Honorable John F. Kerry
United States Senator, Massachusetts, Democrat
Senator Kerry was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984.He was Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts,from 1976 to 1981, and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from1982 to 1984. He serves on the following committees: Banking,Housing, and Urban Affairs; Commerce, Science, and Transportation;Foreign Relations; Small Business (as Ranking Minority Member);and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following statementis from the Senate floor debate of April 29, 1999, on S. 96, theY2K Act.I heard the Senator from Arizona [John McCain (R)] assert thatthe principal reason that we are where we are right now is becausethe revenue stream for lawyers, for…
