Joseph T. Burns

Yes, these recent developments continue to highlight the desperate need for a change in U.S. encryption policy. Last week the Administration announced it would make exceptions in encryption export policy allowing banks and certain…

Industry's plan to allow law enforcement access to the plaintext of some encrypted communications demonstrates that market solutions can truly address many areas of law enforcement's concerns with encryption. At the same time, we should…

The amendment allows the head of the stockyards division to look into a way to set up mandatory price reporting. Right now, we only have one segment of the chain in the cattle market that is doing any price discovery at all; that is at the…

We have to understand that in this fiscal year we are about $700 million under what we allocated and appropriated for military construction a year ago. Compared to 2 years ago, this expenditure is down $2 billion. And I think this…

I understand that the Western Area Power Administration and The Bureau of Reclamation are considering raising rates for the power necessary to operate irrigation systems in the Eastern Division of the Pick-Sloane Missouri Basin Project…

This is especially true considering the recent drought and low wheat prices that we have been experiencing throughout the region. The farmers in this region simply cannot afford the burden that this rate increase will place on them.

As my colleagues recognize, technically advanced and unobtrusive encryption is fundamental to ensuring the kind of privacy Americans will need and desire in the years to come. Congress must choose a future where individuals and companies…

The basic facts remain the same. People need strong, unescrowed encryption to protect themselves online in the information age. Law enforcement has legitimate concerns about the spread of this technology, and we must work to provide them…

In the computer business these days, they talk about ``Internet time.'' In the Internet industry, where product life cycles can be as low as 6 months, the world changes rapidly. Yet we have been debating this issue for over five years now…

I believe the NSF and all agencies participating in the SBIR program should coordinate with the SBA in determining their extramural research budgets. This is what the GAO recommend.

I agree that it is alarming whenever we see the attrition, especially an accelerated attrition and losing people who are essential to make our fighting forces really effective--in other words those pilots, those specialized people, who are…

I am also supportive of this loan for the construction of a pipeline to transport the excess CO2 from the Great Plains Gasification plant to existing oil fields to enhance tertiary oil recovery. Some portions of these fields lie within the…

We take note of the Senator from Arizona. I just made a comment here that the complete emphasis on military construction has probably doubled toward the quality of life, just since I have been on this committee. We can make those moves as…

Understanding the demands on the chairman, I would merely like to encourage him to address this situation in conference. If a solution can not be reached in this bill, I would encourage the chairman to give careful consideration to and to…

So this act does not, in any way, contemplate funding this program by imposing new taxes, user fees, or other revenue raising devices that would adversely affect the maritime industry customers like the good farmers in Montana.

I join my colleagues in calling for hearings on this important issue. This issue deserves our immediate attention and I look forward to working with the chairman in developing a record on this issue. The ``Age 60 Rule''

If you had some preference, you would rather lease private lands for even more than that, Senator, because we know the services that go with it. The cattle will be ridden and we will get gain on the cattle. That is not guaranteed. Nothing…

I think if it becomes unprofitable for them, it would be unprofitable for a small man, too. I do not think that will open up the availability of more of those permits to a smaller rancher.

I sure do not want to lose them as a viable corporation. They do a lot of business in my State. They buy my barley. They are not just a one-faceted company. They pay a lot of personal property taxes in my county, the county government. I…

I wonder some days, I wonder about the wisdom of that on occasion. Every time we try to single out somebody to pay higher fees or put them under a different set of laws, then somebody else who is running under the same…

I do not think you can single out people and put them in a class over here and have another class over here. I do not think I like that very much.

I received a letter from the U.S. Trade Representative and the Administrator of EPA regarding the foreign refiner baseline issue dated July 25, 1996. The letter provides additional comments regarding enforcement and states, ``EPA will not…

I believe this is a good compromise to expedite the bill yet send a strong message about clean air and a level playing field for our domestic refiners.

I understand the Senator's interest in this matter and I share his admiration for Governor O'Callaghan. What he suggests is entirely appropriate and fitting. I would point out, to my ranking member, that there is no precedent in a military…

So this morning, Mr. President, I ask that we take a long look at the total picture of families and what makes them tick. How do we secure their wages? How do we give them some permanence, and how do we contribute to a better life for…