I rise just to put the Senate on notice that this is not the only alternative to the formula that we will have an opportunity to consider during the debate on the welfare reform bill. There will be other amendments that will be offered by…

My second amendment addresses the issue of unfunded mandates. In the spirit of S. 1, the first bill of this session that will seek to limit unfunded mandates in the future, a bill which was passed with bipartisan support and signed into…

In sum, our formula amendment would distribute funds under this bill on the basis of a State's number of children in poverty. The Graham-Bumpers Children's Fair Share proposal allocates funding based on the number of poor children in each…

I want to talk some about the structure of the welfare reform proposal that is before us and some concerns I have as to whether we are building a foundation on reality with steel and concrete, or a foundation of sand based on theory, hope…

The reality is that this bill which we are about to pass will be the grandfather of all unfunded mandates. We are going to be imposing significant new responsibilities on the States, without the resources to fund those responsibilities…

I continue the quote: Should Congress revisit this area and enact legislation, providing a clear indication that it intends States and localities to implement flow control, we will, of course, defer to that legislative judgment. So we have…

You are taking the position that we here in Washington have to be the ``big brother'' to protect 260 million Americans. I do not think that the county commissioners of Broward County, FL, or the city council of Providence, RI, are…

I thank you, Mr. President, and I thank Senator Chafee. This legislation in title II, which is the title to which my remarks will be directed, raises again the fundamental question that this Federal Government has dealt with throughout its…

I am going to describe in a moment the dilemma that a person like myself is in, because there clearly is an urgency to act for those 15 to 20 communities which had formed an alliance using flow control and committed themselves to these…

So we are here, Mr. President, making an important political judgment. We have the range of authority to deny totally flow control authority to anybody, including those communities which have already utilized it and, in reliance upon it…

I think, respectfully, that is not a proper reading of what the Supreme Court said in the Carbone case. I will just refer you to page 8 of the committee report which quotes the language of Justice O'Connor in which she states quite…

Justice O'Connor has stated it quite explicitly that we have that authority, and I am suggesting that prudence would lead us to a position that would say, let us exercise the authority that the Supreme Court has held that we can possess…

The first component of the announcement was that the United States would adopt a new policy relative to those detainees who are currently being held at the naval station at Guantanamo Bay. For some background, in the late summer and early…

there were some difficult decisions that had to be made around that core judgment. The result of the series of decisions will be: First that there will be no increase of total Cuban immigration into the United States, legal Cuban…

I picked a good time to come, did I not? I will try to get us out of this ditch here. I was on the Science Committee reluctantly, it is not one of my choices, but I am glad I am on it. I have really enjoyed it. The spirited debate here…

I first would like to commend our friend and colleague, the Senator from Arkansas, for another outstanding statement on a cause that he has led for many years, and I hope, I say to the Senator from Arkansas, that we are close to the time…

I would like to extend my very warm feelings for the service that Reverend Halverson has extended to me and to my colleagues. One of the challenges in life is to be able to approach it holistically. We tend to focus on that thing for which…

today with my colleagues Senators Mack, Lott, Bradley, Moseley-Braun, Hatch, and Grassley, I am introducing the Caribbean Basin Trade Security Act, a bill which will improve the economic and political security of the nations of the…

this is a happy day for my State of Florida. One hundred and fifty years ago today, March 3, 1845, President John Tyler signed legislation which this Senate had passed 2 days earlier making Florida the 27th State to join the Union. I am…

I was very intrigued by the gentleman from California's comments there. I think they are right on point, especially the comment from the constituent or the lay person that said if we ran our affairs like you do up here, we would be…

I believe the gentleman stated further that during that period of time the national defense sector spending has increased by 1300 percent.

last November the people of the 3rd District of South Carolina sent me to Washington in hopes of changing the direction of the country. My constituents expect me to display courage in making tough decisions. I will not let them down. I…

Would the gentleman agree with that tendency in place, the ability to spend far more than we make and it is escalating at monumental proportions, that if there ever was a time to have a three-fifths majority vote it is now, and could you…

I rise today to offer a technical, yet extremely important, amendment to S. 1. My amendment would require committees that choose to pay for their public sector legislative mandates to report as to "how the committee has created a mechanism…

I want to first reaffirm my support for the objectives to S. 1 and look forward to voting for it on final passage. Many of my colleagues have discussed at length the financial impact that mandates have on their individual States or…