If I may say, Mr. President, it is that first word, ``notwithstanding''--one of those magical words that resonates in this Chamber to signal this law is being changed, this formula is being changed. If you did not have this provision in…

my colleague from Montana is correct. I see my good friend from New Jersey standing. Why don't I ask him: Would not the result of what you are requesting be simply asking the Senate to go up the hill on rule XVI, turn around, and run down…

I understand the need to adequately address arts funding and commend the Chairman's leadership in securing $500,000 above last year's appropriations for our nation's museums and libraries. However, this is still $500,000 short of the House…

I thank Chairman Cochran for his attention to this issue. This is an important matter that is critical to ensuring that the federal government can attract and retain qualified professionals in federal service. At this time I will withdraw…

with a deep sense of humility, I believe the Senate should close its proceedings today by paying our profound and deepest respect to the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States of America and their comrades in arms from 18…

this afternoon, the Senate Armed Services Committee reported out favorably the nominations of General Shinseki and General Jones, and I anticipate tomorrow the Senate will move on those nominations. As chairman, I designated Senator…

I will simply reply to my good friend, only four times in the history of the United States of America has Congress used that phrase, ``declare war.'' World War II is the last; am I not correct?

I was the author of that resolution. I say to the Senator from Delaware and the Senator from Arizona, there is a clear distinction in that case. There the President of the United States asked the Congress; am I not correct? Did he not ask…

I am likewise concerned about consultation. The Senate and the House--the Congress--work very hard with this President, as they have with other Presidents, to get consultation on these key questions of our national security and foreign…

How many times did we send out our troops? Are we suggesting each time, whether it was Vietnam in particular or Korea, that that wasn't the proper authority exercised by the President of the United States? You suggest that, I say to the…

while I have the Senator's attention, though, he said--very interesting--I don't want to breach confidences, but he and I have been present at three very important consultations with the President of the United States.

I do so with a heavy conscience, because I have no better friend, nor a man I respect more, than my good friend, the Senator from Arizona. I want to ask both of you, on the condition you answer on your time, a very simple question: What…

The White House, the National Security Adviser, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State are now frantically lobbying against this resolution, who are saying vote to table. Has my colleague ever heard of a time where the White House…

Because I thought we were making a point, at least I felt very strongly, the President gave the assurances. And you said the way to settle this--and you wanted it for the House, the letter was sufficient for the House--why wouldn't this…

I simply say, with great respect to both you and Senator McCain, this does not grant the President of the United States one single bit of authority that he does not possess at this moment and that every President of the United States has…

our nation has lost a truly great American in the recent passing of Admiral Roy Lee Johnson, USN (Ret.), who died March 20th in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the age of 93. My Senate colleagues should know that he was the father of Jo-Anne…

I address the Senate today because I have done my very best as one Senator to bring this to the attention of our President, and hopefully, through this floor speech, to the attention of the other heads of state and government who will come…

If the Senator would allow me to make one clarification to your statement. I want to make it clear I said I served with others who were in combat. I was a ground officer who helped strap them in, who checked their radios and their…

I do believe it is essential to this Senate to pass on the Smith amendment... Do we or do we not support the use of force by the U.S. military together with our allies in this frightful situation in Kosovo?

Again, we all draw on our experiences in life. I served overseas in Korea with an air unit, as a combat officer, I might say. Right now, I am trying to put myself--and I hope my colleagues put themselves--into a cockpit and we are strapped…

I wish to remind my colleague that we had, in the course of that debate on expansion in the same time period, led the way for Russia to begin to work with NATO, and while it wasn't a formalized treaty as such, it was a very interesting and…

my recollection is that this had been going on for at least 2 years. Whether you caption it as informal versus today being formal, we will have to look at the record, but this has been going on for 2 years without any real, I think…

The administration should begin to pick its fights with the Congress on foreign policy issues. This is one that should have been reconciled some time back, quietly, and acknowledging that it was in the interests of the United States to…

I am talking about, Mr. President, the negotiations between the administration and Russia on such modifications as we felt were necessary for various aspects of our missile defense program.

Mr. President, I want to support this proposal to reauthorize the aviation improvement fund for 2 additional months. The Aviation Improvement Program is the Federal program that provides much-needed grants to airports throughout the…