Russ Feingold

On August 19, the Department of Commerce announced that it would initiate a formal antidumping investigation. The following day, Dr. Neal Lane, Director of the National Science Foundation announced that the NSF was halting action on the…

I believe that is important to pursue matters legislatively when there is unusual agreement on both sides of the aisle. And in this case there is that agreement between many of us on both sides of the aisle that this program needs to be…

the deployment to Bosnia of the International Force [IFOR] has passed its midway mark and I would like to review with my colleagues what I believe has been accomplished to date, the many questions yet unanswered by the Administration, as…

just a month ago we had a discussion here on the Senate floor about the issue of campaign finance reform. I think a lot of us worked hard on the effort. We have taken a bit of a breather for the last month and assessed the situation, and…

I recognize there are strong feelings on this project and deep divisions in the region. I say to the junior Senator from Colorado, we must honor our commitment to this tribe. The question is how to honor the commitment. This project was…

I have offered the amendment on behalf of Senator McCain of Arizona, which is an outgrowth of a bipartisan effort that relates to the issue of post-employment restrictions on elected officials and what is more commonly known as the…

I rise today to lend my strong support to the nomination of Charles N. Clevert to be United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. I am pleased that the full Senate has joined with me, Senator Kohl and my…

This amendment seeks to limit obligation of funds for the production of this new aircraft until Congress has an opportunity to review carefully the recommendations made by the General Accounting Office in a report issued last month. The…

I would ask for the Senator's commitment to give that provision strong consideration in conference, or to work with Senator Kohl and myself to find another vehicle to address this urgent matter.

this amendment would ``fence'' the funds authorized for production of the 12 F/A-18E/F's authorized in this legislation until such time as the Department of Defense [DOD] submits a cost/benefit analysis to Congress and Congress has an…

Let us be clear what we are attempting. We are in a period here where everyone in the country knows we are trying to find places where we can reduce spending. There are a number of areas that receive very strict scrutiny. There is a…

Let me simply remind my colleagues what this amendment seeks to do. It asks, in light of this recently released GAO report, released yesterday, that we fence the money until such time as the Department of Defense provides us with a…

I voted for the Nunn-Lugar amendment, but there are provisions included in that amendment that are quite troubling for me. Obviously, like every Member of this body, I am deeply concerned about the need for the United States to be fully…

to make concluding remarks, and later Senator McCain will make other concluding remarks, let me again clarify the point about constitutionality. The Senator from Virginia said clarity of conscience prevents him from working for this bill…

First of all, it seems, almost as if in an effort to stop this bill from even being amended, that the kitchen sink is being thrown at this bill. Now we hear the Postmaster General is one of the lead opponents of the bill. But this…

The one suggested that any third grader would know that the PAC ban, with a backup provision, is unconstitutional. I am sorry, but I will say one thing about that. The Senator from Kentucky and the Senator from Washington voted for…

Just over a year ago, I shook hands with Speaker Gingrich and publicly affirmed my commitment to reforming the nation's campaign finance laws. Now I call on Congress to send me legislation that will address the American public's desire for…

I cannot think of a more eloquent testimony to the need for this reform than the statement that this great Senator, if he were starting out today, probably would not even have considered running for the U.S. Senate because of the…

If that happens, which I doubt, it would have to come out of the budget of the post office.

Our estimates are that it would cover it. We go on the basis of estimates here. That is our assumption. Even if there was a small gap, the effect would be minimal. Let me quickly wrap up--because I want to turn to the Senator from West…

Mr. President, I thought this was a colloquy on the issue of whether there were spending limits in this bill. The Senator from Kentucky and the Senator from Utah have come out here today and said, time and again, that there are mandatory…

What I would like to do just briefly is indicate what we do have in the bill, and then the Senator from Arizona, I think, will more plainly explain the basic structure of the bill. A concern was raised in the past about these voter guides…

This Senator is intrigued by the Senator's discussion of newspapers and the roles of the newspapers today in the context of this bill passing and becoming law. All I hear around the country is that the newspapers have lost their clout and…

the finishing touches have been applied to the leadership's Presidential election year budget, and as many of us on both sides of the aisle feared, the cornerstone of that election year budget is not balancing the books but cutting taxes…

I opposed the Communications Decency Act when it was first proposed in the U.S. Senate, because I believe this measure would have a chilling effect upon communications transmitted over the Internet, and it would stifle the expansion of…