Larry Pressler

Vouchers may be appropriate in some areas. However, in states like South Dakota, the problem is...financing build-out to sparsely populated areas.

I want to join the tribute to Al Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming. I came here with him and there is almost nobody I admire more than Al Simpson. I enjoyed that speech very much. I wish I could be in your class at Harvard. I think that…

In response to the concerns raised by the senior Senator from Pennsylvania, I would note that I made my point in our recent correspondence that it is important to be openminded and innovative in thinking about airport funding at a time of…

The amendment I have offered along with my friend and colleague from New York, Senator D'Amato, is very simple. I offer it in response to recent reports that China has shipped ballistic missile technology to Syria. This was first reported…

Finally, I would like to ask the chairman if he would work with me to secure future funding for a feasibility study to be done for a lamb processing facility in Belle Fourche, SD.

Is it also correct to say that the U.S. Department of Agriculture could utilize this type of grant to establish value-added processing plants in the United States, like the one planned for in Belle Fourche, SD?

Let me conclude by saying the U.S./German open skies agreement is unquestionably our most important liberalized air service agreement to date. I again praise the bold and steadfast leadership of Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena…

I again commend my friend from Virginia for his great leadership. I think he found, in getting cosponsors for his original bill, there is bipartisan support for this. And I see our friend, Senator Dick Bryan, who has done such an…

Let me conclude by saying I hope France will recognize its air service policy with the United States is an economic failure that is exacting a very high cost in terms of lost jobs and other commercial opportunities. To remedy this…

This amendment reinforces Federal policy to protect the interests of sportsmen who hunt and fish and use our public rangelands for sport. My amendment would preserve the rights of hunters, fishermen and recreationalists to use Federal…

My amendment is designed to address a concern expressed by sportsmen in South Dakota. South Dakota is probably the best hunting and fishing State in the Nation. I know there may be others who may disagree, but I will gladly promote South…

I wanted to bring to my colleagues' attention the concerns of several prominent South Dakotans regarding the Superfund Program. Like many of my colleagues, during the August recess, I spend considerable time back in South Dakota talking to…

I urge the chairman and the appointed conferees to consider going to the authorized funding level for MLRS launchers, as S. 1087 proceeds to conference. I believe doing so would ensure the successful reconditioning and fielding of 29 MLRS…

But I am not accusing the Senator of responding to corporate America. I think we are asking, in the public interest.

There is a large part of corporate America for the Justice Department review which the Senator is supporting.

I want to say how hard that staff and Senators involved worked through the weekends. A lot of Members have not had a day off since Christmas. I find the suggestion that this bill is a result of corporate interests in the Senate of these…

I find it unreasonable for the suggestion that this is a bill of corporate interests. I believe the Senators involved have acted in the public interest.

But under the Clayton and Sherman Acts, as my distinguished friend pointed out, the language in the bill, they already have antitrust power. We are setting up a permanent administrative bureaucracy in the Department of Justice that is…

From this Senator's point of view, the public interest is very much at heart throughout these considerations. I think all the Senators who worked on this bill have had the public interest. I do not accept that conclusion about the Senate…

If my friend will yield, there is no other area of American economy--and it is true since Judge Greene's order, and he has 200 staff attorneys over there, basically. But there is no need to continue having that just for one sector of our…

Under the consent decree that broke up AT&T, DOJ is not the decisionmaker; it was the court, Judge Greene. Now we are making DOJ the decisionmaker under the Dorgan proposed amendment.

I think in American society we refer respectfully to our President. I have heard various Presidents referred to by their first name on the Senate floor. I do not want to start digging it out. We have a friendly society. We refer to our…

May I just say a word about Sheila Burke and Kelly Johnston? I would like to join in praise. Sheila Burke has been absolutely amazing. She is somebody we can go to and get something done right away. She will always have the answer. I join…

We accept the amendment of the Senator from North Dakota on this side of the aisle. I want to commend him for his work on this subject. He is a friend of mine, and an outstanding leader in this area. Let me say that this subject of serving…