Pete Domenici: “fellow Senators, the bipartisan budget agreement and the Domenici-Lautenberg amendment revised the asset sale scoring…”

“fellow Senators, the bipartisan budget agreement and the Domenici-Lautenberg amendment revised the asset sale scoring rule. The new rule prohibits scoring asset sales that would lead to a financial loss to the Government. Much work has gone into this. Democrats and Republicans have worked on it. Senator Bumpers wants to make a special exception for public lands. Let me suggest the awesome situation that he has talked about never has happened in the U.S. Senate. We have never tried to sell national parks. We have never had any commission to sell national parks. Somebody in the House had a wild idea, and, frankly, that is never going to happen here. As a matter of fact, this amendment, what we have already adopted, says that if there is any financial loss to the Government, you cannot count an asset sale. I make a point of order against the Bumpers amendment. It violates section 313 of the Budget Act.”