today I would like to share some thoughts on my experience of cohosting an educational forum on health care last month with the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS]. CSIS is a very well-known think tank in town that in the…

I note that the Armed Services Committee reported out the retirement nomination of Adm. Frank Kelso to retain his four-star rank, by an overwhelming bipartisan, 20-2 vote last week. I would simply say that I will listen to my colleagues on…

I spoke during the past session on some very deep concerns that I have had regarding the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons. As I stated, the AARP is one enormously influential organization in our society. I wanted to make…

Mr. President, Justice Barkett and I had a long visit in my office to discuss some of her cases, as well as her background and qualifications for the circuit court of appeals position to which she has been nominated. It was a very good…

49 years ago today, on a hillside near Bologna, Italy, a young lieutenant lead his squad through a complex array of bunkers and gun emplacements manned by German defenders. While executing a flanking maneuver, the squad approached a…

I rise in support of S. 1970, the USDA Reorganization Act of 1994 which we passed overwhelmingly yesterday. I favor the important efforts to reorganize the Department of Agriculture. This bill will ultimately result in a new and improved…

let me express my support for the legislation yesterday which was offered by our most able ranking member on the Appropriations Committee, Senator Hatfield, with regard to payment in lieu of taxes. That may seem rather arcane to many…

I rise in support of the Spending Commission amendment proposed by my friend and colleague, Senator Mack of Florida. Mr. President, we are in the process of debating a budget resolution which will leave the budget deficit on an ever upward…

I have never really been much into charts, but the principal manager of the bill, the Senator from Tennessee, has presented me with a remarkable instrument which as you keep pulling on, suddenly you have this remarkable pointer. I…

I rise to join my colleague, the senior Senator from Wyoming, Malcolm Wallop, in opposition to this bill. I share my colleagues strong concerns about the provisions that force concessionaires to forfeit their private property rights. That…

Although I did not object to the passage of this legislation, I do wish to make my views known. I have listened carefully to the advocates of this proposal and I share their strong commitment to preserving the integrity and the efficiency…

As the Senate begins debate on S. 4, the so-called Competitiveness Act, we must ask ourselves: Do we enhance American competitiveness by allowing ever greater Government intervention in the private sector? I do not think so. The better…

It has always been a great pleasure, a great exciting adventure in legislating with my friend Malcolm Wallop. Of course he will leave this Chamber at the end of this session to go into other things in life, like many others on both sides…

I support the Kassebaum amendment. Yet I am also a member, or was a member, of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers' Association. In fact, I was one of the founding members of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers' Association. I am very proud of that. I do not…

I have strong concerns about this nominee. I have gone into my own examination of material on this person who is going to be responsible for leading the regulation of collective bargaining and union organizing activities in the private…

I rise to introduce today the Comprehensive Immigration and Asylum Reform Act of 1994. This measure addresses so many of the various serious immigration and asylum problems which have been ``the stuff of headlines'' and debate in this…

I wish to support the constitutional amendment to balance the budget as proposed by my very able colleagues, Senators Simon, Hatch, Craig, and others. Over the years I have been involved in this one, we have taken all the hard shots that…

I, too, want to say a word about George Tames, who has gone from us now. He was a remarkable man. I met him when I first came to the Senate in 1979. He was the ace photographer for the New York Times, a very genial man, with bright eyes…

I rise to speak with reference to the Government Downsizing Performance, and Accountability Act that was introduced yesterday by Senator Dole as S. 1843. I am a cosponsor of this legislation, and I want to express my hope that it will…

I believe that all persons, legal or illegal, should be provided emergency disaster and medical assistance. When they are distributing blankets, food and temporary shelter, the providers of these necessities should not be checking the…

I am very pleased to join my colleague in paying tribute to Wells Klein. I have not known Wells as long as Senator Kennedy has, but when I became chairman of the Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcommittee in 1981, Wells Klein was among…

the sponsors' modification to this amendment greatly improves it, in my view. The original amendment would have modified the Refugee Act to provide special treatment to a particular group. For all the reasons I expressed this morning as we…

indeed, there is great confusion in the land sometimes between political refugees, refugees under the United Nations and United States, and economic refugees. But remember that a political refugee in every other country of the world and…

there is a reason why the groups do not wish this to get to the floor and to debate it like we are just doing. The reason is the word ``anti-Semitism.'' I will not have any part of that, in humor or not. That is personally very offensive…

I speak in opposition to the amendment. This is an extension of a measure first introduced in 1989. It is something that declares entire groups in the former Soviet Union and in Southeast Asia as subject to persecution and thus entitled to…