Pete Domenici: “Senator, let me say the idea of putting posters around has proliferated. I don't think we ought to add more to the…”

“Senator, let me say the idea of putting posters around has proliferated. I don't think we ought to add more to the confusion of a vote by having them around. I had no intention to pass judgment on the validity of your exhibit, which I find very difficult to interpret and rather irrelevant, but besides that, I don't have anything to say about it. Let me say, why strike a provision that the Federal Government's inaction cries out to be left in this bill, which was signed by the President last year? I might even tell my friend from Illinois, can you believe it, I talked to him personally on this issue because he wanted to understand what the hoopla was about. I will not paraphrase him, but he signed the bill with this provision in it. It does no one any harm, and nothing has happened to say it has hurt the environment in this past year. And this issue has nothing in the world to do with how much ranchers are paying.”