although I am speaking on the same side of this proposition as did the Senator from Massachusetts, I believe it is appropriate for us to deal with this issue. Parties whose fee agreements we are interfering with have come to the Congress…

we are now asked to vote on a bill authorizing the expenditure of more than $200 billion. No member of the Senate other than a handful of conferees has seen a copy of the bill; no one knows anything about its major policy implication. The…

perhaps a brief review of history as to how and why we find ourselves in the position we are in in this debate is an appropriate point at which to begin. Over the years, the Congress has delicately paced around the outer edges of the…

this Senator simply wishes to report that the Kennedy amendments place the Department of Labor in the shoes of most of these employers with respect to the criteria with which they will engage in employment. We have sent the amendments that…

Perhaps, Madam President, I owe the Senator from Massachusetts an apology. Perhaps it is true that he knows better than these high-tech companies whom they ought to hire and when they ought to hire them. Perhaps his effectively granting to…

this debate on the bill of the Senator from Arizona and his opponents, or those who would significantly change it and limit it, is a debate between optimists and pessimists about the American condition. Senator Abraham's proposal stems…

like many of my colleagues who have spoken on the floor this week, I rise in strong support of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. The Senate Finance Committee hearings about IRS agents and supervisors that are completely…

my esteemed colleague, the senior Senator from Utah, Senator Hatch, was on the floor this morning once again after his letter of last Friday denouncing Microsoft's use of its First Amendment rights to defend itself against an unwarranted…

10 days ago in a column appearing in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer wrote: By ruling Central Europe out of bounds to Russia, NATO expansion takes one of this century's fatal temptations off the table. It is the easiest U.S…

earlier this month, I came to the floor to announce that I was introducing legislation that would authorize the removal of one of two dams on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in my state. I have always been skeptical about claims…

Mr. President, the Gorton bill basically takes $10 billion a year of Federal money for our public schools, of which about $2 billion is used by bureaucrats today, and says that we prefer classrooms to bureaucrats. We would like to allow…

my friend from North Dakota makes two arguments. One, a philosophical argument against the abolition of the Department of Education, based on the philosophy that there is a function of the Department of Education in Washington, DC. That…

last fall during the debate of the Labor, Education appropriations bill, I introduced an amendment to consolidate more than a dozen Federal aid programs for education from kindergarten through 12th grade into a single block grant, with the…

in 1768 in a letter to George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson wrote, No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness . . . Preach a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the…

I am saddened by the response of Senator Kennedy. This amendment was revised very substantially after consultation, wide consultation with people thoughtfully interested in education. By the terms of the amendment, any State that wants to…

the Gorton-Frist amendment is based on two philosophical principles. The first of those principles is that the present system under which 7 percent of the dollars going into education come from the Federal Government, together with 50…

today, as we debate the most important issue we will discuss all year on the Senate floor--our children's education--I would like to take a moment to recognize Washington State's Teacher of the Year, Ms. Yvonne Ullas. A first grade teacher…

Violence in our schools--assaults, the carrying into schools of guns and other dangerous weapons, disruptive behavior that threatens the safety and security of the educational environment, disruptive behavior that detracts from the…

my friend from Louisiana makes a curious set of arguments. The single word he used most in his remarks was ``compromise,'' that this provision is now the result of a compromise of 4 years' work. No; this provision is not the result of 4…

the 1984 Shipping Act significantly brought openness and competition into the field of ocean shipping, a field dominated for decades by cartels, by fixed prices, by underhanded competition, and by, very frequently, the victimization of…

with the exception of the single paragraph toward the beginning of the eloquent statement by the Senator from Texas, I agree, literally, with every word of her remarks. In fact, I think, as I will show to you, that single paragraph with…

I am concerned about one program which has been slated as an offset for transportation increases--the Market Access Program. The Market Access Program is a USDA cost-share program which provides assistance to U.S. agriculture when…

six months ago, I came to the floor of the United States Senate to announce my reluctant support for removing one of two dams on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula. Today, after spending countless hours working with interested…

Earlier this afternoon, I introduced an amendment which would have instructed the U.S. representative to the International Monetary Fund to vote against any proposal with respect to Indonesia that would have benefited President Soeharto or…

I speak to you and my colleagues here today as a supporter of the International Monetary Fund. I believe that the crisis in Southeast Asia is one that is important to the economy of the United States, and that those nations in Southeast…