it is important to view this amendment in the greater context of the current humanitarian situation in southern Sudan. The situation is dire, to say the least: the famine of last year took the lives of hundreds of thousands as flights of…

I rise today to honor the many outstanding teachers across the Nation and especially in my home State of Tennessee. In particular, I would like to highlight the achievements of Ms. Delise Teague, the 1999 Tennessee Teacher of the Year…

for a deliberative democracy, going to war is an agonizing task. It is a slow, cumbersome, sometimes combative process itself. It is discomforting to all. With regards to Kosovo, I understand the President's vision of what our world should…

as the sponsor of this critical education bill that we have before us, I would like to thank Senator Jeffords, who is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, for his hard work on this bill that began well…

I rise today to support the Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 1999. Technology transfer is a crucial link in the process that transforms research results into commercially viable products. The federal government's involvement in…

on March 4, 1999, Robert Lawrence Inman, or ``Coach Inman,'' as he was known to his friends--and everyone who ever met him was his friend--``slipped the surly bonds of earth,'' and, I am sure, passed into the waiting arms of his Lord and…

it is an exciting day because education in the United States is off to a fresh start. The underlying bill, which I am hopeful and confident will be passed later today, does something that previous bills out of this body did not do, and…

I believe that today has been almost a momentous day, and a very important day to set the stage, I believe, for the way, the manner, and the spirit in which I hope to see a lot of legislation be addressed over the coming months in the…

Hopefully, in a few minutes we will have word on some sort of final agreement as we move forward. I know we are making progress in terms of the negotiations. I hope we can advance this bill through the Senate. It is very disappointing that…

Let me make it clear, when I came to the floor there was nobody from the other side here, so that is one of the reasons I wanted to go ahead and use this opportunity to lay out where we are today. Let me take one more minute or so, because…

first, I commend the manager of the bill for an outstanding job. It has been now several days that we have been on a bill that to me is a very exciting bill, because we know, based on how it has been used in 12 States, that it is an…

The Ed-Flex bill is a simple bill, a straightforward bill, and a bipartisan bill. It was brought to the Senate floor last week in order to pass it through the Senate, have it pass through the House of Representatives, have it sent to the…

The point I end with, what we are hearing today is to have a new program put on the outside to address a population that we know is important. Look at the complexity of this on this chart, which my staff jokingly calls the spiderweb chart…

I have come back even more convinced we have a real obligation to pass this simple, direct bill that will be translated into improving education opportunities for people all across America. This bill--a simple bill--is a bill I brought to…

the bill we have been discussing for the last several days is a bipartisan bill entitled ``Ed-Flex.'' It really aims at a fundamental issue, I believe, which is how we improve education for our children, kindergarten through the 12th…

The great thing about this whole debate is that whether it is his intentions or my intentions or the intentions of the Senator from Oregon, it really is to address the fundamental issues of education, of really making sure that our…

clearly, we would like to get to the bill, and we can actually talk about what is in the bill. The bill has not been, as you know, introduced in the managers' package. And I hope that, although the morning hour has been reduced, we can get…

I would respond to my distinguished colleague from Minnesota, that if we could introduce the bill and discuss the bill before specific amendments--right now we have not had the opportunity because of these delaying tactics, which is what…

I have not seen the core requirements. I didn't hear what the core requirements are specifically. But if you would allow us to proceed to the bill at some point, at the appropriate time--right now, as you know, we have given the Senator…

we will be discussing two critical areas as we address the education of our youth in this country. Those two areas are flexibility and accountability. The issue that we will discuss is called Ed-Flex. Specifically, it is the Education…

I rise to explain my decision to convict President William Jefferson Clinton on two Articles of Impeachment charging him with High Crimes and Misdemeanors. I have heard from thousands of fellow Tennesseans during this trial, and their…

I rise to introduce the authorization bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002. NASA's unique mission of exploration, discovery, and innovation has preserved America's role as both a…

I rise to address the Senate today on the passage of the Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998. This bill reauthorizes the programs funded through Titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act. These programs are…

I am pleased to rise today before we adjourn the 105th Congress to acknowledge significant legislation addressing women's health needs in the United States. I originally introduced S. 1722, the ``Women's Health Research and Prevention…

the Medicare+Choice program was created as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to provide Medicare beneficiaries with high quality, cost effective options, in addition to the continuing option of traditional fee-for-service Medicare…