Finally, section 3131, particularly subsection (b), suggests that the authorization amount for privatization projects as defined in section 3104 cannot be used for new contractual obligations until DOE provides a report setting forth a…

Even if we secure the full $147 million in conference, as I hope we do, the fiscal year 1998 authorization is significantly less than the administration request. Does the failure to authorize TWRS funding at the administration's request…

I was prepared to offer a floor amendment to this bill, S. 936, to address a very critical program at the Department of Energy site at Hanford. As the chairman is aware, a major and costly cleanup effort is underway at that site as a…

On Monday, the Senate adopted a symbolic, yet important amendment which grants a Federal charter to the Air Force Sergeants Association, a highly respected nonprofit, veterans association. Over the past 36 years, the Air Force Sergeants…

a few years ago, when the battleship Missouri was decommissioned for the second time, after more than 30 years, the Navy began a process to determine where it could become a permanent historic monument. The Navy carried on that process…

the entire legitimacy of this body and the House of Representatives, of the Presidency and of the administration, depends upon its members, in the case of the Presidency the President himself, having been freely chosen by the American…

this amendment refines legislation enacted last year to transition the uniformed services treatment facilities [USTF's] into the DOD's new health care program called TRICARE. I hope that the managers of the bill, Senator Thurmond, chairman…

one correction. The GAO makes no recommendation with respect to whether or not this question should be reopened whatever. It does say the Navy should change its donation procedures in the future, but it does not say that the selection…

As chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the distinguished chairman and ranking member of the Commerce Committee, as well as with those of the majority and minority leaders. An…

Let me take a moment to briefly review my concerns. First, I requested that certain discrimination prohibitions concerning service contracts be applied to carriers only when they are working together, not when they are operating as…

meet Bill and Vivian Loomis from Lind, WA. The Loomises farm, in eastern Washington, wheat and potatoes. The Loomises, under the present tax law, have been dunned by the Bureau of Internal Revenue to pay an alternative minimum tax on…

I agree with the Leader. This bill is not perfect and it does not accomplish every reform that I want to see for this industry. But I believe it is a significant improvement over the status quo. I do recognize that Mrs. Hutchison's…

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania lie on the northwestern border of Russia. These three tiny Baltic nations have historically served as a crossroads as bargaining chips between great powers. As a result, they have been invaded and dominated…

the budget resolution which has just been adopted by this body is a remarkable achievement. It is a remarkable achievement partly because, for the first time in decades, it was adopted by a large bipartisan majority rather than as a simple…

Mr. President, my colleague and ally from New Jersey a few moments ago said of the amendment of the Senator from Missouri on this case I could not disagree more. I must say I could not disagree less and still disagree, but disagree I must…

Mr. President, some of those proposals were also Republican proposals with which a number of us on this side of the aisle agree. Many of them however were not. Many of them represent Government spending with which we disagree, which we…

Mr. President, the parentage of this successful budget resolution is ardently sought by many. Only failure is an orphan. In this case--I hope not to drive the metaphor too far--I believe that many properly may claim parentage of the…

in a recent article in the National Review, the author, Chester Finn, Jr., made the following comments about the present statute equally applicable to this bill. . . . prescriptive federal mandates that create heavy costs and regulatory…

the amendment which we are about to vote on is extremely simple, plain, easy to understand and totally logical. It reads in its entirety: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, each State educational agency or local educational…

Mr. President, I believe firmly that the case for my amendment has been established by the last two speakers, the Senator from Vermont and the Senator from Indiana. We have heard a wave of arguments about manifestation determinations and…

Is it any wonder that every year, in school district after school district, more and more students find themselves denominated disabled? The incentives to do so are extremely significant. It is reported by the Advisory Council on…

I have checked it, and, at the present time, the current funding level is just over $3 billion. The amendment proposed by the Senator from New Hampshire, [Mr. Gregg], would, over roughly a 7-year period, reach the authorized level of…

I will oppose this bill as one that I consider imposes not only an unfunded but an unwarranted mandate literally on every school district, every school director, every school administrator, every teacher in the public school systems of the…

I speak today on behalf of the thousands of citizens of my home State whose homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed by floods and landslides this year. Washington was hit hard in late December and early January by unprecedented…

by all accounts, Lt. Kelly Flinn has had a remarkable Air Force pilot's career. Becoming an astronaut was her childhood dream; becoming an Air Force pilot was an achievement accomplished upon completion of her basic pilot training in…