Dale Bumpers

I have no intention of speaking at length or trying to block any of their nominations. As far as I know, they are all very honorable people, and I come not to resist them, not even to admonish them, but to make a point which I hope they…

I come this morning sadly to eulogize one of the truly great political and intellectual giants of my home State of Arkansas. In a way, it is especially difficult for me because in 1974 I ran against him for the Senate. J.W. ``Bill''…

Again, just so we make this point, I am one of the people in this body, along with the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, who remembers well the Depression. I was just a child. We were very poor. There was no snob value in it…

I do want to say I am not so concerned about the requirement of a constitutional 60 percent, three-fifths vote in the Senate to balance the budget. That will almost certainly happen. I had my staff do a study of all the appropriations…

I did not utter one word yesterday on the balanced budget amendment. But I want to serve notice that I am going to.

I am saying that we have a perfect right to offer our amendments, and we are not going to be shut out if we can keep enough discipline to keep 41 votes in the saddle.

If I may continue on what the Senator from Ohio was saying, I am not a signatory to the contract. I was not asked to sign it, and, of course, would not have signed it had I been asked. It does not apply to me. What applies to me is to do…

I am going to wax eloquent. I hope the Senator from Maine will pay close attention, because what I am talking about makes eminent common sense. Last night, somebody said on the floor of the Senate: ``Call your Governor and see how he or…

Not yet. I am not trying to delay. I hope to be through here very shortly. I assume that the floor manager will wish to move to table. As I said, my design is not to try to impede the unfunded mandates bill. But 80 percent of the people…

How would you like to be Debbie White? She also sells wallpaper. How would you like to be Debbie White, paying State sales taxes, privilege taxes, every tax under the shining sun the State can impose on you, working just to keep your head…

let me address one of the things the Senator from Maine, Mr. Cohen, said about 6,000 different tax jurisdictions in the country. Our bill would involve only 45 different tax rates because it provides for a blended rate within each state…

I thought for a moment that the Senator from Idaho had explained this to me. But in looking it over again, I have difficulty getting the sequence of events as to how this is going to happen and in what sequence. It says that the third…

Let me make one observation. I am not going to pursue this and belabor it any further. But as I read this language here, Senator Chiles used to say ``the mother tongue is English,'' and this is the way I read this English. The sequence…

Certainly. So they say that because you goofed, we are going to take it upon ourselves to vastly reduce the mandate, no matter how critical it might be--it might be asbestos, water well pollution, or whatever, and they can say we are going…

the question was how much business is the catalog industry doing in this country? The answer is almost $100 billion a year and growing at a rate of 6 percent a year. To judge by the number of catalogs coming into my house, they are growing…

I just want to comment for a minute or two, because I know the other Senator from Maine wishes to be heard. No. 1, if I were a Senator from Maine I would be making the same speech I just heard. The second biggest catalog sales house in the…

We give the agency the right to say that they do not have to implement that mandate. If they find there is less money than is necessary to carry out the mandate, you give them the option of reducing the mandate or torpedoing the mandate…

If I may make an observation, then I will withdraw from this colloquy. This would have been much better, in my opinion--and I would want to think about it because there are probably better solutions--but if the language of this bill had…

If I may comment on that very last sentence, this says that if the appropriation is less than the amount this agency determines to be needed to fully implement the mandate, you are giving that agency two options as I read this. They can…

first of all, I commend the author of this amendment, my good friend, Senator Wellstone, for the thoughtfulness of his amendment. It may not be perfectly worded. Oftentimes, we understand the thrust of amendments that come up in the…

this is indeed a sad day for me personally and, though Americans may not realize it, it is a sad day for them, too. The other morning, I read where former Secretary Cheney said he was not going to run for President and, in a spate of…

I send seven separate bills to the desk that I am offering on behalf of myself, Senators Bradley, Kohl, Feingold, Pryor, Wellstone, Lautenberg, and other Senators. Just briefly, Mr. President, those bills contain seven specific spending…

if anybody heard that giant sucking sound this afternoon at 1 p.m., it was the sound of $11 billion worth of gold and 1,800 acres of land being transferred from all the people of America--the taxpayers of America--to a Canadian gold mining…

I hope that the Senator--and I know he would--hopes that we come out with something that is good for the American people and not just the mining companies.

This land we are talking about, Barrick did not even file a claim for that land. Somebody else did. You know, people go out there and they put up stakes and they just lay claim to it. Do you know what Barrick did? They found this site. The…