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it is important that my colleagues recognize two very important aspects of the legislation we are considering today. First, this legislation increases spending on Social Security and offsets that spending, in part, by using savings that…
let me just say, the vote just cast had nothing to do with minimum wage. It had everything to do with simply one provision dealing with Utah wilderness. There was no understanding with regard to this package, as the distinguished Senator…
In the earliest days of our Nation, George Washington said it was the duty of public servants to ``raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair.'' In his more than five decades as a public servant, Senator Edmund Muskie not…
First, let me commend the distinguished chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee for his work on this effort. He and I may not agree on the final product. We certainly may not agree on how we ought to enact farm policy in this country…
Today I want to commend the hard work, competitive spirit, and teamwork recently exhibited by thousands of young people across South Dakota during the State High School Boys' Basketball Tournament. Each year during late February and early…
for the last 2 days we have discussed the merits and shortcomings of the Public Rangelands Management Act. It is apparent that this is a complicated debate, riddled with hyperbole and misunderstanding. Let no one misunderstand, however…
passage of the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Act will mark an important milestone in our efforts to provide American business with reasonable, common sense regulatory relief. It is a bill that should be passed by Congress and sent to…
on behalf of the President, Senator Dole, Senator Hatfield, Senator McConnell, Senator Leahy, and I are offering an amendment to provide $50 million in antiterrorism assistance to Israel. All of us in the United States Senate have been…
Until we have all the facts, Congress must continue, as we have done since 1981, to give veterans the benefit of the doubt and provide them free health care for conditions potentially related to their exposure. The NAS is helping us…
during the past 3 weeks, several unfortunate events that threaten peace and stability around the world have occurred. In Israel and in the skies off the Cuban coast, innocent men, women, and children have lost their lives as a result of…
I would like to call to our colleagues' attention important new findings on the relationship between Agent Orange exposure and certain health conditions. Earlier today, the Institute of Medicine [IOM], which is part of the National Academy…
This is an unprecedented request. Everyone needs to be fully appreciative of the nature of what it is we are called upon to vote on here--an unprecedented request, an open-ended, unlimited request to continue this investigation forever if…
Today we resume debate on the five remaining fiscal 1996 appropriations bills. We are halfway through the fiscal year. We have had two Government shutdowns. Our country's priorities have suffered greatly. Education, in particular, has…
I am quite confident that if all we had to do was to consider the bill, after only a short period of time for debate and adoption of a managers' amendment to clarify some technical questions with the bill, we would then be in a position to…
Every American deplores the bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the past days. The Tel Aviv bombing was a senseless act of violence cynically targeted to hit as many innocent people as possible at a shopping mall on a school holiday…
That is an innovative characterization. I think the metaphor it represents is an accurate one. There is not much evidence of any real catch here. And that is really what the effort has been all about, to see if they can get a political…
I was not aware of them, but it goes to the point that we were making earlier, I say to the distinguished Senator from Arkansas, that there have been no hearings on health care, there have been no hearings on the economy and on jobs. There…
I read a comment just this morning that I think is so appropriate. It goes to the points raised by the Senator from Illinois and the Senator from Arkansas. Somebody said in the paper this morning, ``Welcome to the Federal Government. You…
And the record will show, I would say to the distinguished Senator from Maryland, that that is what happened in the Iran-Contra hearings. The investigation, I should say, by the independent counsel, went on and on for years following the…
Excuse me, $4 million on the Pillsbury investigation. They have now completed their work. As the Senator from Connecticut has indicated, they have recommended that there be nothing else done. They have completed their work, they have come…
First, I respond by saying I was not aware that $2 million had been spent on the Pillsbury investigation----
Congressman Henry Gonzalez just released the February 25, 1996, supplemental report to the Resolution Trust Corporation, entitled ``A Report on the Representation of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan by the Rose Law Firm.'' In releasing…
If the Senator will allow me to respond, Mr. President, the answer is absolutely yes. We decided last year that this had extraordinary political sensitivity. We understood last year that this would be a Presidential election year, and that…
Our intent--I think the intent of every Member when they voted on the authorization last year--was to maximize the opportunity that we get our work done, to do all we could to resolve what outstanding questions there were, and then to…
Both Senators make a very important point. In the face of tremendous evidence of obstruction of justice, that Congress decided that there were more important considerations. There has been no finding of wrongdoing in this case. So the…
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