Joseph T. Burns

I think my friend from Nevada understands the problems small business is going through right now and the margin they have to worry about. This gives them a great deal of flexibility. But it also allows Congress to take a look to see how…

I helped craft this legislation, and if there is one thing that we hear going down the road every day from the people who live in my State of Montana it is the way we write our rules and regulations here in Washington. This regulatory…

We will hope for better times in the cattle business. The Senator from Nebraska knows that we have been through these times before, and we will go through this one. I will be honest with you. I have a hard time, I say to the Senator from…

I do not know where he wants to spend the $2 billion. He was not specific about that, I ask?

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…

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

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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…