I think we have become all too accustomed, in the debates dealing with the budget in recent years, to hearing claims that are exaggerated, partial statements of the facts, and on occasion outright misstatements of facts. Yesterday's…

I will just move on quickly and say that the budget before us is a solid work product. It is a necessary continuation of last year's very successful and, I would say, historic deficit-reduction plan. It contains $13 billion in cuts below…

My thanks are to Senator Boxer for her tireless efforts on behalf of these children's programs. The Budget Committee, as well as America's children, have been well served by her participation in this year's budget process.

I am pleased the conference committee agreed to fully fund this program in the conference report. This program is important and does deserve full funding. And I thank Senator Gorton and Senator Harkin for their efforts with respect to this…

Mr. President, the eminent British statesman Edmund Burke wrote once that, ``All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded upon compromise and barter.'' Now, the conference report…

I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Senator from California for the really marvelous work she has done in bringing the Senate's attention to the children's initiative and the problems of children in this country through…

this is the second truly honest budget that this Chamber has seen in 12 years. In the times of David Stockman and in the times of Richard Darman, of course there was no growth in the deficit in the outyears--although we all knew it was…

I rise today to recognize Robert F. Hale, who, after 17 years of commendable service at the Congressional Budget Office, has recently been nominated and confirmed by the Senate for the position of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for…

Yes, Madam President. The changes made by the committee will be a significant improvement to Federal bankruptcy law, and will provide creditors with sufficient time to perfect their security interest. Since the Senate is addressing the…

It is my understanding, that every appellate circuit that has examined this issue has held that State laws that allow the timing of perfection to ``relate back'' to an earlier date are consistent with and not in conflict with Federal…

Yes indeed, Madam President. That would be my view also. The ``relation back'' provision merely relates to determining when a security interest in a motor vehicle is perfected in accordance with State law. Clarifying that ``relation back''…

On April 15, the Congress will lose a valued resource because that day marks the retirement of Charles E. Seagrave of the Congressional Budget Office. For more than 15 years, Chuck has been the chief of the human resources cost estimating…

I commend the distinguished Senator from New Jersey for offering this very worthwhile amendment. We held hearings in the Senate Budget Committee last year on the whole question of tax expenditures and how very costly many of these tax…

the Senator from Texas, in the amendment that he offered here this afternoon, beginning at about 2:30 in the afternoon, seeks to eliminate every one of the President's initiatives, every single one of them, and he adds an $87 billion cut…

I share the distinguished chairman of the Agriculture Committee's enthusiasm for the WIC Program. I would point out that the budget resolution as reported by the Budget Committee included $3.6 billion for this program, an 11 percent…

I do not think this amendment is really something we can expect very much from. We have heard proposal after proposal in this body over the years that Congress give up its responsibility, give up our duty, give up ways to giving up finding…

I have just a couple of comments. Again, with regard to the whole question here of forming a commission to recommend savings to Congress, one of the problems we have in Government now is that we have too many commissions. The cost of these…

That is a quick overview of the tax changes. Let us see what is happening on the spending side. I am sorry to say, the picture gets worse. It deteriorates even more. The fact is, this plan pays for its tax breaks by taking away health care…

Mr. President, to sum up, in essence what this Republican alternative does to the majority budget, it simply cuts taxes, reduces revenues, and the principal tax cuts are the time-honored capital gains tax cut which we know from past…

It has been suggested here on the floor that there are no provisions for health care or welfare reform in the budget being presented here by the majority. There are no provisions in the alternative before us either. In both versions they…

But it would not be effective really in safeguarding the discretionary spending from being raided.

Now, I say to my colleagues, we are spending in fiscal year 1995 at below discretionary levels, fiscal year 1994. And what I was pointing out there in that debate in the Budget Committee is that we are spending less in discretionary…

The alleged protection that the Senator from Mississippi seeks to impose for defense spending here applies only to the incremental cut, the Grassley-Exon cut, and that is all. I know this is somewhat confusing, but as I read this…

But the truth is, they constructed this problem for themselves, and they constructed it by moving ahead in the face of assertions that if you do this, military spending is going to take 75 percent of the cuts. But they went ahead and did…