Honorable Don Nickles
United States Senator, Oklahoma, Republican
Senator Nickles was first elected to the Senate in 1980.He was Vice President and General Manager of Nickles Machine Companyfrom 1976 to 1980. He serves as the Senate’s Majority Whip andis a member of the following committees: Energy and Natural Resources,where he chairs the Subcommittee on Energy, Research, Development,Production, and Regulation; Finance, where he chairs the Subcommitteeon Social Security and Family Policy; Rules and Administration;and the Joint Committee on Printing. The following is from theNovember 9, 1999, Senate floor debate on minimum wage amendmentsto S. 625, the Bankruptcy Reform Act.First, I commend my colleague from New Mexico [Senator Domenici]for the…