S8882 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 3, 2001 York, or , I think it is im- Ms. LANDRIEU. Yes. ment between the unions, the Team- portant for us to make sure the agri- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- sters, and the AFL-CIO, and it will cre- culture bill is fair and equitable to ator from Alaska. ate thousands of jobs in this country. every region of this Nation. f These are American jobs. The South has been shortchanged I urge Members to consider for a mo- ENERGY time and again. We are going to join a ment that over half of our deficit bal- coalition to make sure our farmers get Mr. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, ance of payments is the cost of im- their fair share and that we are pro- I will try to be brief because I am sure ported oil. Once the Congress speaks on viding the taxpayers a good return on there are many who would like to start this issue, there will be a reaction from the money that is invested. We need to the recess. OPEC. That reaction will be very inter- create ways to help farmers minimize Madam President, I call your atten- esting. OPEC is going to increase its the cost to the taxpayers and maximize tion and that of my colleagues to the supply and the price of oil is going to the total benefit. activity in the U.S. House of Rep- be reduced in this country. There is no resentatives which occurred the day f question about it. If OPEC knows we before yesterday, rather late at night. mean business about reducing our de- ELECTION REFORM This involved the reporting out of an pendence on imported oil, they will Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I will energy bill, a very comprehensive bill. clearly get the signal. take 2 more minutes, if I can, to say a As a consequence, the baton now passes Furthermore, it is rather interesting word about the election reform meas- to the Senate. There is going to be a what the House did with the disposi- ure that Senator DODD spoke about great deal of debate in the committee, tion of royalties. The anticipated rev- just a few minutes ago. on which I am the ranking member, enue from lease sales for the Federal I am proud to be a cosponsor of that along with other members of that com- land in this area is somewhere in the election reform measure. I thank the mittee, including the Senator from area of $1.5 to $2 billion. That money is Senator from Connecticut for leading Louisiana who just addressed this not just beginning to go in the Federal this effort, for being such a terrific and body. As a consequence of that debate Treasury; it will go into the develop- articulate spokesperson for improving and the development of our own energy ment of alternative and renewable our election system in this Nation. bill at this time, I will highlight one of sources of energy. So we have the funds It truly is a travesty and really a hy- the topical points in that bill that af- to develop the new technologies. pocrisy for us to encourage people to fects my State of Alaska. That is the One of the misconceptions in this register to vote, urge them to exercise issue of ANWR, the Arctic National country that covers energy is that it is their full rights as citizens, and then Wildlife Refuge. all the same. It isn’t. We generate elec- not count their votes, or turn them The action by the House is very re- tricity from coal. The State of West away at the polls. sponsible. It puts the issue in perspec- Virginia is a major supplier of coal. In the year 2001, that should not be tive. The issue has been that somehow Nearly 51 percent of the energy pro- the case. That should not be the case this huge area called ANWR, an area of duced in this country comes from coal. at any time. Unfortunately, there have 19 million acres, an area that is ap- We also have the capability to produce been dark places in our history where proximately the size of the State of from nuclear. About 22 percent of our people by the millions were turned South Carolina, is at risk by any ac- energy comes from nuclear. We also away or were not allowed to register. tion by the Congress to initiate author- use a large amount of natural gas, but Our country has made great progress. ization for exploration. our natural gas reserves are going As the last election showed, and as What the House has done is extraor- down faster than we are finding new we need to discuss when we come back, dinary, mandating a limitation of 2,000 ones. we have a lot of fixing to do. There are acres to be the footprint associated We have hydro; we have wind; we improvements that need to be made. with any development that might have solar. These are all important in We need to proudly stand up to the occur in that area. It takes the whole the mix. The funds from the sale or world and say: Yes, we want our citi- issue and puts it in perspective that, lease in ANWR are going to go back zens registered, and if they are a legal indeed, This is not more than four or and develop renewable sources of en- voter, whether they are in a wheel- five small farms, assuming the rest of ergy. chair, visually impaired, or have other the area of the State of South Carolina The point I make is why these ener- physical challenges, despite the fact were a wilderness. That is the perspec- gies are important. America moves on they may be older or not as strong and tive. oil. The world moves on oil. There is no as able, they have a right to vote and For those who argue ANWR is at alternative. We must find an alter- they have a right to have their vote risk, the House action has clearly iden- native, perhaps fuel sales, perhaps hy- counted, and they have a right to the tified the footprint will be 2,000 acres. drogen technology, but it is not there. kind of equipment and technology that What will that do to America’s tech- We will be increasingly dependent on is available that makes sure those nology, to America’s ingenuity? It will sources from overseas. votes are counted and certified. challenge it. It will say, we must de- I know the President pro tempore re- In conclusion, no system is going to velop this field, if indeed the oil is members the issue of the U2 over Rus- be perfect, but the evidence is in to there, with this kind of footprint. sia, Gary Powers, an American pilot in suggest that the system we have in the This technology has been developed an observation plane that was shot United States can and should be per- in this country. The exploration phase down. At that time, we were contem- fected. I am proud that in Louisiana we is three-dimensional. It suggests that plating a major meeting of the world do have standardized voting machines, you can drill under the U.S. Capitol leaders to try and relieve tensions. and we have worked very hard on open- and come out at gate 8 at Reagan Air- When his plane was shot down, tensions ing access to those polling places. port. That is the technology. This gives were increased dramatically between Even in Louisiana, where we do have side views of what lies under the the Soviet Union and the United standardized voting machines, and ground and the prospects for oil and States. It was a time of great tension. state-of-the-art technology in poor and gas. It mandates the best technology. The other day we had a U2 flying wealthy districts, rural and urban dis- It mandates we must develop this tech- over Iraq with an American pilot. We tricts, we can make improvements nology, and as a consequence puts a were enforcing a no-fly zone. We were there. challenge to the environmental com- doing an observation. A missile was I look forward to working with my munity, the engineering community, shot at that aircraft, barely missing it. colleagues on this important subject and our Nation. That challenge will It blew up behind the tail. It hardly when we return. help make this the best oilfield in the made page 5 in the news. I suggest the absence of a quorum. world, bar none. We are importing a million barrels a The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. What else does it have? It has a day from Iraq. We are enforcing a no- CARNAHAN). Will the Senator withhold project labor agreement. That means fly zone over Iraq. We have flown her request for a quorum call? there will be a contractual commit- 231,000 individual sorties, with men and

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We are going to put a of the bleakest, most remote places on How ironic; here we are, importing a ban on exports, resolving that issue. the continent’’ had somehow in the million barrels a day, enforcing a no- ANWR has been the focal point of a flick of a new editorial editor been fly zone, taking on his targets, but we lot of misinformation by environ- transformed, in 14 years, to some won- are taking this oil and putting it in our mental extremists. They have tried to derful wildlife preserve. aircraft to do it. I don’t know about hold it hostage for their own publicity, Having worked that miracle, Raines has our foreign policy. membership, and dollars, and they been designated as the next executive editor What does he do with the money he have been quite effective. But the of the paper. receives from us? His Republican House vote proves that when we really Over on the other side: Guards keep Saddam Hussein alive. He look beyond the rhetoric, we can safely , who succeeded Meg Greenfield develops a missile delivery capability. explore the resources in ANWR. as the editorial page editor of the Wash- He puts on a biological warhead, per- I applaud the House leadership for ington Post, effected a similar trans- haps. Where is it aimed? At our ally, crafting a compromise, a balanced bill, formation. Now a Post editorial describes one that I think every Member should that formerly remote, bleak wasteland as, ‘‘a Israel. Virtually every speech Saddam unique ecological resource’’ and says that Hussein gives is concluded with ‘‘death seriously consider. exploiting it ‘‘for more oil to feed more of to Israel.’’ After the recess, I am going to be dis- the same old profligate habits would be to Where does this fit in the big picture? cussing this issue at some length. I take the wrong first step.’’ The Post accused Six weeks ago we imported 750,000 bar- hope my colleagues will join me. We [those of us in this body who support this] of rels a day from Iraq. I find it frus- have heard from a few who say, we are ‘‘demagoguery.’’ trating. We had another little experi- going to filibuster this. You are going How clever. ence about 31⁄2 weeks ago. Saddam Hus- to filibuster an energy bill? Is that I ask unanimous consent the article sein was not satisfied with the sanc- what you really want to do? Are you be printed in the RECORD. tions being levied by the U.N. He said: going to filibuster and in effect cause There being no objection, the article I will cut my oil production 2.5 million us to increase our dependence on im- was ordered to be printed in the for 30 days. That is 60 million barrels. ported oil? Filibuster a bill that will RECORD, as follows: We all thought OPEC would stand up provide more American jobs for Amer- [From the Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga and increase production. They didn’t. ican labor? I welcome that debate. Free Press, June 3, 2001] They have a cartel. We can’t have car- It is amusing, and I am going to con- SHADY ENVIRONMENTALISM tels in this country. We have antitrust clude on this note because I see the (By Reed Irvine) laws against them. President pro tempore patiently wait- Environmentalists come in many shades of My point is quite evident. OPEC, the ing, how things change in our media as green, but a lot of them are just plain shady, Mideast nations, are trying to stick to- they are exposed to the pressures from ignoring science and common sense and jumping on the green bandwagon for par- gether, hold up the price, because they special interest groups. I am going to quote from the Chattanooga Free tisan political purposes. This is evident in are increasing their leverage on the the rush of people to bash the Bush environ- United States. What does that do to Press, June 3 of this year, an article mental initiatives. All of a sudden, thanks to the national security of this country? done by Reed Irvine. He cites the issue a last minute move by Bill Clinton, count- It is quite obvious to me. of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, less Americans began quaking in their boots, There is another argument that was the issue of arsenic in the drinking having learned from the media that some- used. We heard it on the House floor: water, the idea of trying to bring thing very few of them had ever heard of be- Ban the export of any Alaskan oil that things into balance. He specifically fore, arsenic in drinking water, might give takes on two of the major newspapers them cancer. might come from ANWR. Fine, I will They were not told that this conclusion support that. in this country, was based on studies in countries where the One of the amusing observations I and , by reminding level of arsenic in drinking water is as much made the other day is that one of the us of their gross inconsistency. He as 10 times higher that the 50 parts per bil- Members of the House got up and said states: lion maximum level permitted in the U.S. we have to oppose opening this because In 1987, a Washington Post editorial de- We have yet to see a study showing that can- all the oil is going to Japan. That is scribing ANWR as one of the ‘‘bleakest, most cers caused by arsenic are more prevalent in nonsense. So it is prohibited in the au- remote places on the continent’’ said, communities in this country where arsenic in drinking water is above average than in thorization. The last oil that was ex- ‘‘(T)here is hardly any other place where drilling would have less impact on sur- those communities where it is below aver- ported outside the United States from rounding life . . . Congress would be right to age. We have seen a story in the New York Alaska occurred a year ago last April, go ahead and, with all the conditions and en- Times reporting that arsenic is used at the a very small amount that was surplus. vironmental precautions that apply in Sloan Kettering Institute to cure a particu- But it is not surplus anymore because Prudhoe Bay, see what’s under the refuge’s larly vicious type of leukemia. California is now importing a great tundra.’’ Even more than arsenic in drinking water, deal of foreign oil because they have In 1988, a New York Times editorial said of the proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic Na- tional Wildlife Refuge has been used to bash increased their utilization while Alas- the area, ‘‘(T)he potential is enormous and the environmental risks are modest . . . the President bush and Vice President Dick Che- ka has declined in its production. likely value of the oil far exceeds plausible ney. Back in the 1980s. two of our most influ- If you go through the arguments that estimates of the environmental cost.’’ It con- ential newspapers, the Washington Post and will be before this body on the ANWR cluded, ‘‘(I)t is hard to see why absolutely the New York Times, favored exploitation of issue, please think about the action of pristine preservation of this remote wilder- the oil in this remote, inhospitable region of the House, the responsible action of the ness should take precedence over the na- Alaska. House. No longer is 19 million acres at tion’s energy needs.’’ In 1987, a Washington Post editorial de- risk, an area the size of the State of That was in 1988. We are importing scribing this area as ‘‘one of the bleakest, most remote places on this continent’’ said, South Carolina; 2,000 acres is at risk. Is right now close to 60 percent of the oil ‘‘(T)here is hardly any other place where that a reasonable compromise to ad- we consume. The article goes on to say: drilling would have less impact on the sur- dress our energy security? Certainly. It Since then our energy needs have become rounding life . . . Congress would be right to mandates the best use and the highest more pressing, but with new editorial page go ahead and, with all the conditions and en- use of particular knowledge. It has a editors, both these papers are now singing a vironmental precautions that apply to project labor agreement in it. The different tune about the ANWR. At the Prudhoe Bay, see what’s under the refuge’s unions think very highly of this be- Times, editorial-page editor Howell Raines tundra.’’ has dumbed-down the paper’s editorial pages In 1988, a New York times editorial said of cause it has become a jobs issue. and op-ed pages. A good example is an edi- this area, ‘‘(T)he potential is enormous and We have an obligation to do what is torial on drilling for oil in ANWR published the environmental risks are modest . . . the right for America. We know our envi- last March. It said, ‘‘This page has addressed likely value of the oil far exceeds plausible ronmental friends have taken a stand the folly of trespassing on a wondrous, wild- estimates of the environmental cost.’’ It con- on this, but most of their arguments life preserve for what, by official estimates, cluded ‘‘(I)t is hard to see why absolutely

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At the must act now because we are going to nonresidential investment tumbled at Times, editorial-page editor Howell Raines, be held responsible if, indeed, we do not a 13.6 percent rate. Consumer spending, has dumbed-down the paper’s editorial and act now. along with robust state and local gov- op-ed pages. A good example is an editorial Madam President, I thank the Presi- ernment spending, is the only thing on drilling for oil in the ANWR published dent pro tempore for his attention. I that prevented the economy from last March. It said, ‘‘This page has addressed remind my colleague we have some shrinking over the last three months. the folly of trespassing on a wondrous wild- heavy lifting to do because the Amer- life preserve for what, by official estimates, In an effort to stem the tide, the Fed- is likely to be a modest amount of economi- ican people are looking for action. eral Reserve has dramatically cut cally recoverable oil.’’ What the Post had de- We started in 1992. I was on the com- short-term interest rates by almost 3 scribed as ‘‘one of the bleakest, most remote mittee. Senator BENNETT JOHNSTON percentage points over the last 7 places on this continent,’’ had been trans- was chairman of that committee. We months. These are the most aggressive formed in 14 years to ‘‘a wondrous wildlife put out an energy bill from that com- rate reductions since the 1982 recession preserve.’’ Having worked that miracle, mittee. When it came to this floor, we under President Reagan. Raines has been designated as the next exec- gave away clean coal; we gave away Despite this negative economic news, utive editor of the paper. nuclear; we gave away hydro; we gave Fred Hiatt, who succeeded Meg Greenfield the Administration remains resolutely away natural gas; we gave away oil; as editorial-page editor of the Washington optimistic about the economy’s future, and we concentrated on alternatives Post, effected a similar transformation. Now pinning their hopes on the recently en- and renewables. We expended $6 billion. a Post editorial describes that formerly re- acted tax cut. Treasury Secretary Paul mote, bleak wasteland as ‘‘a unique ecologi- That was a worthwhile effort. But we O’Neill said last week, July 23, that the cal resource’’ and says that exploiting it ‘‘for didn’t increase supply. U.S. economy might grow by more more oil to feed more of the same old prof- This is a different year. The ‘‘perfect than 3 percent next year. The Presi- ligate habits would be to take the wrong step storm’’ has come together. Our natural dent’s chief economic advisor, Larry first.’’ The Post accused the Alaska senators gas prices have quadrupled. We haven’t who advocate drilling for oil in the ANWR of Lindsey, in a speech before the Federal built a new coal-fired plant in this Na- ‘‘demagoguery.’’ Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, re- tion since 1995. We haven’t done any- Sen. Frank Murkowski sent a letter to the affirmed this optimistic outlook. Post in which he pointed out that Alaska has thing with nuclear energy in a quarter 125 million acres of national parks, preserves of a century. We haven’t built a new re- What concerns me is the effect that and wildlife refuges, of which 19 million finery in 25 years. Now we suddenly these tax cuts have had on the econ- acres are in the ANWR. Congress set aside 1.5 find that we don’t have a distribution omy so far. million ANWR acres for possible oil and gas system for our electrical generation or Despite the Fed’s efforts to cut short- exploration. The Bush proposal is to permit our natural gas generation. We are con- term interest rates to simulate the drilling on about 2,000 acres, about one-hun- sluggish economy, long-term interest dredth of 1 percent of the entire refuge. Sen. strained. It is affecting the economy. It Murkowski concluded, ‘‘I suggest the dema- is affecting jobs. It is going to get rates have remained flat or have even goguery comes when you follow the extreme worse. The American people expect us risen since earlier this year. The inter- environmentalist line: 19 million acres for to come back and do something about est rate on the 10-year bond, for exam- wildlife and pristine conditions and not even it. They will not stand for ple, increased from 4.75 percent in mid- 2,000 acres for energy security.’’ Energy secu- grandstanding. They will not stand for March to just over 5.1 percent today, rity is not a minor consideration. The U.S. the status quo. They will not stand for August 3. Long-term rates have limited imported 37 percent of its oil in the 1970s and the threat of filibusters. efforts by the Fed to stimulate the 57 percent today. It is said that ANWR could economy. supply only enough oil to meet our needs for I thank the Chair. I yield the floor. six months. That might be true if ANWR The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- What’s keeping those rates from fall- were our only source of oil. The U.S. Geo- ator from West Virginia. ing is the expectation by Wall Street logical Survey estimates that there is Mr. BYRD. Madam President, what is that the recently enacted tax cut has enough oil there to replace our imports from the time limit for Senators to speak? seriously jeopardized our debt retire- Saudi Arabia for the next 20 to 30 years. Only The PRESIDING OFFICER. Ten min- ment efforts. Fed Chairman Greenspan a very shady environmentalist would shun utes. said last week, July 24, before the Sen- that. Mr. BYRD. I thank the Chair. ate Banking Committee that long-term Mr. MURKOWSKI. My next effort Madam President, I ask unanimous rates are higher than expected because after the recess will be to come back consent that I may speak using what- of Wall Street’s uncertainty about the and discuss the energy situation. It is ever time is necessary. size of the surpluses and how much not a matter of pointing fingers. When The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without debt the federal government will be we come back, I will say why we are fo- objection, it is so ordered. able to retire. cusing in on oil exploration as well. I f am going to try to answer the question Just 4 months ago, the President sent why is it safer and better to import our ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND his budget to Congress and projected a oil rather than drilling right here in BUDGET SURPLUS REVISIONS $125 billion non-Social Security surplus America by providing the facts. We Mr. BYRD. Madam President, the in the current fiscal year. Today, that need to know what we have in America Commerce Department reported last surplus may have virtually dis- first. week, July 27, that the U.S. economy appeared. Now you see it. Now you I am going to talk about how the ex- grew at an anemic 0.7 percent rate in don’t see it. It did a Houdini on us. It perts estimate ANWR might only con- the second quarter of this year, April virtually disappeared. tain a 6-month supply of oil, which is 1–June 30. This is the slowest growth The Treasury Department this week, absolutely ridiculous because that rate in 8 years, and considerably lower July 30, announced its debt retirement would be true only if we produced no than the 8.3 percent growth rate seen plans for the next 3 months. Instead of oil nor imported any into the United just 18 months ago. retiring $57 billion in debt, as the States for 6 months. ANWR has the po- ‘‘If you applied logic to the [eco- Treasury had expected on April 30 be- tential of equaling what we are cur- nomic] news these days,’’ wrote Allan fore the tax cut was passed, the Treas- rently importing from Saudi Arabia for Sloan in the Washington Post on Tues- ury now plans to borrow $51 billion. a 30-year period of time. day, July 31, ‘‘the logical conclusion That’s a difference of $108 billion. We are going to answer the question would be that the economy has fallen In part, this quarter’s borrowing re- of whether we should focus more on off a cliff and is about to splatter all sults from a bookkeeping gimmick in conservation. I am going to answer over the canyon floor and take us with the tax cut bill and will be paid back that by saying we need a balance. it.’’ next quarter. But, the fact remains

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