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Has the Senator ever considered the possibility of having these people proceed as they have with the identification of an endangered species, and then, before we added more species to that list, it be voted on by the Congress of the United…
I am not a member of the committee so I am not fully informed on all of these issues. I appreciate very much the explanation that is being given by my friend from Nevada. Under the system that we have always had with regard to the…
Let me see if I understand the amendment the Senator is offering. As I understand it, the situation we are now confronted with is that the continuing resolutions that have been offered, the series of them and potentially more, in each and…
I wanted to discuss the merits of the transition act, because there are many. But instead, as I listened to the conversation on the floor this afternoon about welfare and about the eventual outcome of the program and whether or not it…
I appreciate the Senator's raising the issue of this provision. I certainly agree with her that any discussion about abortion is protected by the first amendment guarantee of free speech. I certainly agree that nothing in this title should…
To build upon what the Senator just said, I placed in the Record the other day the farm welfare program, the so-called Freedom to Farm Act. It would provide a massive amount, thousands of dollars a year, to a farmer whether or not the…
I believe the date was November 6, maybe 60 days ago. The timeframe may be a little over a month. But the Senator is absolutely correct, regardless of the date, there was a dramatic change overnight, without any explanation from the Farm…
There is nothing that has a better chance for the hope of mankind in the future than the overwhelming approval of the START II Treaty. When it is implemented, it will reduce the number of nuclear warheads both in Russia and the United…
I suggest that never before in history have we been so late in deciding what a farm program is going to be in the year that the crop is going to be planted. That has to stop. I do not know how to end this impasse that we have but the…
I ask the Senator from Montana a question: Does he believe that the people of the United States, having granted a franchise to somebody to operate a service using a piece of the frequency bandwidth, should say, ``You own it, do whatever…
I am perfectly willing to have a debate about the comparative analysis between the Homestead Act and private property and franchises granted to phone companies to have a monopoly to deliver a local telephone service or to a television…
It is not the same. Mr. President, I ask the Senator from Montana, did the Senator believe we should not pass laws restricting what broadcasters can put over the airwaves? We do not have similar laws for people in their home. I can engage…
I can answer the question, now I understand what the Senator is saying. You are saying that bandwidth and a piece of real estate are the same? They are not the same. In that regard they are not the same. The people's airwaves are licensed.
If you want to talk of the Homestead Act, it has many specific requirements for the individual to develop, and if they worked the land and developed the land, they owned the land.
First of all, I ask my friend from North Dakota, Mr. President, is it not the case that one of the arguments we have heard all along for this bill that we are going to get more competition? Are Time Warner and Turner competitive?
Will we not get less competition as a consequence of bringing these two companies together?
As a consequence of the Domenici amendment, an offset is not needed. That is what my modification did, was to strike it. His is a straightforward argument against this amendment. It can only be made on the basis the Senator from Texas…
It may well be that the Senator from Florida did not understand. That was incorporated in the amendment and was suggested as an exception by the Senator from Wyoming. And I think it satisfies the concerns of the Senator from Florida. It is…