I think it may have been overlooked, but the distinguished chairman of the committee and the distinguished ranking member of the committee deserve a great deal of credit for the fact that this legislation has been developed and passed. It…

I would agree. However, the delay in the implementation of these regulations is to allow the numerous concerns that have been raised with these regulations to be resolved, and to provide additional time for the EPA to distribute the…

S. 1913 represents a major compromise between the Environmental Protection Agency, farm worker interests, production agriculture, and State regulators in the implementation of EPA's farm worker protection standard. The bill will delay the…

I want to express my opposition because of the inconsistency and unfairness that this kind of action leads to for groups petitioning for recognition by the Federal Government as a legally established entity under current law, entitled to…

I oppose S. 282, which would grant Federal recognition to the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama. The matter of granting legislative recognition to nonrecognized groups of Indian people is clearly a controversial issue. In my opinion…

I will read the last paragraph again to show you that we have not come very far since that first exchange of correspondence that I had with EPA back in September of last year. Here is the last paragraph: We fully intend to go forward with…

The date in the amendment is October 23, 1995. That was the original provision of the amendment. Just for the Senator's information, we were using the Kassebaum amendment as a model for trying to craft a compromise that could be a fair…

I think there may be some misinformation about that matter. The understanding was that there would be a moratorium agreed to by the Senate that would last until January 1, 1995, and the Senate would contemporaneously pass a freestanding…

if we were starting over again, and the Senate had not voted by such an overwhelming margin against the motion to table this amendment, I would be willing to discuss what we could do on this bill. But without some assurance that the action…

What we want is a delay that sticks and that we know we are going to have, not just one that is attached as an amendment to this bill that may not be accepted by the House. It may be changed in conference and modified even further. What we…

I hope it is obvious to Senators by now that we are at a point where there have been a lot of meetings. These meetings have been at the highest levels in the administration, involving Cabinet level officials who are trying to resolve some…

As I mentioned, the States are charged under the regulations with enforcing these new regulations. The people at the local level in the State departments of agriculture will be charged with the day-to-day responsibilities for implementing…

I do not want to delay the Senate too long, but I do want to put in perspective what the problem is and why we are here in March 1994 asking to suspend the effective date of these enforcement regulations. We have come a long way since we…

Today, I am introducing legislation to provide disaster assistance to farmers who have suffered losses from the recent ice storm in the South. Earlier this month, many counties in Mississippi suffered severe damage due to a winter storm of…

the sixth goal established by the Nation's Governors and President George Bush in an historic meeting at the national education Summit in 1989 provided that: By the year 2000, every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and…

First of all, I want to thank the managers of the bill for including some language to clarify the intent of this legislation to provide voluntary standards, guidelines, and challenges before our Nation's schools to elevate the level of…