Dale Bumpers

let me just, first of all, express my profound thanks to the distinguished Senator from Illinois for her sensitivity and sincere compassion over what is the most traumatic event, perhaps ever, in my State. We have tornadoes and we lose a…

The suggested figure of $195,000 is not a binding cap on the funds potentially available to FARAD in fiscal year 1998. I understand that grants under the Smith Lever 3(d) Food Safety program will be awarded in the near future and that…

I yield to no Senator, with the possible exception of Robert C. Byrd from the great State of West Virginia, in my contempt for and disdain for the line-item veto bill that we passed in the 104th Congress and which two district courts have…

I rise this afternoon not just in support of but in strong support of the nomination of Dr. David Satcher to be Surgeon General of the United States. I also want to state that I have a personal prejudice because I have worked closely with…

I have included this history of funding to show how the amount of appropriations for FDA salaries and expenses has increased every single year since fiscal year 1988 except for the period between fiscal year 1995 and fiscal year 1997 when…

on September 23 of this year, my colleague, Senator Cochran, chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies, rose on the floor of the Senate to express objection to a provision of the…

Senator, if I could just make one last comment. This is not in defense of the IRS, just simply an observation. The truth of the matter is a lot of people resent the taxes they have to pay. That is a given. My salary is paid by the…

Now, assuming that the IRS does not get a conviction in that case, then is the taxpayer entitled to attorney fees?

I don't know the answer either. I think under existing law, and certainly under the Hyde amendment, you would be entitled to attorney fees if you were--I forget the exact language, something to the effect that if you have been frivolously…

My question is, if you do recover the $5,000 in tax court, are you automatically entitled to attorney's fees under this bill?

First of all, when I was Governor of my State, one of the first orders I issued was that any employee of the Arkansas Revenue Department would be summarily fired if it was found that that employee, without provocation, was rude to a…

I think one thing that I must say is that, in my opinion, this $220 billion industry can cope with this bill--not only cope with it, but that industry, business, and the consumers of this country will all benefit from this, and the Nation…

I rise to day to introduce the Transition to Electric Competition Act of 1997 along with my colleague from the State of Washington, Senator Gorton. This bill provides for the transition toward deregulation and competition in the electric…

from 1993 to 1997, the Navy retired seven Los Angeles class attack submarines--seven in that 4-year period. In that same period, we were in the process of building three Seawolf submarines at a cost of $13.2 billion. Not one of those…

this morning, I was reading the New York Times and came across an article truly exhilarating to me. It dealt with a matter that the Presiding Officer is all too familiar with, too. A number of large States are in the process of negotiating…

I have felt very strongly about this issue for a long time, so strongly that earlier this year I introduced my own bill to provide for public financing of campaigns. I think I could probably say without fear of contradiction--and at my age…

there is a lot of talk now since the President has announced that the deficit this year for 1997 is, I believe, $22.6 billion. That is an incredible figure. In 1993, you are looking at a Senator who was genuinely concerned, really…

everybody has heard that old expression about fools walk in where angels fear to tread. I have heard as a practicing lawyer, as a citizen and certainly as a Member of the U.S. Senate, as many tales about the IRS as anybody in this body…

Now, I wonder if the Senator has seen some figures provided by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition as to what the Otter Creek tracts are worth. Let me preface that statement by saying I think the people who are following this bill are under…

So we are only authorizing under this bill, and subject to the 180 days within which the committees have to act, we are only authorizing the expenditure of $250 million for Headwaters Forest?

My question is, if the appraisal came out that the Headwaters Forest was worth more than $250 million, would the President have the authority to spend more money out of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to pay the appraised price?

But another item that I think the administration is terribly concerned about is the provision in the bill that says "no funds can be spent to revise forest plans until new final interim or final rules for forest land management planning…

Now, if the President were to veto the bill, because it contained some fairly stringent conditions that he found odious and the Congress did not override it, would the President still have authority to go ahead and make the purchase?

With regard to the payment to the State of Montana, there is a provision in this bill--and I will not read the whole provision--but it says essentially that not later than January 1, the year 2001, but not prior to 180 days from…

I will engage the distinguished manager of the bill in a short colloquy, but let me start off by saying that there are parts of this bill that are confusing because any bill of this magnitude obviously has some things that are hard to…