Dale Bumpers: “Is the State of Idaho willing to take over this cleanup site and absolve the U.S. Government of any further liability?”

let me just say to what few colleagues may be listening, in 1976, the Secretary of the Interior was charged with the responsibility of making sure that people who mine on Federal lands belonging to the taxpayers of America, not cause undue…

This is the amendment that Senator Hatch and I agreed to this morning which would modify the grand jury amendment that I lost. This morning, Senator Hatch and I agreed to a plan that recommended that the issue be submitted to the Judicial…

the administration had previously, and may still have, serious objections to the Murkowski amendment. But he and I had a conversation this morning. He has modified his amendment. The modification is at the desk. For the edification of our…

I have lost this amendment several times. As you have heard me say previously, this is the seventh or eighth year that I have offered this proposal. Every year the specious, absolutely false arguments are made that people don't want any…