I am proud to be listed as a cosponsor of the California desert bill now before us, and commend Senator Feinstein and the chairman of the Energy Committee, Senator Johnston, for their efforts to bring this measure to the floor. I have long…

the world was shaken and shocked in the past 24 hours to hear first of the shooting, and then of the death, of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Mexican Presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Although little is known of…

I applaud my colleague from Kansas for her tenacity, perseverance, and great patience in bringing once again the issue of general aviation liability reform before this body. By granting an 18-year statute of repose, the Kassebaum…

Well, I am rather sensitive on this subject, because during the debate over the balanced budget amendment, the supporters of the amendment were sharply criticized for offering what was a placebo instead of the hard medicine needed to…

That is the latest figure that they have. Now, what does that mean, when we run a budget deficit like that? By the way, the deficit in the following year is in the billions, likewise. I am sure for 1995, when we are going to embark on this…

As I understand the bill--and I am open to correction on this--what it does is it provides that over the course of 2 years, that is fiscal year 1995, which starts on October 1, and fiscal year 1996, that the bill authorizes some $2.8…

I think we have a lot of requirements in the United States Government. We are spending more than we take in; that when we have a chance to hold the line, we ought to hold the line. And people can label lovely things with terms like…

I appreciate that. Perhaps while the Senator is up he can give me the truth in where I erred in the figures I have here. Am I in error in saying that the total appropriation for these activities were $526 million in the current fiscal…

Well, yes. I notice that there is the creation of some new programs. For example, in looking at this, first of all, we start off with an SBA Pilot Program. No money in the current year, no money requested in the budget by the…

I must say, I find this rather amusing, because just some 10 days ago on the floor of the Senate, we were debating the question of a constitutional amendment. I heard some stirring oratory on the other side of the aisle that, ``What this…

Now, what this bill does, it authorizes not what the President requested--by the way, the last I heard it was a Democratic President--but it is not $964 million that is requested, but under this bill the authorization is $1.370 billion; am…

I know that there is a difference between authorization and appropriation. But clearly, the committee has not authorized this without hoping that it will be appropriated, that can be only my conclusion. My second question is: is there a…