Dale Bumpers

as everyone in this body knows I have been a vocal proponent of reforming the 1872 mining law. This 124-year-old anachronism continues to permit the extraction of billions of dollars' worth of hardrock minerals from public land without…

While he was saying, ``I can't spend a penny that Congress doesn't appropriate,'' he was never vetoing any money bills. He signed everything we sent him, and the people should be grateful, because while he was President, Congress…

when I was a young man the Governor of Tennessee, the then-Governor of Tennessee, Frank Clement, delivered the keynote address at the Democratic national convention. As I matured and studied speeches like that, I decided it was not quite…

Zero. You are wrong, Senator. It is less than 2 percent. Here is a program that was going to be matched 50-50 with private money and ultimately be all private money from foundations and individuals. And there you have it, $30 million of…

I wish to tell my colleagues, No. 1, this will be very short and sweet, and it will not require a rollcall. I am saying this to the distinguished floor managers on the assumption that the President is going to veto the bill and that the…

I think everybody here is extremely sympathetic to the majority leader's problem in trying to get these bills passed and to get us out of here for a recess that everybody is looking forward to. Now, the chairman of the committee has just…

I agree totally with that statement. As I think of those words and the author, I cannot help but wonder what Hubert Humphrey would think about a bill that said, ``If you are rich and affluent, we will make you more affluent; and if you are…

everybody knows that this amendment is a fair proposition. What Senator Graham and I are suggesting is that we divide all the money in the pot by the number of poor children in the country and we allocate it to the States based on the…

I am deeply troubled by the Dole proposal. I do not see how I can support it. One of the reasons I cannot support it is because there is no comprehensive plan on child care. Any welfare proposal that does not consider child care is doomed…

I thank the Senator. I stood here and pleaded with this body to put a moratorium to stop this practice, but lost 50-48. Four days later, the Stillwater Mining Co. filed an application with the Secretary for patents on approximately 2,000…

In the next 7 years, they will more than make up. You said ``Name one program.'' I will name them.

Let me say, the Senator from Indiana has said, name one program that suffered with the cuts that defense has taken. I am sorry I did not prepare for that particular question. But let me tell you why I am up here today. Right here on this…

I have watched on Discovery Channel for the past 2 months and on PBS all these battles of World War II, a lot of them the Russians against the Germans. Twenty-two million Russians died. They starved to death by the thousands at Leningrad…

All I heard was, ``The chiefs want it, the Secretary wants it,'' and now the chiefs do not want this. They did not even want the $7 billion that was added in committee, and they certainly do not want all this language in the bill. Chairman…

I do not know how more forcefully you can abrogate the treaty than to pass this bill. Now, obviously, it is not going to be abrogated until the Soviet Union gets a stomach full of this kind of stuff and withdraws from the treaty, which…

I do not believe in class warfare. I believe in fairness, justice, and the judicial system, as well as in our economy. What happened in the House last evening is one of the most bizarre things I have witnessed in my 20 years in the U.S…

I want to reiterate that I voted for an appropriations bill last year that had language in it saying that this money was going to be rescinded, and the House kept their word and they rescinded it. We are reneging on something we voted to…

But they are not committed and they are not proposing to be committed until the present study is completed and you will have plenty of time after that to decide and the Senate will, too. But for the time being, I am saying we ought to…

But the point that must not be lost sight of is we are not imposing anything. We are simply saying to the States, if you choose to do this, it is your prerogative. If you do not, that is also your prerogative. But we are also saying that…

I come today to introduce a bill dealing with the mail-order catalog business. This issue has become almost an obsession with me over the past 2 years, and one of the reasons for that obsession is that, before I became Governor of…

since last week's vote on the balanced budget amendment I have received calls and letters from people saying, ``Senator, you are going to be in big trouble if you run for reelection in 1998.'' My response is far better that I be in…

This simply says that the funds which have been allocated to NASA in 1995, $251.9 million, for cooperation with the United States-Russian MIR space station will be suspended effective 30 days after the adoption of this amendment until the…

As a result, the Bureau of Land Management had no choice but to give Barrick a deed to the 1,800 acres of land for $9,000; $5 an acre. According to Barrick--not Dale Bumpers--the land contains $10 billion dollars' worth of gold. And so…

First of all, I wish to say that it is not just me saying it, and perhaps the Senator from Utah would not wish to have commendations from this side of the aisle, but I do want to say that my opinion of him is shared by my colleagues. It…

I voted against it because I have a reverence for the Constitution of the United States. I do not want it trivialized. I do not want to put economic theory in it. I do not want to put an unenforceable requirement in it. I do not want to…