Mr. President--I rise today, along with my colleague Senator Dorgan from North Dakota, to introduce the Aviation Medical Assistance Act of 1998. Thirty years ago the first battery powered portable defibrillator was approved for use. A…

3 years of hard work, which was begun by Senator Nancy Kassebaum, have resulted in the passage of the conference report to the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 in the Senate today. This legislation represents the…

I rise today to defend two projects the President of the United States chose to veto in the military construction appropriations bill. The President claimed that three criteria had to be met for an item to be cut. First, the item was not…

The amendment is unnecessary. The amendment we are going to be voting on right now is unnecessary, and a little bit worrisome because if it were to pass, there is a possibility that we hurt the system. In other words, we disallow improved…

I oppose the offering of this proposal as an amendment to the FDA bill for that very reason. Comments have been made earlier about the importance of complementary and alternative medicine to the public and to this country, the importance…

if I just look at these letters from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Harry Jacobson in one sentence describes very well what his peers feel about Dr. Satcher. I quote from that letter. We believe Dr. Satcher is well qualified to…

today represents an enormous accomplishment for me and for the Republican Party. The budget agreement now before us is the culmination of years of hard work and concerted effort. I want to especially commend Chairmen Domenici and Roth for…

I rise today to reaffirm my support for the 1998-1999 Reauthorization of the Earthquake Hazard Reduction Act of 1977. I think we can all agree that the goal of the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program is a prime example of the…

Again, I would like to commend the chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee for the outstanding work he has done in shepherding through the committee and now, hopefully, later today bring to the floor an act which will modernize…

I would like to speak to a specific aspect of the bill that reflects, I think, the bipartisan spirit, the working together to the benefit of individual patients or future patients, to the benefit of children today, of hard-working men and…

I do wish to thank my colleague, the Senator from Kansas, for his efforts to accomplish what we all want to do, and that is to have NIST's ATP serve in the best way possible the public, using taxpayer dollars. And I, too, am very…

If the North American Corp. goes out of business it is my understanding that the Department of Defense would be forced to depend on less reliable foreign suppliers, probably in Mexico or Asia. Further, it is my understanding that there is…

I enjoin the conferees for the fiscal year 1998 national defense authorization bill to further consider this subject: commission on gender integration in the military.

That is correct, but as you know it is always difficult to adequately identify future requirements as the lifecycle of our many current programs is extended and especially in consideration of the emerging technologies where carbonizable…

The legislation before us, establishes a new Medicare Payment Review Commission to replace the Physician Payment Review Commission [PPRC] and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission [ProPAC]. The Medicare Payment Review Commission is…

I rise today to offer the 1998-99 Reauthorization of the Earthquake Hazard Reduction Act of 1977. This piece of legislation reauthorizes the agencies that are working to reduce earthquake hazards throughout the Nation. These four agencies…

One last myth goes like this. This procedure could possibly be the best procedure in a woman's situation for her health. In other words, now people realize and they didn't really a month ago or 6 months ago, and the President may not…

I rise briefly to make several comments and to review a little bit some of the myth that has surrounded the debate on our attempts to ban a brutal procedure, a procedure called the partial-birth abortion. It has been fascinating to watch…

This letter from Dr. Koop is dated May 13, 1997. It is a letter to me. It says the following: Dear Bill: It is never necessary to destroy a viable fetus in order to preserve the health of the mother. Although I can't think of an example…

In closing, I simply also urge opposition to the Daschle amendment and support for the underlying bill to ban partial-birth abortion. The Daschle amendment, although well-intended and with a good, strong effort to narrow the definition of…

in addition, the AMA task force entitled ``The Report of the Board of Trustees,'' convened on this very issue, concluded that ``There does not appear to be any identified situation in which intact D&X''--their attempt to coin a phrase the…

I rise very briefly to say that this bill is about education. This bill is about children. Today we have seen a real victory for the over 40 million individuals with disabilities in this country, but especially the 5 million children…

I oppose such an amendment. A statement was made that the underlying bill is leading us in the wrong direction and that this amendment would set us back in the right direction, at least in that one area of discipline. I disagree. In the…

President, I rise today to speak out for Americans on tax day--April 15. On this day more than any other, every American is reminded how much government costs--not just in actual dollars but in time and energy spent filling out forms…

earlier today the President of the United States announced that in his budget, which will be released on February 6, that he would aim to achieve approximately $138 billion in savings in the Medicare program. He described this as a first…