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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…
my opposition to S. 208 is very simple. Enactment of this legislation will: First, seriously undermine a very successful system under which the private sector has financed and provided quality services to the public at reasonable rates…
I am sure it is a very rare occasion upon which I would disagree with the business judgment or the political judgment of my friend from Utah, Senator Bennett. And rarely have I been on the other side of a bill that the committee has…
the Senator from Arkansas and I have looked at this amendment of the Senator from Maine with regard to reinstating the policy of the 1965 act and find it very useful. The minority is at least prepared to accept it.
I have spoken my piece. I have the belief, as I have stated, that the legislation is ill-founded and unwise. It has passed the committee. It will most certainly probably pass the Senate. But my opinion on it is now recorded.
The situation has changed, the national parks are enormously popular--and indeed they are. One of the reasons they are enormously popular is because of the visitor facilities that have been provided under the Concessions Act. The type of…
I will say to my friend from Kentucky that I have not seen the bill, but I am inclined to be on it with him. I see all over the place signs that we are going to start charging for unimproved access to various recreation forests, national…
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…
I say to the Senator, I agree with him. We are seeing signs of it all over our State. I am seeing signs of it in various published statements around and about. I think it is time for Congress to speak to it. It is well and good to spend…
it is my hope that the Senate will see fit to adopt this amendment. It has been bipartisan and has been the subject of Small Business Committee hearings. The Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Bumpers], has been in favor of it. I do not see him…
one of the rationale that has been proffered for S. 4 is to improve American competitiveness, and this does.
And it is, if anything, more specific. So the pattern is running in the direction that causes the Senator anxiety.
I wish I had heard reason to oppose my amendment. I have heard lots of reasons to move on with it. I say to my friend from Ohio that we have been trying to get these amendments considered. We had hearings on this as far back as 1989. It…
at the end of my remarks I know what happens. This will be used as a means by which to destroy what we are trying to do for small business. The letter from the Secretary of the Treasury is precisely why we need this amendment. I will move…
if we have the potential for those thousands and thousands of lawsuits, maybe it tells us something about what we are doing. I would say to my friend from Ohio that this administration in the past year has put out the third largest number…
as the Senate considers the National Competitiveness Act, many Americans find it ironic that the biggest hurdle to U.S. competitiveness is oftentimes their own Government. The rules to regulate every aspect of business activity--how it…
It is not here anymore. And my question is, what is it about ruling that makes governments resist management? If the excuse was that the Bush administration stopped the Senator from doing it, well, that administration is gone.
nearly 10 years ago, a group of Senators on the Energy Committee began a diligent effort to save the Department of Energy's Uranium Enrichment Enterprise from extinction. The Department was faced with declining demand for its product…
Is it not also true that, whether we use OMB or CBO's figures, the deficit begins to rise dramatically after 1996?
Is it not also the case that at no time within this Presidency is the debt decreasing; that it continues to increase over the 5-year budget period? We often get confused with the concepts of deficit and debt. When we discuss declining…
I would like to direct a few questions through the Chair to the Senator from Oklahoma. One, is it not the case that President Clinton said we were going to have honest figures for a change and we were going to use CBO figures?
in his budget message to Congress and in his State of the Union Address, Clinton has painted a very rosy picture of the U.S. economy. He has said that investment is up; real investment in equipment grew 7 times as fast in 1993 as over the…
one of the things about budget deficits that ought to concern Americans is that it is the tool by which Government can excessively control the lives of Americans. With Congress inattentive and uncaring about the size of the budget deficit…
So this is what we are hearing from downtown, despite the credibility given by the President to CBO in its first State of the Union?
I say to the Senator from Montana, that is the only conclusion you can draw from the arguments raised against it. The whole argument that we are taking from Congress the power of the purse is nonsense. We will still have the power of the…
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