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This amendment provides that nothing in section 134 of the fiscal year 2002 Interior bill shall impact ongoing litigation involving the Department of the Interior and the Sac and Fox Nation. This language has previously been passed by the…
In other words, those who oppose this amendment have not seen fit to come to the floor. That is the dilemma in which we find ourselves.
In addition to the GAO study, I wish to bring your attention to a voluntary effort to address emissions from the aviation sector, known as the ``EPA/FAA Local Air Quality Initiative.'' As part of this voluntary initiative, the…
I am still a little concerned about on what bill this amendment is being offered. I want this to pass, and I would hate to see it passed in the Senate and we get a good warm and fuzzy feeling inside and then we lose it in conference or we…
There are some of us who did not and will not sign the conference report. I will make my statement this evening, but we have not seen the bill and will not see it until the morning. I think it is asking a little bit of those of us who have…
I ask the Senator, we passed the airport security law in this body and we changed the authority--moving the authority from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Justice. That was my amendment. I contended at that time that…
The events of September 11 changed a lot of things--where we place emphasis and how we do business in this town. We are changing who is directly responsible and directly accountable for airport security. When I first looked at the…
How loaded was that? I think there are still disagreements among leadership. I could not do that personally. If it were in my power--which it is not--I am a soldier around here and everybody in the world is smarter than I am--I am ready to…
I concur with Chairman Byrd and can assure the Senator from Virginia that the restoration of the Arlington House will receive our attention during the conference with the House of Representatives. We will make every effort to address the…
If that resource is there and it can be done in an environmentally sensitive way, why is that bad or wrong?
As you know, I had a little round with the surgeon during our Easter break. I got a get-well card from a good friend who lives in Montana, something that would come out of sort of cowboy lore or out of a cowboy camp. I knew this man's…
I understand that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, intends to request that the Department of Commerce transfer the Internet's authoritative root server to ICANN's control. The authoritative root server is the…
I enjoyed the speech of my good friend from Illinois. But I also want to footnote it by saying it is pretty tough to give tax cuts to folks who don't pay taxes. So it is a little on the rough side to do that.
This is another attempt to do away with the timber program and the salvage program, and all those associated with them. If you want to do something about fires, or the safety of the forests, or the health of the forests, what you do is…
I am proud of my vote. Make no mistake about that because I love this Constitution. We should not be out here arguing about something. We should all be working together, trying to get America working together so we can do something about…
I welcome our law enforcement officers to town. There are quite a few of them. They have a memorial at Judiciary Square here in town. They are acknowledging those young men and women who have fallen in the line of duty.
I have written to President Clinton demanding that he put an immediate stop to this or any similar action. What we are witnessing here is an unprecedented attempt to corrupt the nonpolitical casework system of Senate offices for political…
Those of us who have been granted life and been able to work in it and enjoy the full fruits of it sometimes lose sight of just exactly where we come from. So this is a matter of conscience, the deep American conscience, especially when…
I'd like to clarify the issue of funding for a new sewer line connecting Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to the City of Helena. The Senate Appropriations Committee Report directs the VA to work with interested parties on a cost-sharing…
The review found that not enough resources are being devoted to maintaining the safety of the program. Because of increasing demand for their aerial services, the program directs most of their resources into program delivery. This, coupled…
That's absolutely correct. As you know, Wildlife Services provides a broad range of services across the country and the aerial operations program is a key component of these services. In fact, distribution of rabies vaccine baits by…
That's right. The aerial program helps researchers track radio-collared wolves so we learn about wolf movements, habitat needs and feeding patterns. Without the aerial program it would be much more difficult to tranquilize and relocate…
Yes. Despite a historically solid safety record, a series of aircraft accidents in the past two years including four fatalities of pilots, have prompted Assistant Secretary Mike Dunn to call for a full outside review.
Senator Cochran, I would like to discuss recent problems that have been facing the Wildlife Services aerial program.
Encryption is also an essential part of new ``digital signature'' techniques used to identify parties and authenticate transactions online. These techniques are widely viewed as an essential feature of electronic commerce. The use of…
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