the Appropriations Committee proposed a cut of funding to $13 million. I do not think we are involved, here, in a bean-counting debate. The question is, what does it take to do the job? If we go back to the initiation of the framework…

I would like to add, as chairman of the Energy and Natural Resource Committee, my satisfaction with the negotiations. I know the agony associated with this issue relative to Nevada. Unfortunately, we simply have to put this waste…

According to Mr. Panetta, the President opposes our bill since it would designate Nevada as the interim site without determining the viability of Yucca Mountain, NV, as a permanent repository. Let me provide the White House with a little…

much has been made here of the so- called nuclear lobby relative to this bill and the status of the issue we have before us. Let's not be misled. We have letters from 22 States to the President and Members of Congress; 11 from Governors…

First of all, the bill we have before us, S. 1936, is really an important bill that does two significant things. First, it keeps a promise, a promise that was made to the taxpayers of this country who have contributed about $12 billion…

the letter is rather significant because, while it acknowledges the consequences for the ratepayers and the legitimacy of cleanup of our nuclear waste complex, it does not address anything positive relative to responding to the dilemma…

Dear Senator Daschle: I would like to express the Administration's position on S. 1936, a bill to create a centralized interim high-level nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada. The Administration cannot support this bill, and the…

this letter does not address the question of what the administration proposes as an answer if it does not like what we come up with. It simply acknowledges the two letters of the President. It indicates that: With respect to the proposal…

I would like to bring the attention of this body to a piece of legislation that is pending, S. 1888, the Energy Policy Conservation Act extension. I think my friend from Georgia will find it does have an application to the defense of our…

After receiving these views from the legislature and the Governor, I scheduled two oversight hearings on May 28 and May 29 in Ketchikan and Juneau, respectively. What I heard at these hearings was overwhelming support for the legislature's…

I introduced the bill late yesterday, and I did not have an opportunity to speak on it. This particular piece of legislation would provide for timber contract extension. The bill would extend for 15 years the long-term timber sale contract…

today a giant in the annals of the U.S. Senate, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, the Republican leader, has chosen to leave this great institution to pursue and, I believe to win the Presidency of the United States. The Senate will never be…

Mr. President, yesterday the trustees of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds released their long-awaited annual report, and that report confirms our worst fears that the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund--which pays for the…

this is an important time of the year for Americans: It is among the first weeks of the summer vacation and recreation season, and it is National Fishing Week. Millions of Americans are either tuning their boat engines, tying flies…

I am going to vote for this balanced budget amendment because I believe nothing short of amending the Constitution is going to change our addiction to spending and living beyond our means. I recall back in 1962 the Federal Government's…

I thank the Chair. An interesting fundraising letter came to my attention. It was written by actress Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley's former wife. Accompanying the letter was another from actor, Robert Redford. These letters are…

in the interest of moving the budget process along, I am withdrawing my amendment, but I want to assure my colleagues, until our President orders his legal counsel to drop this argument in court, I will be raising this issue on every bill…

Mr. President, these amendments are not binding; they do not shift a single dollar from one program to another. They merely allow both Republicans and Democrats to engage in strategies of gamesmanship which deceive the American people…

It flies in the face of the 207-year-old tradition established by George Washington that the U.S. military should be under civilian control.

Mr. President, along with Senators Warner, Chafee and McCain, who are cosponsors, I believe what we have here is an assertion without precedent. The President of the United States claims in a brief filed in the Supreme Court that a pending…

As the commander of the American Legion said: ``We've had plenty of great Americans take off a military uniform to assume the Presidency. None has ever put on a uniform after Inauguration Day.'' As a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard…

I find it rather curious he is speaking in opposition to asset sales today when he voted for them. We had the privatization of the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, supported by the Clinton administration. It is my understanding it would be…

as he so eloquently pointed out, this is somewhat of a charade. The American people assume that what we are doing here, debating at length, has a binding commitment of some sort. But sense-of-the-Senate resolutions, as the Senator from New…

when Congress passed the North American Free-Trade Agreement [NAFTA] it imposed a $6.50 fee for the arrival of each passenger aboard a commercial vessel or aircraft coming in from outside the customs territory of the United States. NAFTA…

I thank the Chair. I know it is getting late and my colleagues would like to go home and have dinner, but I am sure that we all share in this extraordinary opportunity to say a few words about our leader, Senator Bob Dole, and his…