James Sasser: “A working family of four making $16,000 a year would get no credit under this plan. Is that not correct?”

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…

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

You have a paranoid, isolated, dangerous state now on the verge of possessing nuclear weapons.

We restored in the Budget Committee 70 percent of the President's cut of the so-called low-income home energy assistance, and we also tried to increase funding for prenatal care. The thrust of this amendment offered by the Senator from…