Orrin Hatch

Realistically, in this real world, if law enforcement wants to get a wiretap, whether emergency or otherwise, it is going to be able to get it. That has been my experience and I think it has been the experience of every prosecutor, I…

I must add, I support the provision, which is known as the Nunn-Thurmond provision, in the Senate bill. Americans have always been suspicious of using the military in domestic law enforcement, and rightly so.

In true emergency situations the President has full authority to resolve those and use the military if he wants to. The reason the President would want us to put posse comitatus language in there is because it takes him off the hook. The…

Let me add in closing that this earmark would be applied against the crime control block grant. We think it is about time we do this. I also mention for the record that the chairman and ranking member of the D.C. Appropriations Committee…

No. What we are agreeing to in the colloquy is that in the future 1997 budget and appropriations bills we try to find the money to be able to do this law enforcement work, and my colleagues have said they will work with me.

CLEAA is what we call carrier compliance under the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act. It is to aid our law enforcement agencies to be able to do their work with regard to the new digital age, to be able, with court orders…

I am prepared to offer an amendment to establish a fund in the U.S. Treasury to serve as a funding source for carrier compliance under the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act. I understand the concern that is shared by some…

I want to personally pay my deep and utmost respects to him and to his family, wish them well, and express my sympathy to them. This was a very, very great man. He not only was great in one genre but he was great in all musical genres and…

If the leaders will help us move the bill, and the leaders will help call it up, I think we could do it in 10 minutes, because I think we can make more than an adequate case. It is a smart thing to do for the American people. It is hard to…

If you will hold hearings and if we can make a case that this is beneficial--I have no doubt in my mind we will make that case-- if you will hold a hearing on this specific issue on a bill that we will file, and if we make the case you…

I cannot see for the life of me why this adds anything to the cost of food stamps. It just says that instead of buying pop, you might buy vitamins and minerals.

I concur in Senator Grassley's analysis of the actions taken by the Appropriations Committee regarding race and gender bias studies. I rise to add that these studies have been ill-conceived, deeply flawed and divisive. In my view, they…

That is an appropriate amount, in my judgment. The DARE program will also be eligible, I believe, to receive block grant funding under provisions of the Neighborhood Safety Act. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank my…

If leaders would withhold for a second, I think that the settlement on child care is utterly reasonable, something that can bring us together. I commend both leaders for trying to bring this about. It is my understanding that the Hatch…

It is not. Neither will the Senator's amendment be, but it still is an entitlement program, and we need to stop doing entitlements. Let me make my point.

If I go to page 40, amending section requirements and limitations and put this in between lines 16 and 17, the Senator provides for an entitlement. It seems to me the Senator provides for a means whereby people can bring litigation if they…

As I read it, it does; it is the failure of the State to provide work-related activity. The amendment reads: The limitation described in paragraph (1) shall not apply to a family receiving assistance under this part if the State fails to…

Congress finds that-- (1) nearly 500,000 children are in foster care in the United States; (2) tens of thousands of children in foster care are waiting for adoption; (3) 2 years and 8 months is the median length of time that children wait…

It appears that we cannot get the Hutchison amendment completed and negotiated in a way that is satisfactory to both sides. It is my understanding that the distinguished Senator from Texas is prepared to go to a vote on the amendment. I…

Could I also ask the minority, since we have been accepting amendments over here and I understand there is really no logical or real objection to the Snowe bottled water amendment, I think we ought to get that accepted and move it through.

We respectfully disagree. We think they are true, and they come from real, down-home, real-life Americans.

May I respond to the distinguished Senator? We have looked at that and we understand there are people on his side that do not like some of those suggestions. There are certainly a lot of people on our side. So what we have been trying to…

I am not sure from the discussion of the distinguished Senator from Louisiana that is so, because as I recall the Coverdell amendment just mentioned entities of small businesses. But we will check on it. Be that as it may, the House has…

If I could respond, we are, as far as I am concerned, going to continue ongoing negotiations and keep the door open to do what we can to resolve these problems. On many of the points that were raised, I thought the Senator from Michigan…

I think this is just another illustration of how we have been trying to work together to try to resolve any conflicts on this bill. There have been over a hundred changes in the bill that we have done through our negotiations with…