last Thursday at the end of the dramatic vote on the balanced budget amendment and its rejection by a single vote, there were many who felt that this was a tragedy with respect to dealing with the problems facing the United States and its…

the debate over the relationship between Social Security and the balanced budget amendment seems now to be drawing to a close. The truly vital vote on the subject was cast just a few hours ago, evidencing the attention this Congress will…

legislation will be introduced soon that takes our Nation an important step closer to avoiding devastating wildfires in our national forests. I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the legislation to be introduced by the senior Senator…

Mr. President, at the outset of this debate, I observed that Members of the Senate divided into three distinct groups in connection with the proposal now before us. The first was those who believe that the present budget and financial…

We could certainly do so, and undoubtedly we could provide employment to numerous constitutional scholars and courts to either interpret what we had said in the constitutional amendment and what we said in the later statute, or whether or…

I wish to express my admiration to my colleague from Idaho on the quality and clarity with which he has outlined both what the President proposes to Members, and the way in which that proposal illustrates better than almost anything we can…

My friend from Idaho is entirely correct. I think in recap we have to say about this motion, first, the motion proposes that the Congress of the United States act in a profoundly unconstitutional manner. Second, it proposes that we add to…

the Senate is not now at this moment debating directly the merits of House Joint Resolution 1, the balanced budget amendment. By reason of actions taken by the distinguished Democratic leader and the distinguished majority leader, the…

In general terms, we face the proposition that divides this body, I believe at this point, simply into two camps. There are those who, like myself, believe that the country is in a serious crisis, that the status quo is unsatisfactory, and…

yesterday when I spoke on the subject of a balanced budget amendment, a vitally important subject which, without doubt, will occupy the next many days of debate in this U.S. Senate, I observed that Members' views on this subject fell into…

we are, of course, at the outset of a debate on a profound and important issue to the future of the United States, a debate on the Constitution itself and on whether or not it should be amended to require or to encourage balanced budgets…

late last week, the Member of Congress from the First District in the State of Oklahoma [Steve Largent] was voted into the National Football League's Hall of Fame in the first year during which he was eligible for that honor. While Mr…

3 weeks of debate on this bill seems now to be coming to an end and the vote in favor of a restriction on unfunded mandates imposed on State and local governments almost certainly will be overwhelming. During the course of this 3 weeks…

one fact is crystal clear as a result of this debate. Our friends and colleagues on the other side of the aisle, with a few notable and courageous exceptions, do not want a balanced budget. They want an outline which will make it more…

if I may, in the midst of this interesting debate, I would like to return the focus of the debate to S. 1 itself; to unfunded mandates, to the impact that those mandates have had on State and on local governments, and to the urgent…

My answer to the Senator from New Mexico is that is a very good question, to which the answer is ``no.'' I sense that educational goals are likely to fall into two categories, one of which is more likely to be controversial than the other…

first, I should like to say with respect to my friend and colleague, the Senator from Connecticut, that it is always a pleasure to deal with him on the same side of an issue just as it is very dangerous to disagree with him and attempt to…

I intend in just a moment to ask unanimous consent to modify the Dole second-degree amendment, to modify it in a manner which would turn it from a statute to a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. The most important, the vital part of what we…

I say to my friend from New Mexico, there is hardly an important commission or entity or agency in the United States whose controversial decisions or operations do not create controversy or debates on the floor of the U.S. Senate. We are…

I have the privilege and delight to be a member, for the next 2 years, of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. I want to take this opportunity to discuss, in general, why I feel that assignment to be so significant and why I feel so…

when the people of Washington State voted overwhelmingly to enact the Nation's first ``Three Strikes You're Out'' law, we sent a clear and unmistakable message across the country--we have had it with violent crime. In meetings with people…

2 weeks ago was National Safe Kids Week. Children from all across America came to Washington, D.C. to tell their legislators how important it is that we do something to prevent tragic childhood accidents and deaths. Today, Congress is…

despite the heated rhetoric that title IX of the House-passed crime bill evokes, three facts are inescapable and irrefutable. One, despite it's clever title, the Racial Justice Act would not tend toward eliminating racially discriminatory…

Senator Harkin and I both are advocates for the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program. This program provides funds for local multijurisdictional law enforcement efforts to eradicate crime and drugs from our society. During the budget debate…

the conference report on the budget continues the fiction begun by the 1993 budget agreement passed on a tie vote last summer. That fiction, perpetrated by this budget, is that the deficit problem was fixed last summer and Congress and the…