Dale Bumpers

the Senator from Idaho raised a question about timber. I do not understand the relevance of it. We do set aside timber for small business people. Even so, timber is sold on a competitive basis. If you want to start leasing 270 million…

Karl Hess, Jr., a senior fellow at the Cato Institute--that is not exactly the citadel of liberalism down here--says: Domenici's bill is bad for ranchers, bad for public lands, and bad for the American taxpayer. It will not improve…

Twelve years is a long time. You cannot compare timber sales, which are let competitively, to a permit which you give some corporation like Anheuser-Busch or Hewlett-Packard, simply because they own a few hundred acres in their own right…

I do not want to belabor these rich folks too long. The last one that I want to point out to for the edification of my colleagues is the gentleman by the name of J. R. Simplot from the great State of Idaho. He is 86 years old and has…

They were raised on private land. However, other people in Arkansas currently graze on Forest Service lands. Moreover, fees paid on eastern Forest Service lands, including Arkansas, are currently calculated using a formula that is…

The reason I have strong objection to that--and I am going to talk a great deal about that--is that the Jeffords amendment is an amendment with which I agree. I like it. I like it in some respects better than I do my own. I want for the…

I would like to open my remarks by simply saying that this amendment is not vindictive, it is not designed to put small ranchers out of business, and indeed it would not. I consider it to be an eminently fair amendment. Mr. President, for…

I understand current procedures for such purchases require an inspector of the National Marine Fisheries Service to be present at all times during processing. Would the Senator's amendment prohibit the presence of any Federal inspector…

the chairman of the Small Business Committee, my colleague, Senator Bond, made a magnificent statement on this very comprehensive bill. As Mo Udall used to say, ``Just about everything that needs to be said has been said, but everybody…

I am pleased to cosponsor S. 942 and the pending managers' amendment with the distinguished chairman of our committee, Senator Bond. This bill is one of the most significant accomplishments of the 104th Congress, and it is one of the best…

I was curious about two things. No. 1, has the Senator offered his amendment that would require the Federal Government to buy back from the Alaskan salmon industry $23 million worth of Alaskan salmon?

It does not require the Federal Government to spend anything for Alaskan salmon?

All the amendment says is, if any salmon is purchased, it would eliminate the dual inspection?

Senator, what is the purpose of the amendment? Why do you want to eliminate the Department of Agriculture's right to determine the quality of the fish?

let me begin by saying I hope the Senator from New Hampshire and the senior Senator from Texas will look very carefully at this amendment and accept it. It is not only a harmless amendment, it is a very beneficial amendment. It is an…

First, the 19 restrictions that were put on the corporation's grantees are not touched in this amendment. They are still intact. Many of them deal with lobbying. Second, no Federal funds can be used to carry out the actions permitted by…

Can the Senator assure the Senate that his amendment would eliminate the necessity for two inspections? Specifically, an inspection by the Department of Agriculture that would apply to all commodities bought by the Department of…

Does the Senator assure me and the other Senators here that there is nothing in this amendment that would require USDA, or any other Government agency, to buy any salmon in any amount?

Let me ask the Senator from Alaska who, in his opinion, would inspect this salmon for quality--not for safety, but for quality? Some of it is graded, I guess No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4. Who does that inspection?

first, I want to express my sincere appreciation to the chairman of the Small Business Committee, my distinguished colleague, Senator Bond, who has spoken very eloquently about this whole issue. Second, I want to say that all the concerns…

the reason I strongly favor this substitute is because it salvages rice markets. Under the freedom-to-farm bill, payments start out big, peak in the third year, and they go down after that. Right now, cotton, wheat, and corn, three of the…

as Laurel used to say, ``We have gotten ourselves into a fine fix.'' There is something about this whole thing that obviously is eluding me. I must confess that a lot of my farmers, or at least the organizations, have gone from being…

I am concerned about this. I am vitally interested in the farm bill. I have no objection whatever going to the telecommunications bill. But if at some point this afternoon some sort of a compromise is reached, I hope that we will not have…

for the first time in nearly half a century, we are rapidly approaching the end of the first month of the first year in which American farmers are without a farm bill. To those not directly engaged in agriculture, this fact may be little…

Tomorrow is the drop-dead date for Congress on how we will keep the Government going. In addition, the deadline is fast approaching on honoring the full faith and the credit clause of the Constitution. I say not only to the people of this…