T. Gorton: “I have at least three reasons to urge adoption of the amendment of the Senator from Maine. The first, of course, is the…”

“I have at least three reasons to urge adoption of the amendment of the Senator from Maine. The first, of course, is the eloquence that she has evidenced in presenting it and her persistence in pursuing this particular course of action. Second is that this is directly analogous to the first amendment we adopted today by the two Senators from Minnesota. It is a decision, effectively, that we have already made that this money should be appropriated on an emergency basis. It is included in another bill that is slower to pass. Unfortunately, it was not included in the military construction bill, which did have a number of emergency expenditures in it. The third comes even closer to home for this Senator because, as the Senator from Maine knows, Washington and Oregon, and for that matter, California, do have listed salmon species. I may say to the Senator from Maine, we got an advance appropriation and it didn't prevent the listings from taking place, by any stretch of the imagination. But I think it did help my State and the other two States to prepare for what is going to be a long campaign toward their recovery.”