Dale Bumpers

So the Senator sees no inequity in the fact that the State of Montana leases its lands at $4.05 an AUM and the Federal Government receives $1.35? That doesn't bother the Senator?

You understand, of course, that some of the biggest corporations, and these billionaires who own hundreds of thousands of AUM's, if they had to pay more or if they gave it up, that would make a little room for some of the little ranchers…

Senator, we single out rich people with a little higher tax rate than we do poor people.

I want to add one point about the cost of keeping the astronauts supplied with in water in space. As I said before, it will cost $12,880 per pound to ship water to the space station. With each astronaut allocated 9.5 liters of water per…

I want to clarify the record on one thing, before Senator Heflin leaves the floor. As he knows, he and I talked about it, I also have a stent in my heart. We are getting conflicting information. My doctor told me he was part of the team…

This amendment would terminate NASA's space station program... I believe very strongly that we are embarked on the expenditure of $100 billion that, in the final analysis, is going to be considered... as a terrible financial disaster. We…

The seasonal base plans reauthorized by this bill are merely intended to level production and prices over the year to stabilize the market and are not intended to provide any price enhancement or production incentives, measured on a yearly…

They are not going to get very much, but why do you want to lock in an inequity? You say it has always been unequal but want to lock it in?

Thems the facts,'' and that is what brings us here today: using a constitutional amendment as a figleaf, a political ploy to keep from making the hard decisions just as they did in 1993, just as they will in 1996. Finally, I am not voting…

I do not know a single person in the Senate that I want to defer to instead of James Madison, defer to instead of Benjamin Franklin, defer to instead of John Adams or John Jay. Arthur Schlesinger, one of the preeminent historians of this…

If we did not have to pay interest on just the increased deficit that was accumulated when Ronald Reagan was President, we would not be standing here debating today because we would have a nice healthy surplus.

This amendment, the second-degree amendment, is precisely the same amendment as my first-degree amendment which was taken down by the McCain amendment. The McCain amendment does one thing that is good. It says that you cannot sell an asset…

We would rather like to offer the asset sales first and then get the second one disposed of one way or the other.

The question is, who are the enemies against whom we must spend $265 billion? Who are the enemies that we feel constrained to spend over $1.6 trillion over the next 6 years to defend against? The Senator from Illinois, [Mr. Simon], said a…

I have to admit that over the period of this budget resolution, there is a sum total of $11 billion difference between the Republican budget proposal and this amendment--$11 billion.

And come back to this floor and do something very responsible that would be very pleasing to the people of this country. If the people of our country saw the Democrats and the Republicans joining hands, to pass more than 50 pieces of…

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…

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 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…

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?

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?

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…

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?

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?