Herb Kohl

While funding has not been provided specifically for the Sokaogon Chippewa in the Senate version of this year's bill, it is my understanding that there are many other opportunities for securing Federal funding for this project. First and…

Today, we will send to the President a bill that abolishes the failed Federal welfare program. We will send to the President a bill that gives hope to more than 12 million mothers and children who have too long been left alone in a culture…

I commend the distinguished Subcommittee Chairman (Mr. Jeffords), in connection with the Fiscal Year 1997 District of Columbia Appropriations Bill. He has done a good job and I support him in his efforts. The bill before the Senate…

I want to say that I believe the chairman and ranking member of the Subcommittee have done an excellent job in putting together this bill under very difficult budgetary circumstances. They have done an exceptional job of protecting core…

I am pleased that funding is provided through this bill for the ARS Integrated Farming Systems Program, to pursue long-term research on farming systems that integrate livestock and resource enhancing crop rotations--all aimed at answering…

I rise in strong support, and as an original cosponsor, of the amendment by the Senator from Connecticut. I agree with much of what is in the welfare legislation before us today and I plan to vote on it. We owe it to the low-income…

Charles Clevert has accomplished a number of ``firsts'' in his life. He was the first member of his family to go to college. He was the first African-American assistant U.S. Attorney in Wisconsin. When he was appointed in 1977, he was the…

Given the urgent need for remediation, Senator Feingold and I had requested that the Committee authorize the Corps of Engineers to help in the clean up of the Fox River, thereby becoming a partner in the effort to remediate the…

this water resources bill includes many provisions of great importance. Perhaps none of the provisions is more important to the State of Wisconsin than the transfer of land in the Kickapoo River Valley from the Corps of Engineers to the…

the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is well aware of the concerns that Senator Feingold and I have raised about the concentration of contaminated sediments in the Lower Fox River of Wisconsin. As a result of a…

I rise to cosponsor the Church Arson Protection Act of 1996 introduced today by Senators Kennedy and Faircloth. Since the beginning of this year, a series of fires have swept our country. More than 30 predominantly African-American…

with this week's debate on the budget resolution, I believe the Senate has moved a giant step closer to implementing a balanced budget. We are no longer debating whether we should balance the budget. We are actually choosing between three…

this amendment puts the Senate on record in support of funding for programs that help young people stay off drugs and avoid crime and violence. It also commits the Senate to evaluating all crime prevention and eliminating duplication of…

I rise as a cosponsor of the education amendment offered by Senators Murray and Kerry. This amendment would restore the overall funding level for critical education and training programs jeopardized under this budget proposal. The…

No one has explained to me how we can maintain these high levels of defense spending and reduce the deficit. We cannot continue to spare the Defense Department from the deep regimen of cuts we are asking the rest of our society to absorb…

there is no excuse for the Congress to have delayed the fiscal 1996 budget this long. But thankfully, the high stakes game of political chicken is finally over. After closing the Government on two occasions, passing 13 separate stop-gap…

I thank Senator Breaux. The balanced budget we are presenting today is balanced not only on the bottom line, but it is balanced in its political support, balanced in the sacrifices it asks from all of us, and balanced in the benefits it…

earlier today I noted the serious problem this Congress faced in 1994 when it tried to take on too many health care-related issues under one bill. We learned that painful lesson during debate on the President's health care reform proposal…

I believe a more critical examination of this bill demonstrates something entirely different, and so I want to refute some of the assertions that have been put forth during this debate. I think every Member of the Senate would agree that…

I rise as a cosponsor of the sense-of-the-senate resolution on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program [LIHEAP]. This resolution calls on the President to release additional LIHEAP funds this year, and recognizes that forward funding…

I did offer, as I say, something like $3 billion, very close to $3 billion, in cuts that have been debated and agreed upon. This Uranium Enrichment Corporation cut from extending the Nuclear Regulatory Commission fees, and the $292 billion…

Well, I think that we are debating whether or not the offsets that I have offered are legitimate. I think for the most part they are. They are legitimate, I think, to the extent that we are missing, perhaps, just a relatively small portion…

I come here as an original cosponsor of the Daschle-Harkin education amendment. With this amendment, we have the opportunity to answer a daunting question for school administrators, teachers and parents across the country: How much does…

My position therefore remains the same, and I urge Members to vote against the motion to invoke cloture. Although I am urging Members to oppose the motion at hand, I do so with great reluctance. As Chairman Jeffords and I have already…

This is a very, very bad amendment. The amendment should not go through. It is anticonstitutional. It only can be authorized by Congress. It should not be authorized by Congress. It would allow six States to set the price of milk in their…