In Walla Walla, WA, there is a general medical and surgical facility for the Veterans' Administration. That facility serves a wide range of veterans over a very considerable area. The people of Walla Walla are proud of the facility. The…

In providing these funds the committee is aware of the need to initiate construction of the Intermodal Center, and that providing these funds would fulfill the Federal commitment to this cost-shared visitor center project.

due to the prominent nature of this debate, perhaps the first thing we ought to do is to put in context how much, in the way of our national forests and our timber, we are talking about in the contracts that go beyond pure salvage. As a…

a brief history. One year ago, right now, 2 years after President Clinton had proposed his very, very modest timber plan for the Pacific Northwest, less than half of what the President had stated was in his plan for a harvest was actually…

as Senator Hatfield knows, Cowlitz County has been digging out, literally and figuratively, from the effects of Mt. St. Helens ever since 1980. These last two floods have exacerbated the movement of sediment in the Toutle, Cowlitz and…

For almost a year, this Senator has suggested that within the frame of reference of the amount of money available to use for the Department of the Interior and related agencies, if the administration wanted to shift priorities, then we…

last weekend 170 employees of the Mayr Bros. sawmill in Hoquim, WA, were notified that they were about to be laid off. One-hundred and seventy individual workers is not a particularly large number in connection with all of the layoffs that…

Well, you do not. I must say, I found particularly striking the analogy of the Senator from Missouri to a 2- or 3-year-old child who simply says, ``More.'' In this case, what we have is an administration that only says, ``More. We want…

Just a few moments ago, the distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Hatfield, appeared on the floor with the extraordinary news that the administration had expressed its unwavering intention to veto the omnibus…

I believe he was specific about it. Perhaps a few hundred million were in the field of the Senator from Missouri. Others were in social and health services. My own responsibility for the Department of Interior and related agencies, where…

reacting to a proposal which I am about to introduce in bill form, a columnist and cartoonist on the Seattle Post Intelligencer wrote, in yesterday's edition of that newspaper: My English friend, Carolyn, having recently arrived in the…

it seems to me in the last 24 to 48 hours, we have taken one or two steps forward in our quest for a truly balanced budget, a balanced budget that will pay great dividends to future generations of America in lower interest rates, better…

In dealing with highly complex and technical legislation, two requirements seem to me to be essential. The first is that those who have an interest in the legislation and have conflicts among themselves over what is most desirable, express…

every Senator is aware that the continuing resolution now before the Senate represents a less than perfect solution to the impasse over the unsigned fiscal year 1996 appropriations bills. As chairman of the Interior Appropriations…

I believe late on a Friday evening, with very few of the public listening or watching, the Congress of the United States is about to accomplish an extraordinary feat. We have passed, or are about to pass automatically, a series of…

the clash between ideas, which is evidenced in this amendment, is a difficult one, because there are valid points to be made on each side of that argument. On the side of the Senator from New Mexico is the obvious proposition that it is an…

I believe that the continuing resolution must continue the current moratorium on listing and critical habitat designations under the ESA. The continuation of this moratorium during the short time of the continuing resolution is even more…

That is a justified objection, Mr. President. But I am convinced that we have an opportunity, if we go along the road that the Senator from New Mexico has set out for us, to retain what is good and what is important in the Legal Services…

I just want to say that the abstractions with which we deal with issues like this here are very different from the reality on the streets. On my way back here from Seattle today, I read a long and fascinating article in the New York Times…

I would want to take this opportunity to first congratulate the majority of the Members of the Senate and Members on both sides of the aisle for by far the most significant step in legal reform which has been taken by the Senate in many…

unlike the situation at the time at which the Senator from North Dakota presented this amendment a week or so ago, we now have a bill in the Chamber in which there is no cap on punitive damages. I say that not in triumph but in regret. I…

I regret that I have to oppose the amendment sponsored by the two Senators from Alabama. In some respects, I am sorry that I have to do so, but I believe that I have good and sufficient reasons for doing so. First, the senior Senator from…

Indeed. Under the ``common knowledge'' doctrine the defendant is not held responsible for injuries to the plaintiff caused by the plaintiff's misuse of a product that is commonly known and recognized to be dangerous by ordinary users.

Section 102(c)(7) reads: Nothing in this title may be construed to * * * (7) supersede or modify any statutory or common law, including any law providing for an action to abate a nuisance, that authorizes a state or person to institute an…

I appreciate the Senator's request for absolute clarity. Further reference to the example of the ruptured oil tank may best illustrate the answer to your question. Suppose the oil tank ruptures as a result of a manufacturing defect. It…