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Madam President, let me just point out that this program ought to be eliminated. The Senate has been resistant. But the Senate has gone on record twice as having said the program ought to be limited to $70 million. The present level would…
I supported this compromise legislation in the Senate Finance Committee, and I intend to support its passage on the floor as well. While there are many aspects of this legislation which I believe could be improved, I applaud Chairman Roth…
Mr. President, this is the wrong place and the wrong time to be considering an amendment of this nature. This would make a fundamental change in the tax law with respect to the percentage depletion for the recovery of mineral deposits, a…
I must say that I regret the decision of the Senator from Arkansas. He has a distinguished record of public service in his own State as Governor and as a Member of this body. I have been pleased to share common cause with him on many, many…
as I have indicated, there is broad agreement within the industry that the mining law of 1872 needs to be updated. There is agreement in those areas that have been identified as: 5 percent net proceeds royalty; the fair market value of the…
today Senator Bond, Senator Moseley-Braun, and I are introducing legislation to require stocks to be traded in a much more consumer-friendly fashion with the added benefit of saving investors billions of dollars. Mr. President, I send that…
Many of our senior citizens are once again being targeted by scam artists. This time, senior citizens are being charged excessive fees by so-called estate planners who provide information on reverse mortgages and charge 8 percent to 10…
Any Senator who believes we do not eviscerate and emasculate the standards set by the National Academy of Science, look at page 37, my friends. That is why no environmental organization in America supports it; they all oppose it.
what the Senate is asked to do this morning is a total repudiation and rejection of good science. S. 104 is opposed by the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, a body of eminent scientists, created pursuant to an act of Congress. They…
I do not, Mr. President, want to take much time to talk about the merits of S. 104 because, as we will point out later, S. 104 is a very bad piece of legislation and, in my view, is a policy disaster. It is unnecessary. There are…
I want to return to the starting point for just a moment to talk about this being unnecessary legislation--unnecessary in that the policy and the scientific community disagree with its very premise. Now, when you look at the various groups…
Is the Senator from Idaho aware of the fact that there has never been a contemplated interim storage facility at Yucca Mountain? I understood part of the colloquy, that the Senator was suggesting Yucca Mountain as the site for the interim…
I have never challenged the Senator's math. That was not the subject that I either excelled in or like. But it seems to me that the Senator is right. I remind my senior colleague that we had an accident, as I recall in 1982, in Livingston…
What is contemplated is interim storage at the Nevada test site. The Nevada test site and Yucca Mountain are two separate geographical areas. And the Senator was asking our distinguished chairman a series of questions. Does the Senator…
I would say to my senior colleague, his guess is as good as mine. But we know this. We know that there are 43 States that have corridor routes. I envy our friend from Alaska with whom we have been engaged in this debate over the last few…
It strikes me as curious, if I am hearing the Senator respond, that, indeed, the senior Senator and I have introduced for a number of years legislation that would accomplish the same provision that exists in the contract; namely, to the…
But the option was whether the utilities--if I am correctly informed, and I certainly stand to be corrected--can take the option not to pay, which would mean that it would be years before that payment would be due.
Will the Senator agree that S. 104 holds out a false promise, that somehow, if it were enacted, everything would disappear and wind up near Las Vegas?
I simply say, not to be argumentative with the chairman, but if the utilities had elected not to make that payment--one would assume they are acting in their own self-interest--this will now compel them to make the payment before they have…
Mr. President, I understand the concern that my friend from Tennessee has. It is a concern that Nevadans have had for many years. Let me say where I respectfully disagree with him is that if he is concerned about the movement of nuclear…
The point being is, that we do not have a site-selection process here that has any rationale. And I guess the last question I would ask, because the Nevada test site has been an area that has been used, as the Senator correctly points out…
I appreciate the Senator may not have that. But the point that I think needs to be made--if the testing schedule at the Nevada test site should continue at its historical rate, it would take between 10,000 and 100,000 years of that testing…
We have heard considerable debate in the Chamber here about the horrendous liability that may exist out there because everyone concedes that the Department would not be able to physically accept possession of the waste in 1998. I thought I…
And they could use that as an offset in terms of what they are paying into the Nuclear Waste trust fund right now.
So the argument that we have heard in the Chamber that ratepayers will pay twice is specious, because to the extent that after 1998 nuclear waste would not be taken physically from a site, it cannot be under any scenario, the ratepayers…
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