J. Exon

I have not seen the information that the Senator from North Dakota has. I guess I am specifically asking whether or not there were other organizations who hired attorneys or had attorneys there representing those who brought the action.

If we want to look at the productivity of America, I think we ought to put that in terms that people can understand: not productivity, but job growth. The percentage of change on an annual basis during the Reagan/Bush years--and I think it…

If I might add a comment. It seems to me that if there is that much money out there to get this job done, we might seize on that as a means of balancing the Federal budget in 2 years. I thank my friend from North Dakota.

With that fee schedule that you just outlined right from the Surface Transportation Board paper, how many complaints do you think small businessmen, small elevators, would file out of North Dakota?

I recommend that all Senators vote in favor of the amendment. I would simply point out that the amendment does nothing more than what the States can already do. I will vote for this amendment, and the one that follows. I will strongly…

While the Senator from Virginia and I have not always agreed on all subjects, we have agreed on more than we have disagreed on. I could not help but ask for a moment, if I might, to congratulate the Senator from Virginia for his very…

The basic situation that confronts us is that the Kyl amendment, regardless of how well-intentioned, could not possibly be offered at a worse time, as it would adversely affect the nuclear test ban treaty that, right now, is being…

To the discussion of how we can justify this increase that is not requested by the Pentagon.

I happen to have the feeling that the comptroller at the Pentagon is a very honest, straightforward individual.

I will simply point out that the Exon amendment still allows for a $9 billion increase over what the President and the Pentagon has recommended. I would think, regardless of the technical details, that most realize and recognize that such…

I want to emphasize that. But I still say that we are going way too far. I think that is such a reasonable amendment that I cannot imagine it not being endorsed and accepted by the Senate as a whole. In closing, I urge my colleagues to…

I intend to make some remarks at this time in strong opposition to the Kyl amendment, and then would plead to the managers of the bill--since the Kyl amendment nor nothing like it was included in the authorization bill that came out of the…

We have been bamboozled by the statements that an increase is a decrease only in the Nation's Capital. What we are talking about here are not increases in education funding, net, or increases in Medicare funding, net. What we are talking…

Yes, this is my last budget resolution forever. Sometimes I wonder if the chairman of the committee might like to say the same without giving up the leadership of the organization. But it has been a pleasure for 18 years to work with Pete…

Yes, I do believe that the Senator from Montana is correct in making that assumption. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a limited amount of mandatory programs under its jurisdiction to target for savings as part of a…

Yes, I do find that strange. The committee report for last year's budget resolution cited ANWR as the major mandatory savings assumption for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. indeed, it's inclusion in the final reconciliation…

The Senator from Montana is correct. in fact, this billion dollars of savings amounts to almost 75 percent of the required savings the Energy and Natural Resources must produce in order to comply with the Republican budget resolution.

The Democrat leader would have properly talked to me. He did not. I will talk to him about that.

I simply point out that this amendment will cost over $33 billion and does not say how we will pay for it. Another way of saying that is that this is a political amendment to make a political statement without saying how we are going to…

What the amendment does, simply said, is we can do nothing in these considerations that will further weaken or hurt the trust fund. That is basically what it does. The amendment of the Senator from Texas hurts the solvency of the fund…

I noted with interest the comment the Senator from Texas made. We just debated it a day or so ago. The provisions of the 1993 act that have been roundly criticized and are again being criticized now, raised taxes on only the top 13…

The same thing was said by the Office of Management and Budget director under President Reagan. His name was David Stockman, and he admitted publicly--and I believe wrote in a book--that it was a sham all the way through. In fact, he used…

The Senator and I have appealed over and over again to people to come to the floor or at least call us and tell us they are not going to offer the amendments. We have heard nothing from our side of the aisle on that. If the Senator has…

Time and time again, we are proving the point that the theory behind the ruling of the Chair, as we understand it, which is totally faulty, has been destroyed --that theory has been destroyed completely--by the fact that we have proven…