Kay Bailey Hutchison

I rise in support of Alan Greenspan's nomination as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Many years from now, historians may look at the Clinton Presidency and say that the best decision he made in office was to keep Alan Greenspan at…

I have heard the most amazing rhetoric on the other side. I am told by my colleague from Minnesota we have cut all the increases the Senate put in this bill. What is wrong is the facts. We haven't cut the increases. In fact, we haven't cut…

I want to end this session of this week by once again remembering our colleague, John Chafee. We started this week, Monday morning, with the tragic news of the passing of clearly one of the most beloved of all Senators sitting in this…

This bill marks, for the first time in 30 years, that we will pass all of our spending bills, and there will be no raid on the Social Security trust funds. The Social Security trust funds will be left intact so that people who have paid in…

In fact, I would like to point out that, of the roughly $1.8 billion that Texas is spending during the present budget biennium, virtually every dollar is going toward health care. For example, the state is allocating over $200 million for…

In fact, I think it should be pointed out for the Record that, on March 18 of this year, the Senate voted 71 to 29 to protect our States' settlement funds by defeating an amendment that would have directed that states spend at least half…

I submit for the Record the very people who are affected are from the home State of the Senator from California, the small producers, the independents who do not have the luxury of big margins. They are very much affected and very…

I appreciate so much the explanation of the Senator from Louisiana because he is getting to the real point. This chart shows what the MMS is proposing to do under the new rule. As the Senator from Louisiana said, the mandate to MMS was to…

I do want to address some of the issues and some of the facts that were misstated by the Senator from California because I think it is very important that the Record be set straight. I attempted to correct the Senator from California while…

I will not object, as long as the Record also shows the CBO has said $11 million and that assumes people are not going to go out of business.

I do want the Senator to be able to enter her documents in the Record, but I want to also have entered in the Record that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated it would be $11 million. That would be the cost to the taxpayers; that…

I offer this amendment on my behalf, and in addition to Senator Shelby, Senators Domenici, Lott, Nickles, Breaux, Murkowski, and Landrieu. This amendment will continue an existing provision that will prevent the Interior Department's…

before I leave, I want to take a moment to also talk about one other issue. That is the issue of what is happening in Indonesia. All of us have seen atrocities and read of atrocities in many parts of the world--most recently in Indonesia…

this shows there would be a proposed difference in income of $11 million. In addition to putting that in the Record, I want to say that we have offset that $11 million. I have to say I think it is ludicrous that you would say we think that…

I wish to thank profusely the staff who have worked so hard on this bill. As Senator Byrd said earlier, this takes a lot of time, because there are a lot of issues that are affected by this bill. I want to thank Mary Beth Nethercutt on the…

I wish to make a comment about Reverend Lyons, who just opened our Senate session with a prayer, because he is a very special person to me and to the State of Texas and really to all Americans. A little over a year ago, a heinous crime was…

I hope we will be able to allocate the $50 million in the Kyl-Hutchison amendment for the hiring of new Customs agents. We have a terrible situation. I understand the position of Senator Campbell and Senator Reid in having to allocate this…

I am pleased to bring to the Senate floor the bill making appropriations for the government of the District of Colombia for fiscal year 2000. This bill is largely the result of the cooperation between Mayor Williams, the city council, and…

I have listened to Senator Durbin's arguments on his amendment, and I have to say I am pleased that he is withdrawing the amendment, because I think his amendment is absolutely flat wrong. Let's talk about what would give kids a chance in…

I think the Senator from Illinois has a very good sense of the Senate. I think having benchmarks and accountability we can look at next year is very appropriate. I commend him for caring about these crime issues and the issues that we all…

I have been able to visit Azerbaijan. I was there at the same time as the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee. He knows this issue very well. I look at this a different way. I talked to the President of Azerbaijan while I was in his…

I am against this resolution. I am not against it procedurally; I am against it on the merits. I respect everyone who is on either side of this issue, and I think we need to have the debate. I think we need to take an action that would…

I want to speak to a resolution that has been introduced this morning regarding Congress taking an action about our troops in Kosovo and the whole escalation of the operation in Kosovo. The text of the resolution is that we would give the…

I believe everyone knows that today is tax day in America. I think we have been talking about it. And I think it is very appropriate that we have a budget resolution on the floor today that we can say will give tax relief because that is…

I just say to the Senator from North Dakota that I understand the concern about timing. And I could not agree with him more about the timing. But I will just point out that the amendment I offered was actually offered early last week as an…