T. Gorton

It is totally impossible to level the playing field...the speech of candidates is suppressed, the speech of others is enhanced.

I wonder if the Senator from Georgia agrees with this proposition. Does he not believe, as I do, that if this bill were to come back to the Senate with this modest experiment on medical savings accounts included, it would have a…

But have a statistic that you could go out and argue we need a national system, we need a national health care system because there are millions of people who are uninsured, rather than reduce that number by this new and constructive…

Is being filibustered and would be vetoed. The only way we can possibly get it into law is to marry it with something that the other side would like to see passed and let them determine whether or not their expressed devotion to a minimum…

So those of us who feel that cooperation, rather than confrontation, is the future for America and labor-management relationships, that this is the way we will build more jobs and greater competitiveness, that the only way we can authorize…

Does the Senator from Georgia agree that the rationale for this is that the various labor union bosses find absolutely anathema any proposal which would allow informal arrangements between management and labor that does not go through…

Mr. President, the only other comment about the program that I have to say is this. At one level, of course, balancing the budget is almost a moral course of action. It is simply wrong morally and ethically for us to continue year after…

The reason for this broad definition is to assure that the bill covers all theories of product liability, such as negligence, implied warranty, and strict liability. It is not broadly defined in order to extend to cases beyond product…

Yes, we have. I believe those laws can be valuable and help enhance highway safety and antidrunk driving initiatives, as well as encourage the responsible service of alcoholic beverages. Section 104 of the conference report is an example…

But it seems to me, I say to the Senator from North Dakota, there is a relationship between the standard and what kind of damages ought to be allowed over and above the actual losses suffered by the victim.

Exactly the same logic that applies to the entire bill. If the utility manufactured a toaster, which is clearly a product, and gave it as a bonus to its customers, that product would be subject to this bill. The whole logic of the bill is…

If I can say one other thing, obviously, this question did not come up during the long debate we had a year ago. If it had, to the best of my ability, I would have answered the question of the Senator the same way I am answering now. That…

Under the same circumstances that it would provide it for any other similarly situated organization, providing product liability provides it for any manufacturer, or for that matter, distributor, no matter how large or how small. The…

The answer to the question of the Senator from North Dakota is that in such States, such States are subject to the restrictions of this bill, exactly as they were under the intention of the bill as it was originally passed by the Senate…

Do I have a specific understanding of that or can I name the States? I would have to answer the question ``no.'' The committee report, which I believe to be accurate, says that most of the courts in most States treat these matters as…

My understanding was that it was the meaning as is stated in the conference committee report of the original bill that they were excluded unless the State had defined them as a product and had subjected them to strict liability. That was…

Let me finish. I think it is exactly the same exclusion for both unless a State legislature has determined that they ought to be considered products. That is a privilege that the State legislature has now and retains under this bill.

I think that is the case not only with electricity but with respect to tissue, organs, and blood.

The intent of the conference committee drafters was to see to it that subsection (i) and subsection (ii) read the same way, because we had already described them as having the same meaning in the original Senate bill. There was an…

I would say the second is correct, with the exception if a State wants to define it as a product and bring it under this bill, they can.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…