we should take a minute to examine exactly what the Senate has done today in passing both the amendments offered by the distinguished majority and minority leaders. The amendments offer a rather different approach to the question of…

I hope that in conference every effort will be made to tie this language down to mean weapons or equipment only, and to exclude manpower in any way.

The courts are increasingly looking to the four corners of the law, rather than to legislative history as expressed on the Senate floor. I know the majority leader's intentions are what he said they were, namely, that this term…

I am compelled to express my serious reservations with regard to President Clinton's decision to change the procedures for processing Haitian refugees. I have supported the existing policy of intercepting at sea and returning would-be…

However, in this particular instance, I voted against the bill when it passed the Senate. I do not believe that I stated my reasons for objecting to it on that occasion. Therefore, I am opposed to the conference report. There will be no…

for centuries, an ability to read has been regarded as a sine qua non of civilized life, and, more recently, as the entry-level ticket to a higher living standard and the minimal prerequisite to advancement in the workplace. In recognition…

Mr. President, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of the Navy, have all maintained that the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Frank Kelso, should be allowed to retire as a four-star…

more than four decades ago, a young 14-year-old boy arrived in Washington, DC, from Florida. He came here to serve as a Senate page under the patronage of the late colleague and friend of some of us who are still here, Senator Spessard…

I thank the Senator for his kind felicitations. The aisle, may I say, separates us. But friendship is not separated by an aisle, and he and I do not always vote together, as no other Senator and I vote together always. But there are many…

I call attention to an historic moment that the Senate experienced today. Twenty-five years ago today--on April 14, 1969--our friend and colleague, the Senate Republican leader, Senator Robert Dole, delivered his maiden speech to the…

Mr. President, the legislation before the Senate today proposes to set aside more than 6.6 million acres of land in California as wilderness or national parks. The objective of the legislation is to protect the desert ecosystem of southern…

The Administration supports the payment in lieu of taxes (PILT) program to compensate units of local governments of losses to their real property tax base due to Federal lands within their boundaries. The Administration, however, cannot…

we have now come to the time of year ``when well-apparel'd April on the heel of limping winter treads.'' The flowers of April are in bloom, and so is authorizing fever. The trouble is that it is difficult for a limping Federal budget to…

Winter tames man, woman, and beast,'' but Robert Browning has announced the good news: The year's at the spring. And the day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn…

the Senate has confirmed Mr. Michael Walker, who resides near Charles Town, WV, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army. I was pleased to see that President Clinton nominated Mike Walker to become Assistant Secretary of the Army and I…

for many Americans, Washington is a nucleus of Byzantine plots and national political legerdemain, of scenarios hatched in smoke-filled rooms and of sinister conspiracies nightmared to life behind closed doors. Be that as it may…

from time to time in my daily life, I am privileged to encounter a man or woman who renders exceptional service in his or her work, who seems to have discovered in his or her work a special calling, who feels that no respectable job is…

on yesterday I spoke about the history of our English forebears and about the various parallels that exist between our own written Constitution and the unwritten English constitution. There are those who undoubtedly feel that it is…

the Scriptures instructed that, ``A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.'' I trust that it would be fitting for me to speak just a very few words to congratulate those Senators who voted against the amendment…

the power of the purse is no accident, and its inclusion in the Constitution of the United States is not there by chance. The British constitution, which is an unwritten constitution, except for certain documents and statutes and cases in…

I have observed on many occasions that she has taken a path and chosen the unpopular approach and voted her convictions--after very careful study. I have noted that she reaches her decisions in matters of this kind after the most careful…

I congratulate the majority leader on this agreement. I should state that those of us who oppose the Simon amendment gave up some of our rights, as did those who support it, but I think that this is the best conclusion. I think it will…

the majority leader has hit the nail right on the head. By extending this date, no Senator in here who supports the amendment will have the absolute assurance that he will be here to give an accounting for what has transpired as a result…

I have often wondered how Shakespeare could have come to know and understand human nature as well as he obviously did, probably more so than any other man--any man other than Jesus Christ--who ever walked this planet; and how he came to…