The facts are as follows: There are 900,000 financial aid applications that are backlogged, and the article, Chronicle of Higher Education, the article entitled ``Sorting Out a Foul Up In Student Aid'' says the following. Student aid…

I am here to offer my enthusiastic support as an original cosponsor of Senator McCain's amendment. Mr. President, as a nation, we have always been able to come together in times of crisis--especially in times of war. Despite our sometimes…

the debate that we are having today focuses on the specific issue of community police. I would like, at a later point, to discuss some of my opinions and observations about this particular form of use of police personnel from a recent…

But let us look at the reason why we have spent so much money in the past. Why is Medicare growing at 4 times the private sector? We have increased spending over I think the next 7 years by 63 percent. A lot of money is going to be spent…

Right. The good news may be that Congress will not get paid, too. They may like that part of it, but they will not like the other parts, the Government they have come to rely on in the discretionary side of the budget. But let us talk a…

Let me give one option that would be put on the market if our bill passed. It is called a medical savings account and I am going to apply it to two people I know and love, my aunt and uncle. When my parents died, I was about 21, I had a…

Welfare as you know it, we want to change it. One key difference, President Clinton's welfare bill says you cannot stay on welfare for more than 60 consecutive months. You can get off for 1 month or 1 day, and have 60 more months waiting…

along those lines, President Clinton had a good quote. A good definition of insanity was doing everything the same and expecting different results. That would be crazy. If you do everything the same, it will probably turn out the same. The…

there is language within S. 652 which requires all must carry challenges filed with the FCC to be resolved within 120 days. Let me further state that broadcast stations are important sources of local news, public affairs programming, and…

a relationship, to work and survive, has got to be honest and we have got to deal with each other in good faith. For a government to govern well, we have to be honest and we have to deal with each other in good faith. The President has…

as a former Governor of Florida, where the tourism industry is the State's largest employer, I am amazed at the fact that an industry with such tremendous economic impact can continually be so under-appreciated and misunderstood. Travel…

the basic thrust of this amendment is to maintain the status quo and the rules of the game under which those people who are currently in the country as legal immigrants, playing by the rules as they were at the time they entered the…

I must say that I range between being somewhat offended by that description or concerned about our colleague's ability to read the English language because that is not what this does. The amendment retains the participation levels as…

the structure of this bill establishes objectives that States are to meet, particularly in the area of placement of people in work, 25 percent in 1996 rising to 50 percent in the year 2000. Those are laudable objectives. There are also…

the answer to that question allayed one of my principal concerns about this amendment, because in the original form, the form that was at the desk, there was no recognition of the children of persons who were in the country illegally in…

Does that mean that, for instance in the District of Columbia, they would get 11 times as much actual money for the reduction of illegitimacy as would, for instance, the State of Mississippi, since they get 11 times as much block grant per…

to conclude, we are about to set up what I think is a very unsafe situation: The Government fails to carry out its constitutional responsibility, and for the people who are illegally in communities across America, we are saying the Federal…

The principle? If the goal is to accomplish the objective, why could it not have been stated in an absolute amount as opposed to a percentage of a block grant, which is very different from State to State?

I wish I could be as sanguine as the Senator from Rhode Island. Having seen how many Senators voted to punish the poor children on an earlier vote, I cannot be so sanguine.

The second question: We had earlier debate about what happens if a State's allocation of Federal funds declines, what occurs to that State's continuing maintenance of effort? For instance, there is a very high probability that many States…

If for any reason--sanction or for other reason-- sufficient that we do not appropriate the full $17 billion in the year 2000 and States get less than is currently projected, if for that or any other reason--sanction, political, economic…

There had been concern about the definition under the original 75-percent maintenance of effort that it would have allowed, for instance, a State's contribution to Medicaid and Head Start programs to count toward maintenance of effort.

to close on this amendment, we have heard a lot about the phrase that ``we want to change welfare as we have known it'' and that it is a failed system. There are many citations as so what those failures are. If one of the objectives of the…

What is more related to need than to allocate funds for poor children based on where poor children are in the year you are going to distribute the money? What this amendment states is that the fundamental basis for allocating funds will be…

Mr. President, this evening with my colleague Senator Bumpers, we rise to offer an amendment to the pending amendment of Senator Dole which would dramatically affect the fairness of the funding allocations to the States under this…