Olympia Snowe

I want to welcome you, Dr. Hogarth, and the rest of the witnesses to this critical hearing.

I hope the government will commit to filing an appeal on behalf of the industry, because this ruling represents devastating consequences for the groundfish industry in New England.

I think this hearing is most appropriate and fortuitously comes at a critical juncture, particularly in regards to the New England groundfish crisis.

We seem to be driven by litigation and judicial-based remedies and decisions. This is really a failure of the system at all levels.

Something has gone terribly wrong in our fisheries management and I hope today that we will be able to provide some recommendations that will visibly improve fisheries management.

As Senator Collins expressed, your efforts on behalf of our State are deeply appreciated. We are committed to improving the highway system in Aroostook County and therefore welcome your support for this project. Interstate 95's current…

The money that was provided last year has been utilized to engage a wide range of stakeholders, including local community groups as well as aquaculture, agriculture, and forestry companies in cooperative restoration efforts. They have…

It is important to emphasize in this amendment as we have drafted it includes a provision that starts out with automatic designation: That a health insurance issuer shall be deemed to be a designated decisionmaker for purposes of…

The Senate version reinforces the President's budget blueprint for advance appropriations as a full funding mechanism that can be used by various departments, such as the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, and the…

I thank you for your close scrutiny of the merits of this project and your support for what is currently the largest single land conservation project in the world. I would like to point out that, for any appropriation to work under the…

The second Forest Legacy project, Mr. Chairman, known as Mt. Blue/Tumbledown Mountain, is a two-phase project totaling approximately 33,400 acres and will protect some of Maine's most scenic areas--including Tumbledown Mountain, Jackson…

Maine and the nation have an opportunity to accomplish an enormously meaningful level of forest protection in Maine's 10 million acre Northern Forest if significant funding for Forest Service accounts is allocated for Maine projects in…

As always I am impressed by the chairman's knowledge and his grasp of the issues. We have worked closely over the past few weeks to determine how the Navy and industry stand in regard to their progress with this new ship class, and I…

I draw the attention of the distinguished Chairman of the Appropriations Committee to a funding provision of the FY 2000 Defense Authorization Bill that passed after the Appropriations Committee had completed its military budget mark-up…

I will do every thing I can to ensure that this provision is in any final Coast Guard legislation.

The Leahy-Abraham amendment makes a clear distinction between the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is not a Great Lake. There are only five Great Lakes--Michigan, Superior, Huron, Ontario, and Erie. The Leahy-Abraham…

Opponents of reforms assert that they would violate freedom of speech. But what they are really protecting is the freedom to spend unlimited dollars to corrupt our democratic process.

The Snowe-Jeffords amendment is fully consistent with the view that the Furgatch decision and the FEC regulation may be a constitutional approach for detecting ads that pretend to discuss issues, but are really attacks on candidates. If…

Stopping issue ad abuse is critical to meaningful campaign finance reform. But distinguishing candidate ads from issue ads based on ad content is the Supreme Court's approach in Buckley versus Valeo; it is an approach that the courts are…

That is correct--our amendment is not intended to convey any criticism of the FEC. The Buckley magic words test is a very narrow one, and has proven completely ineffective in stopping phony issue ads that attack candidates. My amendment…

My concern--and I think shared by others, such as Senator Jeffords, who is a lead sponsor of this amendment as well--we are concerned about the political advertising that is in these campaigns, hundreds of millions of dollars, where there…

Well, obviously, we are talking about political advertising that is sponsored by organizations. That is what we are identifying here because that is obviously playing the primary role.

I think we are taking the approach in this amendment to draw it as narrowly as possible so that we do not affect the first amendment rights. So, we are taking the most prudent, most cautious approach in designing this amendment.

Yes, the Senator is correct on that point. The Secretarial determinations to which you refer are included in S. 39 as an amendment to the Dolphin Consumer Protection Information Act. That act does not specify any alternative standard of…

I urge the conferees for the Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Bill to further consider this subject. Sexual Harassment Accountability