Kay Bailey Hutchison

if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good, we are going to let a lot of people down who are in desperation right now. This is a good bill. I think the debate can be legitimately waged, but, please, at this late hour, as we are leaving…

amendment No. 3413 is to condition the use of appropriated funds for the purpose of an orderly and honorable reduction of U.S. ground forces in Bosnia. It is a fact that the U.S. Armed Forces have accomplished the military mission assigned…

I join my colleagues and our fellow citizens all across this country in honoring the memories of Detective John Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Chestnut. These two fine law enforcement officers gave their lives in the line of duty…

the OECD Development Center works to promote market-opening reforms in developing nations and has provided valuable research and resources to policy makers and analysts in developed nations and developing countries alike. the OECD…

I rise to explain a provision included in the Commerce, Justice, State appropriations bill manager's amendment and to convey my thanks to Senator Gregg and Senator Hollings for including it. This provision directs funding for the Student…

Mr. President, I commend Senator Hatch for his commitment to ensuring protection of private property rights as required by our Constitution and for trying to do everything we can to assure the private property provision of our Constitution…

I do admire the tenacity of the Senator from Arkansas, for he has tried 15 straight times to submarine the space station, in a mixed metaphor. But I do think the Senator is wrong. I think the Senate will rise above his arguments, which…

I think it is very clear from the recent debate that many of us do not consider that the exit strategy put forward, in response to our question, from the President is a serious exit strategy. It cannot be considered a serious exit…

I think when you look at these other potential necessary points of U.S. defense callings, we have to look at our budget, our defense dollars, our modernization, our technology and our will along with the morale of our troops, and we have…

Since we are on this point, I would like to add that the sentence above that, ``The exit strategy for U.S. forces engaged in such deployment,'' that is the question that was asked by Congress for the President to respond to. In response to…

I believe the Senate should act on legislation to address the problem of teen tobacco addiction, but am troubled by the tax and spend aspects of the legislation as it now stands. I support an approach that is closer to the agreement…

I want to talk about the tobacco bill in the context of where we started and where we are now. I was on the Commerce Committee, and although I thought the bill had flaws in the Commerce Committee, nevertheless there was a balance to the…

I understand the amount authorized under this section for the DART North-Central Light Rail Extension shall be no less than $188 million.

everyone agrees that children should not smoke. They do not have the maturity or judgment to understand the risks of their decision.

Where we differ is, how do we achieve this result? Forty States have now filed lawsuits to engage the tobacco industry in accepting the responsibility for its actions. Recent evidence demonstrates tobacco companies targeted children in…

It is clear that the greatest security threat the United States faces today is that we do not have a defense for incoming ballistic missiles. In fact, if you look back at the latest war that we have had, the gulf war, the largest number of…

Mr. President, as the senior Senator from West Virginia has stated, our bill will begin the orderly and honorable withdrawal of U.S. ground forces from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. U.S. forces in Bosnia have accomplished the…

I believe this Senate will not vote on a more important matter than the one before the Senate this week. The advocates of unfettered enlargement of NATO argue that we are expanding the frontiers of freedom in Europe. It is true that…

I just say to my friend from Oregon, we left Bosnia to the United Nations. If we had the ability to have something in place by which we could have had a process long before Dayton to discuss these issues and perhaps bring them to the table…

But now the United States of America is paying the lion's share and our troops are in harm's way in Bosnia, if the President has his way, in perpetuity. Is that the answer you want for every ethnic dispute that can occur for the next…

Mr. President, I have now heard from the Senator from Delaware and the Senator from California that the 11 disputes which have been put together by the Congressional Research Service have no relation to what we are doing today. And yet the…

I hope he wouldn't put forth an idea that he thought was a bad idea. What I hope is that he would lay out the issue for discussion, and if the result is not something that the United States thinks is the best result, after everyone has had…

I would like to try to answer that because what we are trying to do is not have it come up to NAC but to have border disputes and a process that everyone has agreed to, and if anyone doesn't agree, including us, it wouldn't go into effect…

On Bosnia, what we did is take it to the whole council, and everybody got involved.

Is have an option that they would be able to go way below the level of the North Atlantic Council, where they could go into a dispute resolution process, something that would be devised by the council, and if somebody on the council didn't…