when the bomb exploded outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City last month, my thoughts and prayers and I suspect that those of all Americans turned immediately to the victims of this horrendous act. The terrorism legislation…

As a former prosecutor, I feel that if somebody commits a crime, especially serious crimes like this, we ought to be able to have every possible way of going after that person. They ought to be prosecuted. They ought to be brought to…

I join with Senator Jeffords on this, because I think it is extremely important to our State. S. 534, as it is presently written, trashes Vermont's solid waste management plan, I might say literally and figuratively. What we want to do is…

7 years ago I visited Tibet, a land of striking beauty whose people are among the most inspiring and interesting I have ever had the privilege to meet. Most of the photographs of Tibet, I had seen before my visit, were of the jagged…

for the last two decades, our Federal employees seem to be handy scapegoats for anything that goes wrong with Government. Whenever anyone on this floor mentions ``those Federal bureaucrats,'' the syntax is generally pejorative and the…

Yesterday the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition of the Committee on the Judiciary voted out S.627, the Hatch-Thurmond-Leahy bill clarifying the application of our antitrust laws to major league baseball…

I assure my colleagues, the distinguished managers of the bill and my good friends, that I will not hold the floor long. I noted that nobody else was speaking just at the moment. Mr. President, a couple of weeks ago I went on Senate…

let me read something from the journal of a mother who lost her husband 3 rac{1}{2} years ago. She wrote in her account: We never know what's to come for us, though, do we? I put the boys to bed when their daddy went out. I went into the…

I am proud of the action taken by the Senate today. This vote was what serving in the Senate is really about--having the courage to do what is right, refusing to pass the buck to the States, standing up to special interest groups and…

during the past few days, I have been dismayed at the attempts of the proponents of this constitutional amendment to find a fix to pick up a vote or two in order to obtain passage. It may make for high drama, but it also makes for bad law…

all of Vermont is saddened today by the loss of a great leader in agriculture, George Dunsmore. George was a strong advocate for Vermont agriculture. He worked tirelessly promoting it here and abroad, and fighting for it in the…

I rise along with my good friend from Vermont, Senator Jeffords, and in fact the entire New England delegation. We rise to introduce a resolution to approve the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact. The compact is an agreement among the six…

We are amending the Constitution. We are the most powerful nation on Earth. We are also the most powerful democracy history has ever known. No other country has achieved, in economic or military power, the diversity the United States has…

we are now, really, beginning debate on the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States. I think before we propose to alter our fundamental charter of freedom, in fact, the blueprint for our representative democracy, I…

the Senate began debate on unfunded mandates with the premise that the Federal Government should not indiscriminately force State and local governments to implement Federal statutes. With this premise, S. 1 goes to the heart of the way…

I own a small tree farm in Vermont. In fact, I live on it. We harvest mixed types of trees, mostly hard wood, some soft woods, doing probably 25 to 35 acres a year. The man who does the harvesting was named a couple years in a row as the…

we all know that making peace has never been easy. It is hard to forget the pain of having lost loved ones. It is hard to abandon the image of an enemy as fundamentally evil and begin to recognize that same enemy as a fellow human being…

I want to report today on a visit I made to Haiti 2 weeks ago. It was a very brief visit, but I came away from it profoundly moved. I saw people, lots of people. Haiti, one of our closest neighbors, is crowded to bursting with people. It…

today the USDA issued a report analyzing the effects of the House Republican Personal Responsibility Act (H.R. 4), which is part of the Contract With America. All States including Vermont are big losers. I suggest that all Senators read…

I would really urge Senators to think carefully about voting to table. This is basically saying that we are not going to allow ourselves to set up the kind of political litmus test that nobody in private business would be allowed to do…

let me explain why I have done this. I remember when I first came to the Senate, I think within the first year or so I was here, I introduced legislation saying that I wished all laws would be applied to Members of Congress that apply to…

I am pleased to cosponsor S. 10. This bill could be called the Golden Rule bill because its premise boils down to Congress doing unto ourselves as we do unto others. I would be tempted to say that this is a reform whose time has come, if…

I rise today to honor one of my closest friends and trusted advisers, Eric Newsom. After nearly 15 years as a senior Senate staff Member, Eric has returned to the State Department. He is now the senior adviser to Under Secretary of State…

I rise today to introduce the Counterfeiting and Money Laundering Deterrence Act of 1994. The purposes of this legislation are twofold: First, it will bring our $100 currency up to date with the rest of the world and stop letting…

I have met very few men or women in my life who even begin to match the bravery shown by Bob Dole in the service of this country. His life is one marked by bravery, great physical suffering, and by great physical courage.