Honorable Paul Wellstone
United States Senator, Minnesota, Democrat
Senator Wellstone was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1990. He was a professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, from 1969 to 1990. He serves on the following committees: Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Indian Affairs; and Veterans’ Affairs. The following is from the June 30, 2000, Senate floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 4425, the Military Construction Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001.I rise in strong opposition to the changes that were made to Plan Colombia in the military construction conference report. As if this body did not originally give enough to the…
