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Nuclear waste legislation needs to do four things. First, it needs to provide for the storage of nuclear waste between 1998, when a quarter of the Nation's nuclear powerplants will have run out of storage space, and the date, 14 or more…
Mr. President, one of the most curious things about this whole debate to me is how my friends from Nevada can be so opposed to the storage of nuclear waste when they have not only countenanced but welcomed and sought the explosion of…
if one would pick this issue based on personalities I would never have been involved in the nuclear waste debate because my two colleagues from the State of Nevada are two of the most popular Senators, two of my best friends, and two of…
today, I join thousands of Americans and other admirers around the world in paying tribute to Bill Lee, retired chairman of Duke Power Co. and a personal friend, who died on July 10, 1996, in New York at age 67. To eulogize William States…
the DOE response, which I interpret to favor this amendment, is illuminating in several respects. First of all, it confirms that there are real cost savings to be realized by raising the general plant project limit. DOE estimates that $4.7…
this amendment raises the statutory fiscal ceiling set in section 3122 on a type of activity in the Department of Energy known as general plant projects. The amendment also requests a report from the Secretary of Energy with…
it is with a great sense of urgency that I speak today with my good friend, the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Breaux], to bring to the attention of my colleagues an extremely important issue in my State of Louisiana. Mr. President, since…
the bill that I have just introduced, which is strongly supported by the administration, amends or repeals a number of sections in the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 that are…
I am advised it is part of this, which makes it nonenforceable, save for an act of Congress. Then you have the Supreme Court. I mean, should the Supreme Court be able to raise your taxes?
Is the Senator aware of the huge amount of experience in the States where they have either constitutional provisions requiring a balanced budget or prohibiting the incurment of debt, or other constitutional provisions with respect to the…
I rise to oppose this balanced budget amendment, recognizing that some of the people in this Chamber, for whom I have the most respect, are for it. But I oppose it to a large extent because of what I call the dilemma of enforceability. My…
We had a provision in Gramm-Rudman called sequestration. My colleagues will remember that well. If the budget was not balanced, or if we did not meet the target provided in Gramm-Rudman, there was to be this automatic guillotine that fell…
the Presidential years are referred to as the ``silly season'' and certainly this Presidential year is the silly season. The competition for the award for the most improvidently proposed bill is very keen in the Chamber, Mr. President, but…
That is precisely right. One of the problems with Russia now is that they do not have open markets. We are trying to encourage that. It so happens that chickens are a huge business in Russia, and the American chicken is more economically…
I got to the floor to speak about China, but first a word about chickens. Mr. President, chickens may be an important industry in Arkansas, and they are, but the reason I think it is entirely legitimate--in fact, entirely important--for…
This is not the only item of interest and not the only thing that the President discusses with President Yeltsin, but it certainly is a legitimate one. I can say if those were Louisiana chickens, I would be calling him up and saying, ``Mr…
Would my friend find at fault this formulation, that the United States should make it clear to both sides that reunification, if it occurs, is a bilateral decision of the two countries, to be taken peacefully, and that the United States…
When the statute says we should invite President Li, they should come with all appropriate courtesies, that is just not a casual visit, as if by a foreign tourist. "All appropriate courtesies" means, in effect, we ought to invite a head of…
what I meant is sort of a precipitating event that caused this tit-for-tat thing, and the Chinese are clearly greatly to be criticized for all of those things that my colleague said, but I really meant the precipitating events. You can…
If they violate it--my own opinion is they did. That violation was, what, 3, 4 years ago. I forget exactly when. They have the capacity to continue to violate it further, but are not at this time. I do not excuse that. But I say that…
I know. But when it says we should seek a visit with ``all appropriate courtesies,'' what does ``all appropriate courtesies'' mean?
the shift in power which this would bring out would be absolutely mind-boggling to me. You know, the whole fight would be, ``Can you get in the President's budget or not?'' It would make total supplicants of all Members of Congress. You…
I wonder if the Senator finds this parallel: In a conference report, when the Senate and the House go to a conference committee, there are bargains struck, and finally a bill put together. Would it not be somewhat like being able to strike…
Mr. President, I want to make a few initial observations about where we are with respect to this bill and where I hope we will end up. Almost every park and public land bill reported from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in this…
when the matter originally came up, I strongly opposed the resolution because it seemed to be a shift of ground away from the Shanghai Communique which has been the basis for almost a quarter of a century of our relationship to China. Mr…
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