to begin with I would like to congratulate the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Ballenger] and our committee chairman for working on some legislation for a long period of time that really will help people. This Congress has been historic…

State legislators want welfare reform to succeed. In order to succeed, we need adequate implementation time to craft comprehensive welfare reform that best fits the needs in our individual states. Therefore, we strongly support Senator Bob…

let me just make a few points. The Senator from Pennsylvania has made a very good argument, if we were going to leave the welfare program as we have known it for the last three-plus decades. The whole premise of us being here today until…

if there is one phrase that has characterized the debate on welfare reform, it is the phrase that ``we are going to end welfare as we have known it.'' What we have known welfare as has a number of dimensions. We have focused a great deal…

this is certainly an issue of dollars. It is certainly an issue of impact on local institutions required to provide services. But it is also fundamentally an issue of fairness, fairness in many dimensions. Let me just mention two. One of…

the issue presented by this motion to strike is a simple one. We have already spent weeks debating the issue of the benefits for legal aliens--legal aliens. On May 2, we passed a comprehensive immigration bill which outlined the restraints…

there are two other aspects of the policy shifts in this legislation. The immigration bill contained the shift in eligibility, the constriction of eligibility based on deeming for legal aliens in order to generate funds that would then be…

I think this question precisely underscores why I have offered this series of strikes. We spent a week- plus on this floor in April and May debating a comprehensive immigration bill. We came to a studied judgment as to how, for whom, for…

in my State of Florida, we are now receiving thousands of refugees and people seeking asylum from countries such as Cuba, generally under agreements that have been reached between the United States Federal Government and foreign…

It states that: Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in paragraph (2), an alien who is a qualified alien (as defined in section 2431) is not eligible for any specified Federal program (as defined in paragraph…

the purpose of the series of motions which I will make, which I hope will be considered as a single motion for purposes of our final vote, is to strike from this legislation those sections which relate to the eligibility of legal…

to be clear, my argument is that this is a redundant and inappropriate piece of legislation to be considering the issue of the eligibility of legal aliens for Federal benefits. That is exactly what we did in the immigration bill. We spent…

The Senator said the only people this applied to were those who had a sponsor who could assume responsibility. I understood the Senator to say specifically, for instance, they did not apply to refugees who were admitted because they are…

the main points of this legislation are as follows. No. 1, it will exempt prison workers from the minimum wage provisions. No. 2, it will put an end to a cascade of lawsuits that our States have been faced with by prisoners demanding back…

She states, ``By expecting the unexpected, we were able to give both sons an education at a fine university that would certainly otherwise have been difficult for me as a single parent.'' When Daniel died, I silently offered ``thanks that…

I wish to speak briefly on a provision which I hope will be included in this bill at the time we take our final vote. It is a provision which is of great importance to working parents and their children across America. For years, one of…

I first will extend my commendation to Senators Feingold and McCain and the others who have worked so hard to craft what is truly a bipartisan proposal to deal with one of the serious cancers in our American democratic system, and that is…

I rise today to introduce timely legislation with Senators Baucus and Pryor that addresses the problem of Medicare fraud and abuse. The two bills, entitled the ``Medicare Anti-Fraud Act of 1996'' and the ``Medicare Restore Trust Act of…

I shall vote for the constitutional amendment to insert into the U.S. Constitution a provision requiring a balanced budget as a fundamental principle of our Nation's public policy. It is unfortunate that we have to vote on a constitutional…

I would like to say this. Why can the greatest Nation in the world with very smart people not increase take-home pay without costing anybody their job? I have yet to have anybody come down here and deny the fact that we are going to have…

this amendment deals with two important issues. One is preserving the integrity of the Medicare trust fund, and, second, an effective assault against Medicare fraud. It provides that any funds that are derived by suppression of Medicare…

This amendment, Mr. President, provides that any funds which were derived by the more aggressive attack on Medicare fraud would be returned to the Medicare trust fund. We are facing two interrelated challenges. One is combating the rampant…

Pay the current 25 percent. Those who are between 200 percent of poverty and $50,000 for an individual or $75,000 for a couple will pay the 31.5 percent, which had been the premium level for the first half of this decade. Those above the…

If there is a young person who, for whatever reason, missed school today and is sitting, listening to this debate, let me tell them why I think their country is in such debt and why I think the President's budget does not help a whole lot…

The second point is that the Medicaid Program requires a base of financing in order to meet its current needs and to be able to assume the new responsibilities which clearly lie just over the horizon. As the Senator from Massachusetts…