final decisions to list species through the end of this fiscal year. Now, Mr. President, let us briefly…

there have been several references to people resisting the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. I do not know who the references are to. But it certainly is clear that if this moratorium is extended, the pressure to reauthorize…

last fall the Senate approved a version of the D.C. appropriations bill with no trouble. We passed it here in the Senate with no difficulty. Later, the House passed its version, but in its version there was the creation of a new Federal…

last Friday, January 19, the barge North Cape ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of my home State of Rhode Island. It is estimated that more than 800,000 gallons of No. 2 diesel heating oil aboard the barge spilled into Block Island…

Superfund is broken, and today the Environment and Public Works Committee is putting forward a plan that will fix it. Senator Bob Smith and his staff on the Superfund subcommittee have produced a remarkable reform package, one deserving of…

I can see this being extremely burdensome for the bank if each quarter they have to come up with everybody who has a deposit in the bank that appears on some list the State submits to them. I presume the banks are permitted to charge…

Well, I am not sure it is so simple as all that. It comes up every quarter, four times a year. But I am not on the Banking Committee. This is the kind of thing that I really wish had gone through the Banking Committee and let them have…

But we have a real problem here, Mr. President. Everybody is coming forward with amendments--wonderful amendments and good things, undoubtedly. But there is no method of paying for them. All that means is that those of us on the Finance…

As I read the amendment, it is not optional for the bank to participate if the State decides that they want the bank to participate. In other words, as I read the amendment, it says that the State shall work out agreements with the banks…

Am I also correct that the suggestion was made by the Senator from California that it would be impossible for a legal alien's child to be in a Head Start program? As I understand it, if the ``deemor's'' assets were not of significant…

I would like to ask the proponent of the amendment a question. As I understand, this is going to cost $1.4 billion over 5 years. Has the Senator a method of paying for this?

Mr. President, one of the reasons that our welfare costs today are so high is the number of absent deadbeat parents who, in spite of a court order, in spite of judicial determination that they owe weekly or monthly child support, still…

I want to assure the Senator, because I was disturbed by that provision likewise, that there cannot be that kind--a contribution to Medicaid does not count. It has to be basically the AFDC existing categories. It cannot be something for…