Jasper Packard: “I appreciate the request of the gentleman. I will certainly work in conference to adequately fund the Spallation Neutron…”

Should the committee receive a revised 302(b) allocation which increases our funding level, then our effort will be to consider increasing funding for the ARC to at least the fiscal year 2000 funding level.

I will do all I can to get the Navy to do a better job of communicating and working with us, but the fact is napalm under the plan is safer to ship than gasoline, and we ship gasoline on the streets of our communities all across America…

The Ryan amendment would take $74 million from the National Ignition Facility and terminate the project; that is premature. We are aware that the project has not run smoothly, and that it has had its problems both management and fiscally…

I reluctantly resist and oppose the amendment of my dear friend and colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Radanovich). But I am convinced that, if we allow the section 907 to continue, that it will prevent us from working toward a…