this amendment, which was the original Simpson amendment No. 3, creates a new ground of exclusion and of deportation for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship. Mr. President, this amendment would add a new section to the bill. This is…

This is the original Simpson amendment No. 8 which is to repeal the current ban on open field searches. Therefore, any staff watching these proceedings at this moment will have immediately pressed a button, and the ejection device will…

the concern my friend from Massachusetts expresses, and what he has pointed out as something disturbing to him, certainly is not the intent of this author, especially with regard to motor voter. There may be some things that would have to…

And be certain the things that cause him concern are not anything that I am intending to do in this amendment. We can work that out.

I feel that the Social Security System is going to go broke, whether you have it on budget, off budget, hanging from space or coming out of the Earth. It is going to go broke in the year 2029. It is going to start its huge swan song in…

I want to commend Senator Kennedy and Senator Kassebaum for the work that they did, which was quite evident, the worth of it and the success of it, by a vote of 100 to 0, on an issue that has been creating tremendous difficulty with all of…

If suddenly the procedure fails at this time, we will come back to it tomorrow or the next day, whatever it may be. But since we want to talk about the substance of minimum wage, I think it is important then just quickly, if I may, to talk…

But let us be very clear. I say to Senator DeWine and Senator Craig--let me tell you, the law before 1986 was that the INS could go do a warrantless search, ladies and gentlemen. Before we changed the law, with this linkage of the ACLU and…

I have found in my time here that those who remain obsessed about certain aspects of legislation almost always find that that obsessive behavior is often visited subsequently on the perpetrator. That is not my idea. That is just the way…

I enjoy, obviously, the Senator from Massachusetts because he does his work with a--down there, always--a crinkle in his eye and a twinkle. I know that one. I have seen it many times. This is, really--this is theater. It is…

I think that all of us know when we reach these sticking points in this body--and that is often--people then huddle and decide what to do. The leaders trust and admire each other and they will work together and move the legislation of the…

It does not take too many minutes to explain that there is no Social Security trust fund. To come to this floor time after time and listen to the stories about the Social Security trust fund is phantasmorgia and alchemy. There is no Social…

It is, again, an attempt to drive the issue of minimum wage into the work of the U.S. Senate. There is nothing else to this. I referred to it earlier in the day as somewhat like theater, with myself in the role of Puck and Senator Kennedy…

not only the fiction of it, but since 1938, by law, the trust fund buys T bills which are IOU's that the Government must pay back. FDR did that, and that is what it is. There is no mystery to it. It is a series of IOU's, and when those are…

I do not think anybody would try to obscure anything--at least this Senator is not. The obfuscation and the obscuring is to tell the American people that there is a trust fund that we are using moneys from. There is not any trust fund…

I hope that all Members will read the amendment. I know sometimes we forget to do that from time to time, it is perhaps one of our failings. It is a very simple amendment. It is described as ``parity.'' I think the Senator from New Mexico…

I just reflect that Senator Kennedy and I are ready to go forward with this measure. It is an issue that is very topical and must be addressed--the issue of illegal immigration, the issue of legal immigration. Both bills are here. One is…

I think America's greatness has been created, generation after generation, by driven self-selected individuals who came here as legal immigrants. We can think of names such as Albert Einstein, from Ohio, someone like George Olah who came…

The amendment provides a source of funding for INS to establish a very basic system for keeping track of foreign students. It is a measure supported by the FBI Director, who expressed concerns at our ability to track such students in a…

because we recently shouldered the important matter of extending the debt limit, I feel obliged to address the provision in that bill that increases the earnings limit for Social Security beneficiaries aged 65-69. As my colleagues know…

today we debate a bill of tremendous importance to my State and to many Americans who draw their livelihood from the land. I am speaking specifically about ranchers, that often maligned group of individuals who have played such an enduring…

I strongly oppose the pending amendment. I believe Senator Hatfield and the Appropriations Committee have recommended a very prudent policy with respect to international family planning assistance. To strike the language as they have…

I recently came upon some statements offered by Thomas Jefferson, which, I think, appear to bear some remarkable relevance to our current predicament. To quote from one of them from 1816, in a letter to Governor Plumer, he said: ``I place…

I have a comment on a rather elusive matter. We work in an arena where truth is always a rather elusive entity. Many statements in this place seem to be repeated ad hominem and ad nauseam, however inadvertently, without regard to any basis…

I am now a member of that committee and I sat in on those hearings. They were often held at 9:30, 10 o'clock in the morning. Had I been chairman I might also have sought to have them in the afternoon. I was there for almost all of them…