Malcolm Wallop: “this amendment will require the inspector general of the Department of the Interior to report to the appropriate…”

“this amendment will require the inspector general of the Department of the Interior to report to the appropriate committees on the implementation of this act and the effect of such implementation on facilities operated pursuant to concession contracts and on visitor services. This is a biannual report, and it will allow us some oversight capability to chart the progress of the concession program to ensure that the objectives of this legislation are being met. I think it is important. It is clear, I hope, to people that I passionately do not believe that this bill will accomplish what its proponents suggest it will. They believe, as passionately, that it will, and that is what we gather on the floor of the Senate for. It is theoretically an arena and not a stage. But this will give us the ability to look back and see. Too often what the Senate does, what the Congress does is toss off a proposal that seems to have public popularity, and then we never look back until way down the road and it is too late. We have seen what happens when concessions fail, and we have seen that it is not possible to get that kind of money out of this Congress, and it is going to be worse in the future than it has ever been in the past. This will do nothing more than give us a report that could give us a possible headline that there are rough roads ahead. We may be able to see that road and may be able to react.”