More than $1 billion a year in Federal funds is saved by WIC infant formula cost containment allowing over 1.6 million more women, infants and children to receive WIC benefits than would otherwise have been the case. One of the most…

Mr. President, my message today is very simple--my concern is that the nutrition cuts in the reconciliation bill are going to make children go hungry if they are allowed to stay as they are. At the beginning of this Congress, I attacked…

Prof. Garrison Nelson is one of our country's foremost experts on Congress and the Presidency, and Vermont has been lucky to call him our own during his tenure at the University of Vermont. He recently wrote an interesting column for Roll…

I want to totally confirm what the Democratic leader has said. I am one of the more senior Members on our side, and I certainly would be one who would have known had there been any such plan. I can assure both leaders that had there been…

I am disappointed that the tax package in the Small Business Job Protection Act, H.R. 3448, does not include any provisions to correct the foreign sales corporation tax to provide equal treatment to computer software exports. I believe the…

But as the Wall Street Journal points out, Brian Deyo is not alone. Many working families depend on the minimum wage. In fact, 73 percent of those affected by the proposed minimum wage increase are adults. Many are trying to support their…

Mr. President, it really comes down to this: Working Americans deserve the opportunity to earn a decent wage. It has been more than 5 years since the last increase in the minimum wage. You would think when it has been more than 5 years…

I have learned from my good friend from West Virginia the special bond that Senators have. It really goes beyond party, or region, or anything else. And when my good friend from West Virginia, Senator Byrd, called me the weekend my mother…

12 years ago, I stood on the Senate floor to give the most difficult speech I have ever given. I gave a eulogy to my father and a remembrance of his life. Today is also such a difficult time as I remember my mother, Alba Leahy, and her…

I am very pleased that the managers of the bill, Chairman Thurmond and Senator Nunn, have accepted my amendment to increase the budget of the Humanitarian Demining Technologies Program to $18 million for fiscal year 1997. This represents…

in my 22 years here in the Senate, I have had a chance to witness many historic events in this Chamber. When I leave the Senate, I hope to write a book about some of these. One of the truly historic events was a speech given by our former…

last year an amendment to the Fiscal Year 1996 Defense Authorization bill which I sponsored with 49 other senators, both Democrats and Republicans, to impose a 1-year moratorium on the use of anti-personnel landmines, except along…

I am disappointed and disillusioned by this conference report on the budget resolution for the 1997 fiscal year. I am disappointed that the conference report lowered next year's discretionary spending by $1.3 billion from the Senate-passed…

I join as a sponsor in this amendment to the budget resolution. Last year I offered a similar amendment that was adopted by the Senate. Unfortunately, Congress did not follow through on our commitment. Last year the budget for fighting…

thousands of people come to Washington, DC, each year to learn about the history of our country and the legacy left to us by the great men and women that have built the strongest, most powerful nation the world has ever known--the United…

we all know the adage, that one is never too old to learn. I would like to call attention to a very special Vermonter, Buddy Zais, who embodies this truism. Last Saturday, May 11, Buddy was one of the 203 students to graduate from Trinity…

I am pleased to join a bipartisan group of Senators in supporting legislation to encourage the development and use of strong, privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet by rolling back the outdated restrictions on the export of strong…

It is hard to think of a time when you find the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times all agreeing on an issue. But this is, as I said before, not an issue of political ideology, it is an issue of simple justice. It…

Now, we should be clear what the provisions of the bill do and what they and our amendment do not concern. These are not provisions that cover alien terrorists. It is safe to say that there is not a single Member of this body who wants to…

Yesterday the Senate agreed to include an amendment which I submitted to the immigration bill. This amendment addresses the serious problem of adding to the administrative load of the already overburdened nutrition programs. I met a couple…

I just want to make sure my colleagues understand the Senator from Wyoming and I have a longstanding friendship and affection and respect for each other, but we do look at this somewhat differently. To begin with, regarding the vote on the…

One question: Is it not under the new procedures, when they ask for asylum, would they not be held in detention until a preliminary determination has been made about false documents?

I commend Senator Ron Wyden for offering an amendment to require the General Accounting Office [GAO] to review and report on the effectiveness of the H-2A Nonimmigrant Worker Program after passage of immigration reform legislation. I have…

A member of a Supreme Court who works full time is paid less. The attorney retained as the ethics adviser is, I realize, a wonderful man and a good friend of mine, but this is extraordinary-- this ethics adviser is paid on a part-time…

I have been reading a number of articles in the national press raising some very serious questions about the appearance of conflict of interest on the part of Mr. Starr, the special prosecutor. As a former prosecutor myself, I feel…