Malcolm Wallop

I rise in opposition to the nomination of Derek Shearer to be Ambassador to Finland. While Finland may not figure in the world's hot spots right now, it may unfortunately again become more central to United States policymaking--given…

2 weeks ago 40 Republican Senators wrote our leader asking him to convey to the majority leader our deep concern over the seeming reluctance of the majority to set up a mechanism for holding Whitewater hearings. It has been nearly 2 months…

I thank the Chair. Madam President, these facts and details have gone largely unreported in much of the media, but they have not been ignored by everyone. The New Republic magazine in its May 9 issue discussed these revelations and their…

if we are truly seeking answers, we must face reality: We are not getting them. The Clintons are either unwilling or unable to provide thorough, complete, and factually accurate answers, even after being hounded and cajoled. As the…

I had thought when I announced that I was not going to run for reelection, that it would be a sad moment for me. Mr. President, I have decided that it was perhaps the wisest decision of my political career.

I thank the Senator from Kentucky. Mr. President, I speak today as a former chairman, and former vice chairman, of the Ethics Committee which sat in judgment on one of the most difficult and contentious ethics cases that this Senate has…

last January 25, President Clinton used his State of the Union Address to assure Americans that he was tough on crime. He urged that we pass a ``strong, smart, tough crime bill,'' and endorsed, among other things, boot camps for young…

I support S. 445, the payment in lieu of taxes legislation. I am an advocate of and a cosponsor of this legislation. The way to get rid of payments in lieu of taxes would be to treat the public lands States in the manner that all those…

I hope that somehow or another we can find a way to come to our senses, because it is not a responsible thing to do to acquire more and more land without the means of caring for it. I know ranchers who do that, and the condition of those…

there is something really important in play here. Senators should be aware of it. The Senator from Louisiana, the able chairman of the committee, was talking about that hammer that is put in the hand of the landholder. The other side of…

I oppose this amendment, though I will not call for a vote on it. This is an amendment that is the reflection of dozens of other amendments over the years and is the point I was trying to make in the morning hour. We add and we add to this…

I did not say 3,700 people had been taken out. I said if you look at budget projections, it is 3,700 people. Personnel by which the National Park Service will be reduced over the next 5 years. I did not say they had been. What has taken…

it is not often that the Wilderness Society and the Senator from Wyoming are on the same side of an issue. It may be that they would even change their side of the issue if they knew I was going to insert their impacts. But in the majority…

I say the other side of that coin to the chairman of the committee is Secretary Babbitt who had said that he would force them to accept whatever offer he makes or remain inholdings forever. The other side of that coin is the arrogant abuse…

She makes a compelling argument in favor of allowing owners of single-family residences in the proposed Mojave National Park to occupy private land, to construct, modify, replace or improve those residences. Now the backlog of authorized…

I would. But there is no reason it has to be. They hunt in the Grand Teton National Park. It does not stop anything from going on there. Hunting can be eliminated under that status, as well. It is not an issue between hunting and mining…

I would urge the Senator from California to go as well and get the copies of the airport trust fund and the highway trust fund and the Social Security trust fund and all the other trust funds that are around. These are not--and her own…

I will not continue this except to say one of the experiences I have had since I have been on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee was meeting a gentleman in Kentucky, in a national park, who had an inholding that he could not get…

Last, Mr. President, I very much wish to thank the Senator from California for accepting the law enforcement provisions. I think it is in all of our intent that we do not provide a pipeline in the interstate highway system out of Mexico…

let me express my thanks to the Senator from California and her staff for accommodating us in conversations last evening on some of the less vexing, but, nonetheless, significant portions of this bill. I appreciate a willingness to listen…

I would just say that USA Today is as confused by the budget process of Congress as are most Americans. They are dead wrong. There is not a little drawer down in Treasury inside of which lies land and conservation funds waiting for us to…

so $125 million is a lot more than the Secretary says is needed. And I have found with the Secretary that times are fluid; that he can say whatever is necessary to be said to achieve whatever result is necessary to achieve without regard…

Is the Senator aware that my amendment adopts all her findings and, therefore, the mining issue, to the extent it exists, exists in yours as well as mine? We do not permit mining, just valid existing rights, which yours does. So mining is…

let me talk just a couple of minutes about the studies. There is a lot of wingding that goes on around this thing. The two studies mentioned in 1979 and 1987 have no management review. They are not traditional studies that the Park Service…