late yesterday the National Marine Fisheries Service requested of the Corps of Engineers that it begin immediately a substantial spillage of water over the dams on the Columbia and the Snake Rivers. That spillage, of course, would take…

I am offering a sense of the Senate amendment to the fair credit reporting bill regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to close the Seattle office. Earlier this year, the SEC announced that the Commission's Seattle…

I am introducing legislation today designed to improve significantly the framework for the coordination, integration, and review of the United States effort to counteract a continuing serious problem of espionage by Americans and others. I…

I am pleased to join my distinguished colleague from Louisiana, Senator Breaux, by cosponsoring S. 2029, a bill to correct a terrible problem caused by the implementation of the diesel fuel tax requirements of last year's tax bill. Let me…

I want to express my full agreement with and admiration for the distinguished leader of the Republicans and the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Lieberman]. It is long past time, it seems to me, that we should be dealing with these wonderful…

I am pleased to be a cosponsor of the bankruptcy reform bill which is before the Senate today. I wanted to acknowledge and compliment the chairman of the committee in particular for including one provision which is especially important to…

This Senator accepts the statement that the Senator from Delaware made. This Senator did dispute the proposition which the Senator from Delaware has withdrawn, that the National Association of Attorneys General endorsed his position. That…

And prosecuting attorneys from his own State. When, however, the Senator from Delaware says that his compromise was endorsed by the National District Attorneys Association and by the Association of Attorneys General, he is exaggerating to…

maybe it is just that the colleagues know the Senator better than the attorneys general do.

one of the bitter lessons of the Vietnam war was that before engaging in any military conflict, the United States should be clear in its objectives and assure that it has the support of the American people. This lesson served us well in…

That is exactly correct. And it is because there have been so many differences on substance that the Senator from Delaware reached that procedural decision, reluctantly as he may have come to it, in any event. I began in this discussion by…

It is exactly for that reason that I came to praise my successor, Ms. Gregoire, as the attorney general of Washington, for a very cogent presentation of her point of view and that of our prosecuting attorneys. I think they are doing the…

It is a great pleasure to listen to the Senator from Delaware in his enthusiasm as well as his knowledge of this subject. Occasionally he may get slightly more enthusiastic than the facts warrant. This Senator began with the discussion of…

In any event, the numbers in this connection are perhaps not as important as the substance. Clearly, they are not as important as the substance, and the numbers are somewhat murkier than the Senator from Delaware would have the membership…

I am proud to be a cosponsor of S. 455, a bill which will help local governments throughout my State provide services where currently unfunded Federal obligations require them to absorb the growing cost of providing these services on their…

I rise today to recognize Sammamish High School in Bellevue, WA, for innovation and excellence in education. While at home over the January recess, I organized a meeting of over 200 parents, teachers, administrators, and students. At this…

there is a substantial, vitally important difference between the two budgets between which we will choose in the course of the next few hours. That of the majority looks backward. It congratulates itself over the proposition that the…

States and localities must match up to 25 percent of the cost of the program, and no more than 10 percent of the formula grant to a State can be used for administrative purposes. Most of it, in fact, gets through to the streets, to the law…

the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Washington agree totally on the Byrne grant program. We agree as to its effectiveness on the war on drugs and with respect to interdisciplinary task forces. We agree on the DARE Program. What they…

Each of us agrees on the vital importance of Byrne grants to effective law enforcement and particularly to effective drug interdiction in the United States. The Senator from Iowa proposes that it be taken out of antiballistic missile…

In other words, this Senator at this point does not know whether or not Senator Harkin will prevail. Part of my amendment will depend on whether it prevails or does not prevail. I will put up one form of it. But if his prevails, I wish to…

I will take them from allowances with the intention that they be from the furnishings account, exactly what we have been debating all this time.

I respond to the distinguished Senator that the amounts that will come out of each of the functions across the board under the alternative proposal of the Senator from Washington will be directly proportional to the amount in the allowance…

Today the Senate considers a bill which is, in large part, the result of the collaborative efforts of various individuals and groups which have a vested interest in the reauthorization of this important act. These groups put aside their…

Edward Byrne was a young New York City policeman killed in action by drug lords in the 1980's. His heroism inspired the greatest crime fighting tool against drug traffickers that State and local law enforcement have ever known: the Edward…