Lincoln Chafee

I would also say to the distinguished Democratic leader, it appears around here if there is anything controversial now, you need 60 votes to get it passed. Not a 51 vote margin, 51 to 49, it has to be 60 votes if the legislation is…

Well, the Senator has a good point. The other side of the coin is that once you permit this, you are permitting communities to set up and operate. That may be all well and good. But BFI, or Waste Haulers, or whoever it is, cannot come in…

could I ask a question to make a point? When it passed unanimously last year, that was when the other party was in charge, had the majority. So not only did all of the Democrats vote for it in a bill that was drafted by a majority of the…

I wonder if I could present the counterargument to the Senator's proposal. The Senator is saying that it goes against his grain and his philosophical belief that a local community cannot impose so-called flow control; a local community…

I think this. First, I am not willing to concede that in Broward or Dade County, or wherever it might be, inevitably, if do you not have flow control, your waste is going to end up in an environmentally damaging situation. That does not…

I do not want to quibble over language, but it is not us saying you are forever shut off. If we did nothing, you could be shut off, if we did not pass a piece of legislation here. What Florida is doing now, plus those who want to do it…

Mr. President, today Senator Pell and I are introducing legislation to name the post office at 24 Corliss Street in Providence, RI after a renowned Rhode Islander and a proud American--Harry Kizirian. The Rhode Island congressional…

here is the problem I find: We have a terrible deficit of $200 billion which every objective group says will rise to over $300 billion and close to $400 billion by the end of the century. The Republicans have come up with a program that…

I appreciate the suggestions that the Senator from Massachusetts made. Tax expenditures--I suppose he is talking about, first of all, a whole series of things. Whether we should be providing pensions, deductible pensions, or whether we are…

I believe the tactics used by Mr. LaPierre in his recent fundraising letter for the National Rifle Association are just plain wrong. This letter does not contribute to any informed debate. Instead, it is inaccurate and irrational. It…

today I join the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Smith] in introducing legislation dealing with interstate waste and flow control authority. I want to acknowledge the Senator's effort. As the chairman of the Environment Committee's…

first of all, this is legislation on an appropriations bill, and I think that is improper to start with. But more than that, it is absolutely clear that in the Environment and Public Works Committee we are going to deal with the Endangered…

let me comment very briefly on the Sense-of-the-Senate resolution offered by Senator Bradley and me. The resolution is, of course, not binding to the States. The last thing we want to do is attach a mandate to an unfunded mandates reform…