Kay Bailey Hutchison

I submitted an amendment to the amendment to make sure that that would not happen. We allow emergency listings if there really is a danger of losing any animal or any species that is under the old act. Let us look at what the Reid…

I rise to speak on a matter which could profoundly affect the U.S. defense industrial base. It is my understanding that the Committee on Appropriations recommends the appropriation of an additional $70 million in fiscal year 1996 funds for…

I think that we have clearly established the intent of the Senate. These aircraft are to be provided to Jordan, in support of Jordan's participation in the Middle East peace process. Furthermore, to support U.S. exports and to help…

last year, Congress put a hold on listing of endangered species and the designation of critical habitat that went along with that to give us time to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act. We called a timeout on new listings so we could…

Mr. President, the premeditated, cold-blooded murder of four American citizens by Cuban war planes last Saturday is an outrage, an outrage against the United States of America, against international law, and against every concept of human…

this month marked the sesquicentennial of the end of the Republic of Texas. But I rise this morning to celebrate the beginning of our Republic, not its end. One hundred sixty years ago Saturday, March 2, a band of Texans gathered in…

I want to talk about the very important issue that I think all Americans are looking at right now, and that is the balanced budget and what is going to happen here and what will be the result after we finish the negotiations. The great…

Along that same line, if the Senator would yield, I think it is also important that we link Russian behavior to any expansions of NATO and how those will come about so that there will be an incentive on the part of Russia to make sure that…

One other point that I think is important. The Senator from Georgia was very instrumental in negotiating the language that we put in our authorization bill regarding the missile defense capabilities that the United States would have and…

Senator Nunn and I and other Democrats and Republicans have been talking about NATO expansion. We are very concerned that the debate needs to take place, that Americans need to understand what is important, what the questions should be…

I should like to say I really appreciate, of course, his very articulate view of this issue. He has given speeches on this subject. As I said earlier, he and I have traveled with the Armed Services Committee to Russia. We have met with…

That is correct. That could be a result. That is exactly correct. You see, there is another point here. When we are talking about the underlying bill, we are talking about redistributing $887 million over a 5-year period. So we are holding…

I want to talk about the underlying formula, the Dole-Hutchison formula that is in this bill. The key to our formula is balance. When we looked at the monumental problem of welfare reform, the main goal we had was to keep the reform in the…

The third thing that is wrong with the Feinstein amendment is that it directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine poverty estimates by means of sampling, estimation, or any other method that the Secretary determines…

if the court or agency, as appropriate, finds that the defendant in good faith determined based on the language of the rule or engaged in the conduct alleged to violate the rule in reliance upon a written statement issued by the…

The Senator from Delaware knows it is well settled in our law that there is a good-faith test. If it is not a willful violation, I would hope we would protect people who in good faith, in a fact determination, would be able to say I did…

I do not think it is a very good idea to write a bill on the floor. The Senator has the evening to look at it. We can go to your desk, and if there is something we can modify that would allow the Senator to support this amendment, that I…

if I could interrupt my good friend from Oklahoma, I absolutely agree with him. I think we need to sit down and work together if we can. But, with all due respect, the point that he is making is not even necessary, under this. We are…

I say probably that situation is covered very well in our amendment, because it says that the agency shall not be able to impose the civil or criminal penalty after disclosure of material facts at the time and appropriate review. I think…

I would say any court or any agency probably is going to be able to determine pretty carefully the difference between high ground and a swamp.

Last, I want to thank the Senator from Utah. I want to say I have never seen a more patient manager of a bill than the Senator from Utah. This has been a very tough amendment. We have spent most of the day on it. He has been very…

It is a matter of fairness, notice, retroactive interpretation, change, basic due process and basic fairness.

I, like my colleague from Georgia, appreciate what the Senator from Louisiana has done in this bill. He has worked to try to make it a good bill. But I am concerned if we raise the threshold that there might be people in that $50 to $100…

I wanted to answer one point of the Senator from Louisiana on his amendment, and that is the point that the small entities would be covered under the reg-flex amendment that we adopted yesterday. In fact, the reg-flex amendment covers…

I am very glad to follow the Senator from Tennessee. I think he made some very good points, and I think it is important that the people of America see some of the things that are happening in this country that we have to fix. The buck…