I am concerned that the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) continue to develop and implement the Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC). This Center is the only on-line national database available to identify criminal illegal…

this is excellent debate, great points have been made, as in all these things. But consider the fact this bill is not going anywhere. What we are doing tonight is like training to fight the Spanish Armada. We ought to put all these…

I will vote for this continuing resolution because we should not shut down the government. Defeating this resolution would force millions of Americans to bear the weight of political intransigence. That is neither fair nor prudent…

I join today in the introduction of the ``NII Copyright Protection Act.'' This bill reflects the effort of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, chaired by Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and…

it is true that this amendment by itself would save money. But you could also say that if we had an amendment that totally did away with the food stamp program that would save even more money. Basically what this says is you could be…

Mr. President, I am concerned about the welfare bill before us, the Republican version. ... The Senate Republican plan cuts spending on welfare now, but you can be sure that local taxpayers will be picking up the tab later.

it is time for a bipartisan summit on the budget. As I said back in June during the debate on the 1996 budget resolution, I fear that the Republican congressional leadership and the President are on a collision course over the budget. An…

George Seldes, who died Sunday in Vermont at the age of 104, was literally, a Witness to a Century--the title of his autobiography. A true investigative reporter who refused to accept the subtle pressures imposed upon journalists by…

Mr. President, the telecommunications bill that we are considering will have an enormous impact on multibillion-dollar cable, phone, and broadcast industries. But beyond that, it also affects the pocketbooks of every one of our…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…