I will join the Senator from Texas in seeking every opportunity to do that, because prisoners should be working. These prisoners that he referenced should not be sitting in the air-conditioned cells watching color TV all day with three…

I make it very clear at the outset what this issue in this particular amendment is not about. It is not about whether you are pro-life or pro-choice. This amendment is about where those abortions may be performed and whether they are paid…

My amendment would have allowed property owners who grant conservation easements to exclude the value of property from estate tax. That would make it easier for families to keep their property intact and at the same time will benefit…

The second incentive would have provided property owners an exclusion from estate taxes for property that is set aside in a conservation easement. Over the past few years, as I've been working on legislation to reauthorize the Endangered…

it was my intention to introduce today an amendment to provide three new tax incentives for private property owners who want to conserve land for the preservation of endangered, threatened, and other species. But the amendments were…

today it is a great honor for me to join in this tribute to a remarkable man who has established a remarkable career, Senator Strom Thurmond. Senator Thurmond has served America as a teacher, as an athletic coach, an attorney, a judge, an…

I rise today to submit a Senate resolution designating May 15, 1997, as National Peace Officers Memorial Day. This is the fourth year in a row I have offered this resolution and I am proud to be joined this year by 55 of my colleagues in…

I ask the Senator from Alaska, and point out the Senator from Alaska and my friend from Idaho, Senator Craig, have warned the Senate, in light of the Department of Energy's admission that it will not be able to meet its legal obligation to…

In fact, is it not true that S. 104 gives the President 18 months to designate another interim storage site if Yucca Mountain is found unsuitable for a permanent repository?

I appreciate that. Is it true that utilities currently store spent nuclear fuel in temporary--I underscore temporary--storage facilities that were never intended for long-term storage?

To demonstrate, Mr. President, the fact this is a serious problem for many States, I ask the chairman of the Energy Committee, is it true that many States, such as Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, South Carolina, Illinois, New…

I appreciate that point by the Senator from Nevada. Again, based upon this very series of questions and discussion I have had with the Senator from Nevada, it demonstrates there has been a tremendous history and knowledge over dealing with…

So we have an affirmation by the courts that title is to be taken by the Federal Government, and we have the Department of Energy that has not sought to appeal that and, in fact, I remember, the Assistant Secretary of Energy, Tom Grumbly…

Regarding the Nevada test site, I referenced this as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. I am very familiar with the important work previously done at this site. For example, I believe the United States has conducted 100…

Is it true that under Senate bill 104 the interim storage facility will be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency and that they will establish the radiation standards at the interim storage…

Also, as I read S. 104, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997, I see it will not interrupt the scientific assessment regarding the suitability of Yucca Mountain to serve as a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel. Indeed, is it true…

Is it also true that ratepayers and utilities across the country have paid approximately $13 billion to the Federal Government to dispose of this waste?

And if utilities in these States are forced to shut down nuclear powerplants because there is no place to put the additional spent nuclear fuel, is it true that these States will have to look to alternative sources of energy which has been…

So just to reiterate, if it is determined that Yucca Mountain is not to be the permanent repository, then this legislation will not designate Yucca Mountain for the temporary repository, and, therefore, the transportation of the nuclear…

If it is determined that Yucca Mountain cannot be the permanent repository, then your legislation states that Yucca Mountain will not be the temporary repository?

Again, if Yucca Mountain is determined to be the permanent repository, this material will go to Yucca Mountain.

I would like to, if I may, utilize this opportunity for a few moments to discuss this whole issue of S. 104, the ramifications and some of the particulars of S. 104, and in doing so, I would like to direct a few questions, if I may, to the…

may I commend my colleague from Wyoming, Senator Thomas, for giving an excellent view as to the bill that we are submitting to Congress today, the Surface Transportation Authorization and Streamlining Act, or STARS 2000. I appreciate the…

I rise today to express my complete and unreserved support for Senate Joint Resolution 1, the balanced budget constitutional amendment. Bringing the budget into balance should be one of the Nation's highest priorities, and this designation…

I rise in support of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997 introduced today by my good friends Senator Craig and Senator Murkowski, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee. This important bill will make substantial…