Lindsey Graham

The purpose in my offering this sense-of-the-Senate amendment is to take facts that have been reported by the Social Security Administration and make them part of this year's roadmap when we decide what to do to get through the budget…

I do not want to misquote the Senator. I do not want to put words in his mouth. I do not want to take one part of his quote to suggest it means something that it really does not. My question simply put: In June 1998, was the Senator trying…

I applaud you for going down this road. The sooner, the better for, I think, most of us.

Will the Senator agree that for any conservative to be able to work for the Clinton administration and do well shows a tremendous amount of tolerance?

It is my understanding one of the attacks is Mr. Estrada is in fact a rightwing ideolog who may use his political philosophy to shape the law in an unfair way. Is that correct?

It was our intention to maintain the amendment in all respects, other than adding the language that begins on page 2 at line 23 and runs through page 3 at line 4. That was our sole intent in offering the amendment in the form that we have…

It will add an additional authority to the President relative to the use of force.

I completely agree. I think we should have an analysis that includes both the debit and the credit side of the accounting ledger so we will be able to make an informed judgment as to what the real economic consequences of our decisions…

What CBO has said is that for the States as a collective, that there would be no additional cost as a result of this. I have asked CBO to prepare a State-by-State analysis of what those offsetting savings would be. I do not have those…

But I think it is a given that no State is going to have zero savings. So that every one of these State-by-State numbers is overstated.

What got Enron in trouble was it set up a whole constellation of off-budget partnerships in order to hide their expenses.

And therefore it overstated their profitability. We have a chart here which does the opposite. We have a chart here which hides the benefits the States are going to get and only highlights those additional costs.

They did not do a State-by-State analysis. I do not know who did the analysis of the State-by-State costs presented by my Republican colleagues so I cannot have any means of even determining who to go to talk to about where these numbers…

What leads the Senator to believe that the only way in which the States would secure savings under the Graham-Smith amendment would have been through the catastrophic savings?

Finally, does not the Senator think there are ample opportunities available for a person who wishes to take the risk and assume the chance that they may be buying into a stock market which is not always going up, they might be buying into…

Is that not the same basic structure that we have had from the very beginning with Social Security, that it also provides the same level of security and peace of mind to its beneficiaries because it also is a defined-benefit program?

The Florida retirement plan, prior to its modification, was in what would be called a defined benefit plan that gave security assurance to Florida's retirees as to what they would have in retirement, what they could count on, what they…

Our amendment has a simple objective. It is to bring Medicare into the 21st century by providing for it what virtually every private health insurance plan has--coverage of prescription drugs. When Medicare was established in 1965…

I also appreciate the kind remarks of the Senator from Utah and hope that he will open his Congressional Record tomorrow and will read the remarks that I am going to be delivering shortly, as we both share a very strong interest in the…

That is true, I say to the Senator. What you have just said contributes to a recent poll, done by the Kaiser Family Foundation in May of this year, which asked Americans: Which kind of plan did they want? For Republicans in America, 58…

It is a testimony to exactly those attributes that we have had Medicare for 37 years and never, never has it been proposed that we add an assets test to people's ability to secure the basic necessities of health care that sustain life and…

Section 302 of S. 2673 involves Corporate Responsibility for Financial Reports. I am concerned that in subsection (b), where the CEO and CFO sign documents to verify the accuracy of financial reports, the bill's language says they shall…

I express my great admiration for what Senator Sarbanes has done in presenting to America such a meaningful piece of legislation to deal with one of the great scandals that has occurred in the history of our free enterprise system, and…

The origin of my concerns regarding the enumeration of specific components stems from the language used to define energy efficient commercial building property expenditures at the beginning of Section 2105. It indicates that in order to…

Section 2105 of this legislation, the section providing a tax deduction for construction of energy efficient commercial buildings, does not list the specific building components that will qualify the building. This is different from…