On the recordOctober 8, 1997
I support it because if this amendment is to be attached anywhere, it should be attached to an authorization legislation and not an appropriation bill. My favorite philosopher, as I have said many times on this floor, is Archie, the Cockroach. One of the things Archie said was that, "Now and then, a person is born who is so unlucky he runs into accidents that started out to happen to somebody else." That is the way our Committee on Appropriations feels on this issue, because this is an authorization issue. It is an issue which ought to be dealt with in that committee, and yet we are now told that the authorizing committee may be dropping this amendment because they think it will make it impossible to pass their bill. Well, boys and girls, if you think it is going to make it impossible to pass an authorization bill, what do you think it is going to do to the appropriation bill?
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