May 5, 1994
If I can for just a few moments speak with some experience, both having served on the House Ethics Committee and now as a Member of the Senate Ethics Committee. While I applaud the environment of reform and the intent to reform the gift…
Larry Craig
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Larry Craig is a former U.S. Senator from Idaho, serving from 1991 to 2009 as a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure, he was known for his work on issues related to transportation, agriculture, and natural resources. Craig was a prominent advocate for the construction of highways and infrastructure improvements in Idaho. He also served on various Senate committees, including the Appropriations Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. In 2007, he was involved in a controversial incident at an airport restroom that led to his decision not to seek re-election in 2008, ultimately resigning from the Senate in September of that year.
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May 2, 1994
Then on February 17, I once again wrote to him because there appeared in a gun magazine a list of additional semiautos that some gun interests felt might be banned by your amendment to the Senate crime bill. That list included 180…
May 2, 1994
the reason I say this is just to lay facts and frustrations on the Record because I, in no way, question the intent or the integrity of the Acting President pro tempore and the intent of her legislation. The problem is there is a very real…
May 2, 1994
it is most fortuitous that you are in the chair today when I come to put into the Senate Record information that deals with legislation you and I were directly involved in last December. It is a piece of legislation--an amendment to the…
Apr 13, 1994
I rise to express my strongest support of S. 455, the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act of 1993 [PILT]. The current PILT legislation was enacted in 1976. The payments made under that act have never been adjusted for inflation since the bill…
Apr 13, 1994
For well over a decade, the National Association of Counties lobbied this Congress to be more responsive to the needs of those States who had large tracts of public land, and in 1976 the payment-in-lieu-of-tax concept became law. That was…
Apr 12, 1994
Mr. President, I rise to discuss an amendment in behalf of Pluess-Staufer of California--a calcium carbonate company with claim holdings in the Lanfair Valley section of the California desert. The purpose of this amendment is very…
Apr 12, 1994
let me express my agreement with the expressions of the Senator from Wyoming that this is an excellent amendment. But I hope it is a reflection of the sentiment of the Senate that public policy well ought to recognize the right of private…
Apr 12, 1994
The National Association of Mining Districts, a group that I worked very closely with in California; the mining interests that employ thousands and thousands of people in the desert. But another group that really went unspoken to in a lot…
Mar 22, 1994
I just want to bring to the attention of the Members of the Senate an article that appeared in the Washington Times this morning. It is as a result of a memo to Attorney General Janet Reno from an Assistant Attorney General Walter…
Mar 10, 1994
I commend the Assistant Republican leader for offering this substitute to S. 4. Senator Simpson's substitute is the real National Competitiveness Act. The underlying bill, S. 4, is really the Picking Favorites and Industrial Policy Act…
Mar 1, 1994
My conclusion is this, and this chart dramatically shows it. If I can accept the concept of capital budgets based on the investment scenario of the Clinton administration, then these kinds of conclusions can be drawn. All of us know we…