Russ Feingold

The New York Times editorial states: The price increase [provided in the Compact] would pump perhaps $50 million a year into the bank accounts of New England dairy farmers. But it would needlessly pummel poor parents by forcing them to…

I voted against the farm bill today for a number of reasons. First, while I and other Senators from the Upper Midwest were successful in striking from the Leahy substitute the northeast interstate dairy compact, this bill contains no…

only last week the Senate ratified the START II Treaty, putting us firmly back on the road to ending the threat of nuclear annihilation. The next step is to bring to reality the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which would serve to…

3 years after its signing by the United States and the Soviet Union, the second landmark Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty has finally come to the floor of the Senate for consideration. I want to join the overwhelming majority of my…

of the many controversial issues in the continuing resolution we are considering today, few have been as contentious as the debate about international population programs in the foreign operations appropriations bill. Astoundingly, the…

I think we are all very much looking forward to hearing the President's State of the Union Address tonight. It is a great honor to be a Member of this body and a great honor to be able to sit in the room with our national leader and hear…

Mr. President, this legislation has dramatic implications for the first amendment rights of every American. Mr. President, I am referring to the precedent-setting provisions in S. 652 and H.R. 1555 regarding indecency on the Internet. I am…

I am deeply concerned about and oppose elimination of the Post-Conviction Defender Organizations. This debate is not, as some would have you believe, about the death penalty. It is about common sense and fiscal responsibility. The benefits…

Mr. President, I voted ``no'' on the motion to proceed to consideration of the Labor-HHS appropriations. A number of problems in this measure have been highlighted in the debate, but I would like to focus on one particular provision, the…

I am pleased to be a part of this effort, to be one of two authors in the McCain-Feingold bill... People are looking for any sign of hope that things can change here in Washington.

Mr. President in 1974 Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Omnibus Trade Act establishing a linkage between human rights and most-favored-nation [MFN] trade status for nonmarket economies. The legislation was largely…

I rise to briefly discuss one of the more interesting--and most distressing--components of S. 565, the so-called Product Liability Fairness Act. That, Mr. President, is the conscious and flagrant expropriation of the rights of the State…

I add my voice of concern over the delay in action of the Federal budget. It is now May 3. That is over a month after the April 1 deadline for the Budget Committee to report a concurrent resolution on the budget. It is also nearly 3 weeks…

this legislation would not only curtail the power of juries to determine the amount of punitive damages to be awarded; it would also prevent certain evidence relating to damages from even being presented to the jury in the first place…

What is ironic, Mr. President, is that here we have now, again, the majority of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate--as well as the other body--and they are doing just the reverse. There was a book written about the success of the 1986…

I did not want to see that headline this morning, but I did. And I did have a chance to take a look at it. Let me say, first of all, to the Senator from North Dakota that long before I had the honor of being elected to this body, I admired…

I want to state first of all that, as we get to the end of the Republican contract of 100 days, it is time to take stock. Everyone is taking stock of what is in the contract, what is passed, what has not passed, what is not in the…

this bill marks a milestone for Wisconsin by rescinding funds for Project ELF, a Navy communications system located in Clam Lake, WI, and Republic, MI. This is one cut that the local congressional delegation will not oppose. In fact, I…

the point of that editorial is that although there is this opposition growing in the Senate, there is an effort going on to change the budget rules in such a way that would allow these tax cuts in a way that would immunize, in effect, both…

that article commented on the Contract With America, and specifically the Archer proposal, by saying the following: The tax cuts from the House Republican ``Contract With America'' have been reduced to legislative form. The process hasn't…

I certainly thank the senior Senator from Illinois for noticing the cartoon and for being one of the first people in this body to come to me and say that we do need to prevent this tax cut frenzy if we are going to be serious about…

as we move into the period where we actually take up issues such as the line-item veto and then the budget resolution and then the reconciliation package, there will be the opportunities to actually make this happen, to actually force this…

My view is that use of permanent replacement workers in any context where Federal dollars are involved should not be permitted.

I am sorry to say is yes. Increasingly, through the 1980's and early 1990's, there were systematic efforts in certain places to use permanent replacement workers. Among the ones that stick out is what happened to people in De Pere, WI…

They are not the people who so many people like to rail against who are not willing to work who can work; these are people who work, who have worked hard, who report to work every day, many of whom have to have both parents working to make…