Yes, I will work with the House of Representatives during conference negotiations to ensure that the $800,000 is provided to address animal fighting.
Bill Bennett
The Public Record
I am pleased to present the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee report to the full Senate and to recommend passage of this bill. I am very grateful to the ranking member, Senator Kohl, and his professional staff. It has been one of the…
In spite of this, I know that the research conducted in Arkansas benefits us all.
as I have listened to this debate, it has reminded me once again of why I am glad I did not go to law school. The details of the legislation are best left to the lawyers who have argued it. I simply share with my colleagues a conversation…
one of the facts that those of us who live in the Washington area have grown accustomed to is that the world looks different through the eyes of the reporters for the Washington Post and the reporters for the Washington Times. My wife and…
In 1991, a forest health aerial detection survey was made in Utah that discovered the bark beetle in certain parts of the Dixie National Forest. Forest health specialists advised that it might be necessary to suppress the epidemic by…
I hope he will soon not be Utah's Governor because he has been nominated by the President to be the head of the EPA. On the other hand, we will be sorry to lose him as Utah's Governor because he has done a truly outstanding job. Many of…
we have a continual drumbeat going on in this Chamber. It came to a crescendo during the debate over the Iraq supplemental, but it goes on even when there is no legislation on the floor dealing with Iraq. There are several themes of this…
When my father left the Senate, he was invited, as is often the case for those who have senior experience in business, to serve on a number of boards of directors. He went on one particular board, thinking it was a relatively safe kind of…
I have never challenged the patriotism, the motives, or the rights of any Senator who has disagreed with the President on this vote. I do think he is profoundly wrong in the decision he has made with respect to this war. But I recognize…
when we think of forgiveness of debt or repudiation of debt, we think back usually to Germany, to the debt that was placed on Germany at the end of the First World War by the Versailles Treaty and the great political hay Adolf Hitler was…
We have discovered the question of what we should be doing in Iraq is foremost on our constituents' minds. Second, we have discovered--at least I have--that there is great concern about the size of the deficit. Those two issues were joined…