J. Exon: “I will simply say that the Senator from Indiana is, therefore, saying that the Appropriations Committee is antidefense…”

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?

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.

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…

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…