I rise today to salute my colleague from Montana, Congressman Pat Williams. Pat surprised all of us last month when he announced he would not seek his 10th term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Pat says he wants to get back to Montana…

I agree. Moreover, FCC involvement in the emerging digital market could have the effect of freezing or chilling the development of that market. If private industry groups are able to develop sufficient standards on their own, there is no…

I agree. However, when those services are no longer rate regulated such subsidy cannot be sustained and the prohibition on bundling is no longer necessary. The bill's prohibition on bundling and subsidization no longer applies when cable…

The point is that the land was granted and then there was a property right. The point is there was a property right--they could buy and sell that land from that point on without Government intrusion.

Would you also relate what you are talking about to the Homestead Act? Were the farms and lands granted to individual ownership by an act of the Homestead Act?

I want to say that the land originally that was purchased by this Government through the Louisiana Purchase was paid for by the taxpayers of this country, taken from the Treasury. And then it was given, 160 acres to anybody that wanted it…

I would get very upset. We have already filed an action, as far as IBP is concerned, on meat packing.

Would you make the same comparison that spectrum--even though granted by this Government--has no value unless investment is made in equipment to make it valuable in the Government, I suggest to my friend in Nebraska, the Government did not…

This Senator is not going to get into the business of forecasting what might happen. I am saying this is probably the biggest jobs bill we will pass. I just wanted to throw that in there. Do we repeal any of those antitrust acts that are…

I appreciate that. The only reason I ask the question is I think we should be very sure of our grounds here. Who actually owns that spectrum? Is it still in the hands of the original winner in the lottery? Or is it owned by the FCC? I…

Historically, the National Defense Stockpile was created to provide a supply of strategic materials not available from domestic production or not available in sufficient quantities from domestic production to meet critical military needs…

And I understand that if the disposal of those materials is authorized by the Congress, the actual sales of the materials would be preceded by a recommendation by the Federal Market Impact Committee regarding the adverse domestic and…

Public interest is kind of like art or beauty: It is in the eye of the beholder. When we talk about putting up different barriers, we are really saying that it is going to be a select few who will decide who gets in the business and who…

we have all been receiving phone calls and getting letters about the proposed budget that is being recommended now or being talked about and marked up in the respective committees in the Senate and House of Representatives. We have had…

But one has to look at what it is all about, because in 1994 we appropriated $74 million for this program, and then in 1995 we appropriated another $400 million for the testing and related costs to move this program forward. Now, that move…

I am going to oppose and ask that this amendment be tabled. I think what we have here when we start looking at the BRAC, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, we are all at once starting to send wrong messages before the process is…

as I have heard my friend from Florida and the Senator from California make their arguments on this balanced budget amendment, if there is ever an argument that they have made that has been powerful it is this one, but it is an argument…

We have to get away from these scare tactics that everything is going to be cut. I have had people come into my office and say, ``We are going to lose our programs. Everything is going to be out because you will not tell us how you are…

I want to bring up a situation that caught my eye. Day before yesterday I received a copy of an Associated Press article that exposed a previously unreleased Forest Service document, now being referred to as ``Phase I of The Western Forest…

I submit to my friend from Michigan that we have laws now that have created a lot of problems and still have sunsets, but yet the law and the programs created under the law still continue. A case in point is we have not reauthorized the…

I have often said, before we can attain success in what we are trying to do in bringing down the size of Government, in trying to make it more efficient, there are probably three areas of reform: Regulatory reform, budget reform, and…