I am delighted that the majority leader has decided to take up the nomination of Robert W. Pratt to be a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. Mr. Pratt is a well-qualified nominee. We first received Robert Pratt's…

I am delighted that the majority leader has decided to take up the nomination of Jeffrey T. Miller to be a U.S. district court judge for the southern district of California. Judge Miller is a well-qualified nominee. The Judiciary Committee…

I want to compliment him, the Democratic leader, the chairman of the committee, Senator Biden, Senator Kyl, and their staffs, who worked with me and my staff and others throughout this week, sometimes until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning…

So the author of the bill intends for there to be increased expansion into rural activities by the Boys and Girls Clubs even beyond the almost 20 percent expended in the first year in rural areas?

I join in supporting S. 476 to provide authority to expand Boys and Girls Clubs across the country, including both urban and rural areas. Most important to me, the revised language should serve to expand the availability of Boys and Girls…

Like my colleagues, I too support the expansion of Boys and Girls Clubs. I would like to ask the author of this legislation, its principal sponsor and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, whether I am correct that this bill should…

We actually did better with district court judges with the Democrats in charge than President Reagan did at the end of his first term with the Republicans in charge.

I note that over the past 2 weeks I have twice corrected a misstatement with respect to the three nominations pending on the Senate executive calendar. Twice, Republicans have said that some unknown Democrat had a hold on these judicial…

Let us bring the nomination up. The irony is, you know and I know, with her qualifications, anybody would be embarrassed to vote against her because there would be no way they could explain back home how a woman, one of the most qualified…

I have spoken on the floor many times about the judicial vacancies in our Federal courts. It concerns me. In fact, I believe other than the subject of antipersonnel landmines, I have probably spoken on this subject more than any other. I…

The Senator is not only correct, but I would ask him to contrast that with the last year of the Bush administration with a Democratic-controlled Senate and the difference in the cooperation of the Democrats with a Republican President than…

My requests that she be called up for a vote before the committee was rejected, and she remains in limbo almost 2 months after her second confirmation hearing and one full year after she was first nominated. There is now what amounts to a…

there are some individuals whose personal courage is almost impossible to fathom, who will be long remembered for the example they set in standing up for what they believed for the sake of all of us. Wei Jingsheng, who is perhaps China's…

But this May has been unseasonably cold, and got a little colder earlier this week when Vermont lost Jack Barry--one of the true, enduring treasures of the most special State in the Union. Jack Barry left us on Sunday, May 4, at the age of…

I do not want automatic continuing resolutions because we will not, then, have our feet put to the fire and have to actually cast the tough votes and make the policy decisions the people of America expect us to do.

Walter ``Peanut'' Kennedy, the late Speaker of the House of Representatives came from the district of Chelsea, VT. They used a version of Vermont's old mountain rule. In a local form, mountain rule came from the town's unwritten agreement…

earlier this year, the Sunday Rutland Herald and Sunday Times Argus had an article about a fellow Montpelier neighbor, Dr. Ernest Tomasi. Dr. Tomasi was named the distinguished citizen of the year by the Montpelier Rotary Club. Madam…

going back to the matter at hand, all of us support the concept of volunteers working to help. In fact, this country could not make it without volunteers. I think of those volunteers in the recent disastrous floods in the Dakotas who…

In that regard, today being Law Day I think we should honor the Federal judiciary. We have a political climate where many of my colleagues bash the Federal judiciary on a daily basis and propose legislation that threatens a time-honored…

Frankly, I will say to my friend from Texas or anybody else, if they are not happy with the recommendations being made by the White House or Democratic Senators or anything else, the Republican Party has a majority of the Members in the…

the statement notes the President's deep commitment to volunteer and service activities, indeed his AmeriCorps initiation and participation at the summit are both noteworthy examples of his commitment. The statement notes as I have the…

as I said yesterday, I believe that the goal of encouraging voluntarism is a laudable one. I stand ready to work with others on a bipartisan or nonpartisan approach to doing so. This bill, S. 543, is not the answer and appears not even to…

I support the idea of voluntarism, but I oppose the motion to proceed to immediate consideration of S. 543. The merit of this motion seems solely to be the fact that this may be an opportunity to jump aboard the train of the Philadelphia…

We will advise and consent so the President can ratify this treaty. I truly believe we will. It will show the moral leadership that the Senate should show and that the United States should show. We will act as the conscience of this…

I agree with Mr. Bell, and I know he worked tirelessly on the CWC. But unfortunately, Mr. Bell, who I am sure is well motivated, has not been willing to apply that same argument to antipersonnel landmines. The Vice President will not apply…