Kay Bailey Hutchison

Yesterday, we adopted an amendment that could be interpreted to endorse NATO's role in responding to ethnic or religious disputes. If it is legitimate that NATO be involved in ethnic or religious disputes, why would it not be equally…

nothing that the Senator from Delaware has said would be prevented from happening. People could certainly go into a room and settle a dispute. What we are trying to do----

I like every other part of the amendment. But it seems that the words define what a common threat is, and included in the common threat are ethnic divisions or uprising, and then it says that one of the missions of NATO is to respond to…

technology has opened many doors for communications and information sharing. Unfortunately, criminals have found new ways to use the innovations to hurt children. Today I am introducing with Senator DeWine the Child Protection and Sexual…

I thank Senator Torricelli very much for his statement and for his very important question. States, school districts, and individual public schools all over the country have either tried to implement same-gender programs and have been…

As you know, in that case the Supreme Court struck down the state-supported VMI because the state of Virginia failed to, quote ``provide any comparable single-gender women's instituion.'' My amendment follows the Supreme Court's own…

I think the Senate's strong 69 to 29 vote in favor of this amendment sent a strong signal that same-gender education should be made available as an option to parents and their children enrolled in public schools.

my amendment offers the opportunity, the option to local school districts and parents to choose single-sex classrooms or schools if there are comparable opportunities for both sexes. ``Comparable'' is the word used by the Department of…

My amendment simply seeks to give the opportunity to public schools what private schools can now do, and that is offer an option of same-gender classes or schools. I seek to amend the allowable uses of title VI funds for education reform…

American ports and carriers and shippers are disadvantaged by current laws that require all contracts to be public. To avoid publication, U.S. ports are bypassed when possible and the U.S. carriers lose business. U.S. exporters, unlike…

a healthy domestic energy industry is critical to our nation's security and our economic well-being. That is why I am pleased today to introduce the U.S. Energy Economic Growth Act. My legislation provides much needed tax relief for the…

this is what my amendment does. It is a sense of the Senate that this resolution assumes that any budget surplus should be dedicated to debt reduction or direct tax relief for hard-working American families. It is really quite simple. This…

This is a budget that will set our spending priorities. What my amendment says is there are only two responsible ways to spend any future surpluses: to pay down the debt, to save Social Security; or to give tax relief to the hard-working…

I would love to address that issue. It is a valid point. We will not take away the break that a couple has in the one-income-earner family; that is, where people are ahead if they have one income in the family, they get a break on taxes…

This is the Faircloth-Hutchison amendment and it is also the Faircloth-Hutchison bill that would eliminate the marriage penalty tax. All this amendment says is, it is a priority of Congress to eliminate the marriage penalty tax. We don't…

Mr. President, the question is not whether we are winning the war on drugs. If that were the question, the answer would be no, and everybody who has spoken would be in agreement. The question is, What is our best strategy to win the war…

I want to talk about what my amendment does. It expresses the sense of Congress that the President and Congress should create the conditions for withdrawal of U.S. ground combat forces from the NATO-led stabilization force in Bosnia. What…

I so appreciate the great leadership of the Senator from West Virginia. He understands better than any Member of this body the role of Congress in sending our troops into foreign conflicts or into harm's way anywhere overseas. He…

I rise today to say that we have taken, or are in the process of taking, one major step toward more tax relief for the hard-working American family. The budget resolution, which is being marked up as we speak right now, will allow for $30…

Today Senator Rod Grams and I are introducing the half-and-half bill. We like to say half-and-half is more than just rich milk. We want to have the plan in place so if we, in fact, have a surplus, we will start doing the responsible thing…

just to sum up. I think the Hutchison- Grams-Ashcroft half and half bill is sound policy. It is a responsible approach. If we, indeed, have worked hard and cut the deficits and will go toward a balanced budget even sooner than we thought…

As we have opened our trade with Mexico, it has caused a huge congestion on the NAFTA corridors that come through my State but also through other States that are on the border and also up into the rest of our country. I am very pleased you…

I commend my fellow Senator, my colleague from Texas, Senator Gramm, for working with Senator Byrd in what I think is a very important accomplishment not just for my State but for all Americans. Many of us feel that our transportation…

I'd like to join my colleagues in commending the industry representatives for their efforts in crafting the modifications which have allowed them to join together in support of ocean shipping reform. The scope of industry support is…

I appreciate very much the leadership that Senator Lott has provided in the ongoing discussions that we have had in Congress on the situation with Iraq. I was very pleased that in the 2 weeks previous to this, when the President came to…