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Now, there are what are termed ``declared nuclear states,'' and there are five of those, one of which is China. The Senator has indicated, and I have seen it elsewhere, that China has indicated that it is going to test again. What happens…

Is it fair to say and is it accurate to say that with the Kyl-Reid amendment in place it is more restrictive on the conditions for nuclear testing?

I also note that I think those men and women in uniform that are wearing the stars as general officers are good soldiers. The Commander in Chief submitted the budget, and they have to support that budget. But I will tell you they are…

On behalf of Senators Grassley, Boxer and Harkin, I offer an amendment which would place a limitation of $200,000 on the amount of annual individual compensation that may be reimbursable under contracts with the Department of Defense.

I would like to reference the moratorium on the listing of the endangered species. The appropriations bill before us continues the moratorium language that has been in previous bills before this Congress. I remind all of us that the…

This should not be a contest to see who is more for the environment. We should all be in favor of a cleaner, safer, healthier America for our children and their children. I have called myself a probusiness environmentalist. We have been…

It has taken a lot of effort to get the administration to admit that grazing rights on the refuges were retained by the previous landowners when the land was transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Service. As things stand right now, there…

Will the majority leader agree that in the event the Congressional Budget Office determines that there are any unfunded mandates in S. 562 that he will work with me to make technical corrections in the bill to eliminate those mandates.

The majority leader is aware that State and local governments had previously raised an issue with this Senator that certain provisions of the conference report on S. 562 may violate the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 regarding local…

The majority leader is aware that the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 does not require the Congressional Budget Office to prepare an estimate of the impact of mandates on State and local governments for conference reports and that the…

I appreciate that; and so to emphasize again this is talking about when a person is seeking to use their own private property in a way that could cause damage to someone else's property, and somehow final agency action becomes involved…

I would ask the gentleman one other question. On section 5, as we have talked earlier today, subsection 2 says, ``No compensation is made under this act with regard to damage to specific property, other than the property whose use is…

In that context, then, the agency would not be able to continuously, budget cycle after budget cycle, dodge the obligation of payment here by simply programming funds around or saying that the funds were insufficient?

Just to follow up on that, Mr. Chairman, if an agency failed to pay a claim and then stated their reason was they did not have money in their claim fund or whatever part of their budget was allocated to payment of claims, as I read the…

That is the question. Does that change also that portion of the act which simply is talking about the specific property impacted to say we are talking about all of the property owned by the property owner?

As I read it, the amendment says neither the sufficiency nor any other aspect of a private property impact analysis under this section is subject to judicial review.

I would just ask one question. I thought the gentlewoman said at the beginning of her debate that under this amendment, there would be a right for judicial review or the opportunity to go to court.

We have to understand, in this debate, the difference between protections under the U.S. Constitution and what this statute seeks to do. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the constitutional protections relate to what amounts to a…