I hope that Senators, in voting, will review this list so that each Senator may see precisely how much moneys will be rescinded from his State's projects before he votes.

These projects constitute infrastructure. They represent jobs. They are beneficial to the States and the Nation. They are good from the standpoint of national defense. Those Senators who voted against the Senator's amendment were voting in…

Senator McCain's amendment would take away from States over $1.7 billion in funds provided through the ISTEA legislation and another $488 million which has been provided to States through annual appropriations. The $1.7 billion proposed…

the Senate Appropriations Committee bill includes $12.4 billion in requested funds to pay the cost of converting thousands of computer tapes to a readable format. This expense is in response to numerous Federal court orders and appellate…

I hope the Senate will not support that amendment by Mr. Durenberger. It is an attempt to set up a procedure whereby the executive branch would reserve in the disaster relief fund an amount they determine would be necessary to fund the…

both the distinguished Senator from Ohio [Mr. Metzenbaum] and the distinguished Senator from New York [Mr. D'Amato] know that for them ``my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.'' But I am not quite in a position to…

May I say to my friend from Virginia, Mr. Warner--and he is my friend and he is a very distinguished Senator--I should think that this would be one of the things that the task force would want to consider, and its recommendations would…

Is the Senator going to use that example again of Jefferson's saying that he was opposed to the Federal Government's going into debt for an investment of that nature when the debt would have to be paid off by another generation?

if the Senator is going to use it, will he also say that Jefferson went into debt for the Louisiana Purchase and that Jefferson admitted that he was embarrassed by having said one thing and done another?

this amendment should be taken very seriously by all Senators. Its authors claim that its adoption will produce in excess of $94 billion in budget savings over the next 5 years. I hope to convince my colleagues that, despite the zeal and…

How did my friend from Colorado, Mr. Brown, vote on the reconciliation bill which reduced the budget over a period of 5 years, by somewhere between $450 billion to $500 billion. How did my friend vote on that? There was his chance to cut.

You do not need to reconsider something 95 to nothing. Not that many are going to change.

I intend to make the motion to table, and I do not want to vote on that motion at the present time because I want to accommodate the leaders on both sides who have been called down to the White House and cannot return until 6:30. I want to…

I thank the Chair. Madam President, as I pointed out earlier in my opposition to this amendment, a large amount of the claimed saving simply does not exist; $26.7 billion claimed as savings from cuts in the Federal work force have already…

on the question of fairness, this Senator spent most of the afternoon listening to the arguments of the authors of the amendment. It is not a question of fairness. This rule on the motion to table has been incorporated in the Senate rules…

Before responding to the Senator's question it would be useful to understand the statutory basis for providing such assistance.

H.R. 3759 contains four titles. For title I, the committee recommends emergency disaster assistance and other emergency funding totaling just over $10 billion. The vast majority of these funds are to provide disaster assistance to the…

Of course. My people in West Virginia are asking the same questions the people from Virginia are asking the Senator from Virginia.

my friend from Florida says that each generation should be prepared to pay its own bills. That sounds good, and why should not one subscribe to that? I do not believe that the Senator really means that, under all circumstances, such a rule…

Would the distinguished Senator tell me why Jefferson's position was as the Senator stated and yet, in 1803, Jefferson promoted the Louisiana Purchase, which amounted to $15 million in those days, and which money the U.S. Government had to…

As the Senator may know, the Appropriation for Unanticipated Needs is available for the Los Angeles Earthquake and ``other disasters.'' Given the conditions you have outlined, which do sound quite severe, it would appear that Federal…

from time to time here on the Senate floor, I have decried declining standards of education in our society, sliding levels of literacy among increasing numbers of our citizens, and a disturbing spread of inaccurate and undisciplined…

over the past several years the Congress has become increasingly interested in the distribution of costs for the collective defense of the United States and its allies. Much of that interest has been generated by the efforts of the…

I commend the Senator from South Dakota for his leadership on this issue. The Senator is on exactly the right track with his efforts. The United Nations needs the oversight of its budget and programs that would be provided by an office of…