Dale Bumpers

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

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…

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…

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…

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 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.

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…

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…

Do my colleagues realize that of the 1,200 sites on the Superfund list that 59 of the sites on the Superfund list are directly related to hardrock mining? We are spending millions of dollars a year right now of the taxpayers' money to…

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.

I appreciate the Senator's statement. My arguments are not punitive. I am not trying to punish the mining companies, and I am not trying to punish the people who work for the mining companies. Certainly the Senators who stand on the floor…

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…

That is much simpler, and I have not laid a minefield for myself. I am not going to be criticized for receiving $20, which somebody might do under the case I just gave you.

If a gift comes into my office, and I do not know what its value is, therefore, I do not know whether to keep it or return it. I know my secretary. She will call Woodies. Let us just assume that they say that gift sells here for $18.95…

Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter have an organization called Every Child By 2. They have been circling this country for about 4 years, trying to raise the awareness levels of people all over the country about the necessity of having the…

I have to tell you, she is not going to call the president of Chrysler. She is going to call their local lobbyist.

Senator, let us get back to my amendment. Can you quarrel with the premise of this amendment, which says that, under your provision, I am going to have to be very careful to keep a value of a gift under $20? As I say, that is tough enough…

Tell me precisely, because I want to make sure she does not get handcuffs put on her. Why is she exempt?

I am being a devil's advocate on that. Obviously, I am not going to let somebody bring that many gifts to my office. I am talking about possibilities.

My judgment may be wrong, and the Ethics Committee may say, ``Senator, are you telling me that you thought it was reasonable to take a bottle of wine from 20 different people on 5 different occasions each for a total of 100 bottles?''