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If I might inquire of the Senator, the SEC, as I understand it, has sent over a definition of 'reckless.' If that could be included in the findings of fact as opposed to the report language, I think it would strengthen what we all seek to…
Is the Senator also suggesting that a remedy available at the State court level against an accomplice, whether it be a lawyer or an accountant, that would be available to the investor under State law, if removed under the process of the…
We are talking about, if I understand, conduct that is more egregious even than gross negligence. We are talking about an utter disregard of the facts and the consequences that flow from that?
Mr. President, April 15, the day on which we pay our annual tribute to the IRS, will never be one of the happiest days on the calendar for Americans. It is a time in which all of us are required to pay that which we owe to the Federal…
I will correct some misimpressions that may have been unintentionally offered here on the floor of the Senate. I think it is helpful to put this in some context. This proposal, which has been offered by the Senator from Arkansas on…
what is at issue here is whether States, through their elected Governors and State legislatures, will determine what the scope of gaming is in a particular State, or whether that decision should be made by the Secretary of the Interior…
Mr. President, I think it is helpful to our colleagues if we put this amendment in some context. In 1988, the Congress enacted the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. That act says that to the extent that States permit gaming activities within…
I am dismayed to hear that there are continuing efforts to process through this Congress an ill-conceived piece of legislation that would establish a temporary nuclear waste dump in my State at the Nevada test site. I believe those efforts…
The Senator is correct. As you have mentioned, the Lake Tahoe Basin consists of parts of two states, 4 counties, 3 National Forests, and one city. However, as the Bi-State Compact recognizes, the Basin has unique environmental needs that…
Our legislation makes it clear that there will be a representative of a federal land management agency on the Lake Tahoe MPO. This is only reasonable.
I agree with the Senator. Our legislation addresses the fact that the federal government is the biggest property owner in the Basin. As such, there is a need for federal involvement in both the planning and program implementation of…
There should not be an impact. This MPO should not affect other program aspects under Title 23. The section we have written is designed to allow Tahoe to organize for transportation. There is no intent to change other policies of the…
I want to put those comments and those ads in some perspective so that no one should be misled by the assertions of the nuclear utility industry. The genesis of our current policy with respect to disposal of high-level waste traces its…
Senators Enzi, Reid and I are today introducing legislation to stop the Interior Department from moving forward with regulations that in my view trample on States rights and invade the province of Governors and State legislators to…
The Governors have repeatedly called the Secretary's proposal an inappropriate expansion of his authorities. Governors of the State in the process of negotiating a gaming compact with tribes will be severely disadvantaged by this proposal…
Yesterday, in perhaps the most antienvironmental vote of the Congress, the House of Representatives passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997. Like the Senate bill that passed earlier this year, the House bill unfairly targets Nevada, a…
I am most troubled by the conferees' treatment of the Forest Service purchaser road credit program. During this body's consideration of the Interior appropriations bill, I offered an amendment to eliminate this environmentally destructive…
we hear that opponents of McCain-Feingold have argued for the need to codify the Beck decision. Senators Feingold and McCain have done just that by including a provision that expressly codifies the Supreme Court decision. Now, however…
earlier today the Labor Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing on a report prepared by the National Cancer Institute regarding the health effects of fallout from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the…
I believe that it does not in any way interfere with the operation of existing tribal-State compacts. It has no operative effect on those agreements, and I do not understand that the Senator from Wyoming intends to have any operating…
Secretary Glickman's letter is in strong support of the amendment that I am offering this afternoon. I also add, Mr. President, that the amendment is also strongly supported by a broad coalition of environmental and taxpayer organizations…
This amendment is not about timber harvesting in the national forests. It does not prevent it. And it does not prevent the construction of new roads in the national forests for purposes of timber access. What it does is to eliminate a…
I am always pleased, when I have the opportunity, as I do this afternoon, to support, and in this instance actually propose, legislation that benefits both the American taxpayer and the environment. The amendment I am offering today…
I was somewhat astounded by the debate because those who oppose the amendment try to frame an issue that is not part of our discussion or our amendment today. I think in so doing they are trying to obfuscate the issues we are dealing with…
Whose side are you on? Those who support the Bryan amendment are on the side of the American taxpayer. I believe that whether you come from a farm State or nonfarm State, when you are told that your hard-earned tax dollars go to foreign…
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