love bill clinton. i think he s got the largest whether you love or hate him, you have to learn hearing about him. lots of people enjoy hating hem. i think he has the largest personality of any occupant of the oval office. just a fascinating plan. as far as comments go, i didn t meet with bill clinton. he doesn t talk with biographers. i only wanted to speak to him about his post presidency. the book is everyone talking about him. he s the presence that lurks throughout the whole book. he didn t speak directly to me, but i did meet with an aid of his who looked me over and really checked me out to see that i just wasn t some sort of sleaze i guess. he gave the okay to friends. of bill. when you send out an interview request of bill, they call up bill clinton s office and say, speak to this guy. i spoke to many, many friend of his. a copy of the book has been given to bill clinton. i haven t heard from him. i hope i dent receive one of those 2 a.m. phone calls. [laughter] wh
he still supports the treaty without this language, without this expression of concern. secretaries albright former secretaries of state albright, baker, christopher, eagleburger, kissinger, powell, rice, schultz support the treaty without this language. they have the same concerns. as a matter of fact, i believe that it was senator sessions it may have been someone else who said that former secretary kissinger has expressed this concern. in fact, quoted, i believe, from secretary former secretary kissinger s writing on this issue. he has that same concern which senator risch and all of us have about this imbalance. but without the language, former secretary kissinger still supports this treaty. so all i can say is, i think there s a legitimate concern which is expressed in this amendment, it s a concern which has existed and needs to be addressed, as former senator biden said when he was debating treaty, but not to kill a treaty by expression of a legitimate concern. a
only for those who can afford it? i have to say to the honorable lady that we looked very carefully at the study that was completed under the government of the labor party and it showed that nine out of 10 of those people receiving education maintenance allowance would have stayed on at school anyway. this is why the labor party landed us in such a mess over the economy. we have to ask the question about value for money and whether we are spending money in the correct way. we are not abolishing emas: we are replacing emas with something more effective. at a time order. members ask the question; they must listen to the prime minister s answer. at a time when we are legislating to raise the participation age to 18, we have to ask whether it is it is right to spend so much money on asking people to do something that by law they will be asked to do anyway. time and time again, we seem to be exporting extreme islamist terrorists and suicide bombers to afghanistan, israel
relevant and, therefore, we should seek to achieve great transparency and accountability on both our side a as well as on the russian side. that brings me to the second amendment which is not pending but which is filed and which i m a cosponsor and that is senator lemieux s amendment. that would require the u.s. and the ruins enter into negotiations within one year of ratification to address the disparity in nuclear weapons. both of these amendments address what i believe is one of the most crucial issues and one of the issues the treaty should have addressed but didn t and i urge my colleagues to support both these amendments, but particularly today the risch amendment. the presiding officer: who yields time? the senator from idaho. mr. risch: the proponents of the amendment have how much tiesm leftimeleft? the presiding officer: 15 minutes. mr. risch: we ve 15 minutes left, other than my 10 minutes of closing? the presiding officer: that s correct. mr. risch: i would yield
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