Lloyd Bentsen: “Bentsen spoke approvingly.”

I rise in support of H.R. 2500, legislation to fund the Departments of Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002. Though the measure calls for a reduction to the highly successful COPS community policing program, I…

the underlying bill is not perfect, and I do not think the substitute is necessarily perfect, but there are certain pieces of the substitute that I think would make the underlying bill better. Number one, the substitute is stronger on the…

Enron, Global Crossing, the restatements at Xerox, Sunbeam and others are part of the corporate excesses that have occurred as a result of the exuberant nineties. The bill before us today, I believe, is a good start but, as I said earlier…

after 6 years on the Committee on the Budget, I am amazed at the debate I have heard tonight. I did not realize just how powerful that committee is. In the 6 years I have been on that committee, I have seen Members of the other party in…