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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…
The Senator from Montana is correct. in fact, this billion dollars of savings amounts to almost 75 percent of the required savings the Energy and Natural Resources must produce in order to comply with the Republican budget resolution.
I do not expect to persuade a majority, Mr. President. This is an amendment that will have a tremendous impact on the future budget outlays and appropriations of this Congress. As everybody that has examined the facts knows, unless we make…
The Democrat leader would have properly talked to me. He did not. I will talk to him about that.
I simply point out that this amendment will cost over $33 billion and does not say how we will pay for it. Another way of saying that is that this is a political amendment to make a political statement without saying how we are going to…
What the amendment does, simply said, is we can do nothing in these considerations that will further weaken or hurt the trust fund. That is basically what it does. The amendment of the Senator from Texas hurts the solvency of the fund…
I noted with interest the comment the Senator from Texas made. We just debated it a day or so ago. The provisions of the 1993 act that have been roundly criticized and are again being criticized now, raised taxes on only the top 13…
The same thing was said by the Office of Management and Budget director under President Reagan. His name was David Stockman, and he admitted publicly--and I believe wrote in a book--that it was a sham all the way through. In fact, he used…
The Senator and I have appealed over and over again to people to come to the floor or at least call us and tell us they are not going to offer the amendments. We have heard nothing from our side of the aisle on that. If the Senator has…
Time and time again, we are proving the point that the theory behind the ruling of the Chair, as we understand it, which is totally faulty, has been destroyed --that theory has been destroyed completely--by the fact that we have proven…
Before the Senator from North Dakota leaves, may I ask a question of the Senator from North Dakota? We heard a great deal and we have had a lot of criticism from that side of the aisle on the President's budget with the idea that it has a…
I agree with Chairman Domenici that possibly out of these discussions tonight and the general tenor of the responses on each side lead me to also agree that we can have a breakthrough. I would simply say that I happen to feel that the…
If we prohibit them, what would be the result? Frankly, I do not think very much, because Senators would, as a substitute, offer small changes in dollars in a regular amendment with some very long statements of the purpose. There is no…
I simply say that I am opposed to the amendment offered by the Senator from Missouri for the reasons that I stated previously. We still do not know the details of where the offsets would come from to make up for the big, huge tax decrease…
Could I add one thing that I think should be driven home? If we are going to expedite this process, we are going to have to have people who are on the list to come and offer their amendments on Friday, or on Monday and not leave here…