Dale Bumpers: “I thank the Senator for his always generous and thoughtful accommodation of other Senators. As I said, I am willing to…”

“I thank the Senator for his always generous and thoughtful accommodation of other Senators. As I said, I am willing to set this amendment aside until 2:15 tomorrow at the conclusion of the few remarks I have to make here. That will give the managers and perhaps the majority leader an opportunity to badger and cajole other Members to bring amendments to the floor if they have them. We can take that up in the morning, then, debate other amendments, and come back to this at 2:15 tomorrow and maybe have 20 minutes or 30 minutes, by agreement. I just wanted to challenge some of the things I have heard from the opponents of this amendment. No. 1, the Senator from Wyoming pointed out that there are grazing associations which several members belong to under one permit or one name. The association would control more than 2,000 AUM's, and therefore they would lose the advantage of their association. The truth of the matter is, our amendment specifically exempts those people. So the statement of the Senator from Wyoming was totally incorrect. If I may, I will just read the amendment: For the purposes of this section, individual members of a grazing association shall be considered as individual permittees or lessees in determining the appropriate grazing fee. That takes care of that argument. The Senator from New Mexico said this amendment was precisely the one we voted on in March. That is totally incorrect.”