Gerald Ford: “Not a single young American is fighting or dying on foreign soil today, and we are proud of it.”

I join my colleague in introducing this legislation today to ensure one thing, Mr. President--that the American public continues to have access to the Government information. As my friend has said, it pays to produce. It is the people's…

Then you have to get the money from somewhere. As I read the amendment, I say to my friend, that would take 46 percent of the money raised by the tobacco bill. So the States get 40 percent and you get 46 percent. That is 86 percent of all…

I was the sole person who had to make that decision. But, when you look back at the alternatives that I had, it was the right decision. And I have no question that it was the right thing to do then. And I'm more certain today.

I am not going to pursue this issue. Again, I spent too many hundreds of hours working with the Senator from Kentucky for us to end up in some disagreement over an issue such as this before completion of the bill that is called the Wendell…