members of the Senate, today I join my colleague, Senator Mack, in offering an amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations bill that will provide much needed relief to agriculture in the State of Florida in the wake of the extreme drought…

this amendment will increase by $2 million the funds available to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in their battle against the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, or medfly. I am, unfortunately, all too familiar with the devastation…

I would be very happy if this amendment would ride into the sunset as long as it didn't return. Point 3 does relate specifically to Cuba which is an object case of the point 2, which is that the reason that Cuba is in its desperate…

But clearly, the plain interpretation of the sentence that I just read is that the remedy against whatever the cause might be, whether it is nuclear proliferation, support of terrorists, attack against our national security, harboring drug…

I believe it is even more broad. I believe they have advocated a total lifting of the U.S. embargo.

I hope that at some point someone will explain what that modification is. But this question relates to a different issue. One of the typical restraints that the United States has imposed on the sale of food and medicine to suspect…

I rise before you today to offer an amendment on behalf of myself and Senators Dorgan, Coverdell, Murray, and Hagel. I offer this amendment to correct an injustice in our current student financial aid policy. Since June 1 of 1987, the…

this penalty, which is currently subjected to veterans' benefits, does not apply to other analogous benefits. For instance, the current law states that those persons who receive benefits under the National Service Program Educational Award…

I am here with a sense of disappointment in that the President of the United States today is visiting my State and, particularly, visiting areas of the State that have recently been ravaged by an unprecedented series of wildfires. I regret…

I would like to conclude by recognizing the person who first brought this issue to my attention, Mr. Ron Atwell, who is the director of veterans benefits at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. While participating in…

I join him in the same enthusiastic reform of the Internal Revenue Service and see this as an important chapter in a longer book which will soon bring us to the pages of simplification of the Internal Revenue Code. Mr. President, this…

I rise today to ask for your attention to an issue of great importance to the future of science and space exploration: the International Space Station. We have debated the merits of this project on many occasions. It is time to end this…

We have got two leaders here today that are in the Hall of Fame, one in baseball and one in football. This really is about team sports; politics are about team sports. Two teams are going to take the field today when we vote. One team is…

at this point in the debate, it is appropriate to ask one very simple question: Why are we here? Why have Members of the Senate spent months of their time focusing on this issue? Why, with a busy schedule, and few legislative days left…

Senator, I agree with your statement. We have one principal objective with this legislation, and that is to reduce teenage smoking, to reduce this unconscionable level of death and damage that is inflicted upon our young people by their…

I look forward at the appropriate time to discuss the amendment of the Senator from Georgia because I agree with his premise that there is a relationship between tobacco smoking and the use of drugs. I have spent a great deal of my time in…

now the rest of the story about tritium. The good news is that when we are talking about tritium, something we ought to be talking about, my good friend the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Wamp) is absolutely right, it is an essential…

Also having expired during that 10 minutes I have been speaking, have been 41 American youth who have taken up smoking during the time I have been speaking; 14 of those will expire prematurely because of tobacco-related affliction. It is…

we have just been subjected in the U.S. Senate to what I think could appropriately be described as a filibuster--4 hours of wandering discussion on an amendment that is now before the Senate. During those 4 hours of that filibuster, 500…

I am proud to join Senators Helms, Lott, Mack, and nearly twenty other Senators in introducing the Cuban Solidarity Act. This bill will capitalize on the historic opportunity provided by Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this past January…

approximately ten days ago, the Senate voted to ratify the accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. I joined 79 of my colleagues in supporting this historic measure. This vote occurred…

along with Senators Chafee, Johnson, Grassley, and Harkin, I will be introducing today the Nursing Home Patient Protection Act. This is legislation to protect our Nation's seniors from indiscriminate patient dumping from nursing homes…

I rise today, joined by my esteemed colleague Senator Mack, to introduce legislation to rename the Gainesville, Florida Veterans Affairs Medical Center after its distinguished and long-time Director: Malcolm Randall. After thirty-two years…

to take up where my colleague left off about families and about doing better and about hopes and dreams, this bill has a lot of that in it. I am the first person in my family to ever go to college because my parents worked hard. They died…

In the Orange County school district a proposal that is close to becoming a reality involves the school district working with the private developer who will build a public school which will be co-located with a YMCA facility. The school…