J. Exon

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.

It might be due to the fact that a clear majority of the American people do not support opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas exploration. It appears to me that the Republicans are trying to find a clever way to…

I wanted to call the attention of the Senate to a very interesting letter I just received from Charlie Brogan, president of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association, from Lexington, NE. He writes and says: I thought about you this week when…

as we conclude debate, I cannot help but be struck by the futility of this Republican budget. It is a tragic repeat of last year's Republican budget fiasco. It is a fool's errand twice over. A year ago, many of us stood on the Senate floor…

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, 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…

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…

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 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…

How interesting it is that the debate has shifted from the very legitimate discussion that we were having here with regard to the faulty ruling of the Chair to a charge that Democrats are trying to block consideration of income tax…

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…

Does the consumer price index have an upward bias? The author believes that, while substitution and formula biases exist, together they might amount to 0.3 to 0.5 percentage points. Other alleged causes of bias are not considered…

Before the Senator from North Dakota leaves, may I ask a question of the Senator from North Dakota? We heard a great deal and we have had a lot of criticism from that side of the aisle on the President's budget with the idea that it has a…

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…

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…

I want to join in the appeal. I say to my friend, the chairman of the committee, that I have made two appeals earlier to date. I renew it again, and invite all to take advantage-- both Democrats and Republicans--to come down and offer your…

If we prohibit them, what would be the result? Frankly, I do not think very much, because Senators would, as a substitute, offer small changes in dollars in a regular amendment with some very long statements of the purpose. There is no…

I am not saying this is a bad idea per se. I say two things. First, I do not believe that we should make such a dramatic change without hearings or discussions. I have said before, there are some problems with sense-of-the-Senate…

I agree with Chairman Domenici that possibly out of these discussions tonight and the general tenor of the responses on each side lead me to also agree that we can have a breakthrough. I would simply say that I happen to feel that the…

I simply say that I am opposed to the amendment offered by the Senator from Missouri for the reasons that I stated previously. We still do not know the details of where the offsets would come from to make up for the big, huge tax decrease…

the Harkin amendment reveals the truth about the Republican strategy, it seems to me, better than anything else. If this amendment is rejected, it will prove that they are not serious about enacting bipartisan welfare reform this year…

more than a third of the savings from a CPI adjustment suggested here would come from families with annual incomes under $30,000 per year. Ratchet it up just a little bit and 56 percent of the burden falls on families with incomes under…

I want to explain exactly what a sense-of-the-Senate resolution is, so that everyone outside the Senate knows what it is? A sense of the Senate merely means that the Senate is saying, without having any effect whatsoever of law, that this…

I cannot support a broad CPI adjustment that does nothing to protect the very neediest. I also point my colleagues to the fact that those areas where a firm scientific consensus exists about CPI bias have already been incorporated into the…