Russ Feingold

Mr. President, I rise to oppose the amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas that would prohibit the U.S. Labor Department from expending funds to enforce the President's recent Executive order barring Federal contracts with…

the chairman's amendment on Cuba is a very serious one. Cuba is a country of significance to the United States and our policy toward it should be very carefully considered, measured, and open to a wide range of dynamics which necessarily…

Tuesday's business section of the Washington Post had an interesting article in it on the termination of the helium program, which is a target as elusive and difficult to rein in as the helium gas itself. The subheading of the article was…

we are doing something very unusual here. We are working on a constitutional amendment. We know that has not happened many times in our history, and so when you deal with a constitutional amendment, you have to take an even tougher…

I also rise to support this amendment. I offered a similar version of the right-to-know amendment, the glidepath amendment, in the proceedings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I thought it was the best discussion we had in the committee…

I rise today to oppose the proposed balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I also rise as a person who I hope can be described as one of the strongest advocates of actually balancing the Federal budget. I believe the American…

I will see if I can do 22 years in 1 minute. First, there were 12 years of Republican Presidents who said they were going to provide a balanced budget. Instead, they brought us up to the biggest deficit and debt in the history of this…

I rise very briefly to praise and thank the Senator from California for her leadership on this issue. I am very, very pleased to be a cosponsor of the resolution and the amendment which is very straightforward. I appreciate the language…

as the bipartisan stampede for tax cuts begins here in the 104th Congress, I would like to raise a dissenting voice. Like every other elected official, I would really like to be able to support a tax cut for middle-class Americans. In…

I am pleased to introduce S. 85, the Long-Term Care Reform and Deficit Reduction Act of 1995, legislation to reform fundamentally the way we provide long-term care in this country. Though Congress failed to pass comprehensive health care…

I am pleased to reintroduce legislation today to eliminate the current mandate on States to place liens on the homes and estates of older medicaid beneficiaries receiving home and community-based long-term care services, and to provide…

I rise today on this first day of the 104th Congress to introduce legislation designed to fundamentally change the way we finance elections for the United States Senate. Over the last several years, there have been a host of campaign…

today I am introducing the CVN-76 Procurement Termination and Deficit Reduction Act of 1994, which would direct the Department of Defense to terminate plans to procure the next Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier in fiscal year 1995. This…

I once again rise in support of the bill to lift the U.N. arms embargo that continues to tie the hands of the sovereign Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As my colleagues know, I have been steadfast in my call for this critical action…

I have to say I certainly enjoy being in the U.S. Senate. It is the greatest honor of my life. I hope to be here for quite a while, at least 5 more years. But I am a little surprised to see such great passion in this body for the defense…

When I refer to the $75 example, it is under the Johnston substitute. The Levin substitute would only allow $20. Since there is a double strategy going on here, at one point people want to say this is a big deal, it is going to be hard to…

I commend and thank the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Senator Levin, for drafting this underlying substitute amendment. It does strengthen in many ways the bill that we had originally…

Thank you. I am as concerned, as the Senator is, that this bill, however it ends up, does not prevent us from being able to meet with our constituents either here or back in our home States. I noticed when the Senator listed various groups…

What I am trying to get at, the normal business meeting with constituents, not the balls or those events. The Senator specifically referred to a whole series of normal meetings that he has over the years. It appears to me from your answer…

I have an amendment relating to a GAO report on the requirement for insured depository institutions to collect data in light of this legislation, which I understand will be accepted by the managers of the bill. As I indicated, this…

I also want to add, Mr. President, that even with this change, any State can enact interstate branching before this time period, before June 1, 1997. They are free to move forward as rapidly as they wish. All this amendment does is simply…

I would like to thank the manager very much for bringing this amendment forward. It is something I have been working on with people from Wisconsin, including the Governor, who thought this would be very helpful. As the manager suggested…

I rise today as an original cosponsor of the Lieberman-Dole amendment which will, in effect, unilaterally lift the pernicious arms embargo against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I do not have a great deal to add to the comments by…

I rise today to join my colleagues in commemorating the 79th anniversary of the horrific period of Armenian slaughter during the years of 1915 to 1923. From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Government systematically murdered 1.5 million…

as a member of the Agriculture Committee, I rise in support of S. 1970, the USDA reorganization bill. I applaud Chairman Leahy and Senator Lugar for their leadership in this area and for working so diligently to reach consensus in the…