Don Nickles

of all the freedoms we enjoy in this country, the ability to own, care for, and develop private property is perhaps the most crucial to our free enterprise economy. In fact, our economy would cease to function without the incentives…

I have some letters from many of these organizations, but when you think about it, we have legislation that is pending, like the National Rural Water Association, like the Safe Drinking Water Act, which again have very noble and good…

At the end of the subtitle, add the following: SEC. . ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT IMPACT ACT. (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Economic and Employment Impact Act''. (b) Findings and Purposes.-- (1) Findings.--The Congress…

If you go in and talk to a business person and if they find out some of the legislation that is running through Congress, they say, ``Wait a minute, what are you guys doing?'' There is legislation--I mentioned to my friend from South…

Mr. President, this amendment is germane and is about competitiveness. I think when we talk about competitiveness, we must not miss the point and the fact that the Government can do a great deal of harm through overzealous regulation. One…

the present law under the Budget Act, Section 403 says that economic impact statement should be compiled or made before legislation that affects State and local Governments. I would readily concur with my colleague that has not necessarily…

I will oppose this nomination of William Gould as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. I do not do that with a great deal of joy. I do not like opposing nominations and I have really opposed very few in my career in the Senate…

some people will say that $113 billion reduction was a direct result of the deficit reduction package that passed last year. My colleague from North Dakota said he was proud to have voted in favor of that package. I was proud to have voted…

first, I wish to congratulate my colleague and friend, Senator Dorgan from North Dakota, for his statement. Especially his statement in which he said he was going to vote for the Reid amendment and that, if it should not pass, he intends…

I cannot help but think, when I listen to the Senator from Montana and he talks about changing the baseline, that he is really saying the Federal Government has a baseline that has built-in escalating spending. That does not happen in the…

The Senator from Wyoming is exactly correct. That is one of the reasons I felt it was important to show that CBO says here is where the deficit reduction figures are coming from, and that there are no spending cuts in the first 3 years of…

I had earlier told my friend and colleague from Illinois that when we were negotiating caps what the level would be. The figure that I had in my original amendment was CBO projections, which was just $300 million adjusted for inflation…