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If I might add a comment. It seems to me that if there is that much money out there to get this job done, we might seize on that as a means of balancing the Federal budget in 2 years. I thank my friend from North Dakota.
With that fee schedule that you just outlined right from the Surface Transportation Board paper, how many complaints do you think small businessmen, small elevators, would file out of North Dakota?
Mr. Chairman, as more families have both parents working, families are making painful choices; either work, or risk their jobs and the income the family needs. H.R. 2391 is an attempt to ease this burden on families. It'll allow the…
I recommend that all Senators vote in favor of the amendment. I would simply point out that the amendment does nothing more than what the States can already do. I will vote for this amendment, and the one that follows. I will strongly…
I end with 30 seconds, by merely saying the personal investment plan, as described by Senator Simpson and myself, is not privatization. It is fully funded. And it is, it seems to me, called for in a program which has not been changed…
Will the Senator from Alaska help me understand a part of the bill. Within the Formerly Used Defense Site Program you have added $25,000,000 for PCB and asbestos removal. We have a situation out at the University of Nebraska where the…
I am quite convinced this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that this Congress has taken up. I am very, very grateful to the Senator from Kansas for saying, get all parties back together, Republicans and Democrats. There…
While the Senator from Virginia and I have not always agreed on all subjects, we have agreed on more than we have disagreed on. I could not help but ask for a moment, if I might, to congratulate the Senator from Virginia for his very…
The basic situation that confronts us is that the Kyl amendment, regardless of how well-intentioned, could not possibly be offered at a worse time, as it would adversely affect the nuclear test ban treaty that, right now, is being…
To the discussion of how we can justify this increase that is not requested by the Pentagon.
I happen to have the feeling that the comptroller at the Pentagon is a very honest, straightforward individual.
I will simply point out that the Exon amendment still allows for a $9 billion increase over what the President and the Pentagon has recommended. I would think, regardless of the technical details, that most realize and recognize that such…
I want to emphasize that. But I still say that we are going way too far. I think that is such a reasonable amendment that I cannot imagine it not being endorsed and accepted by the Senate as a whole. In closing, I urge my colleagues to…
I intend to make some remarks at this time in strong opposition to the Kyl amendment, and then would plead to the managers of the bill--since the Kyl amendment nor nothing like it was included in the authorization bill that came out of the…
We have been bamboozled by the statements that an increase is a decrease only in the Nation's Capital. What we are talking about here are not increases in education funding, net, or increases in Medicare funding, net. What we are talking…
Yes, this is my last budget resolution forever. Sometimes I wonder if the chairman of the committee might like to say the same without giving up the leadership of the organization. But it has been a pleasure for 18 years to work with Pete…
Yes, I do believe that the Senator from Montana is correct in making that assumption. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a limited amount of mandatory programs under its jurisdiction to target for savings as part of a…
Yes, I do find that strange. The committee report for last year's budget resolution cited ANWR as the major mandatory savings assumption for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. indeed, it's inclusion in the final reconciliation…