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Mike Dean Crapo is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho, a position he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Crapo has focused on various issues including tax policy, healthcare, and trade. He has been an advocate for making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and has expressed support for targeted tariffs to protect American interests.
Many people will remember that a few short years ago we were talking about major surpluses across the board and for as far as we could see into the future. In fact, I have in front of me a projection that was based back in January of 2001…
Miguel Estrada believes his papers will show support for him. But the principle here is the principle--
If I understand correctly, you are reading that the internal work documents of a career attorney of the Solicitor General's Office in making recommendations on how to handle cases would not be something this Senate should try to…
The response to that is the CRP works very well. It is doing a lot of good for wildlife in the United States. It is not specifically focused on the acquisition of water rights. The expansion of the CRP, which we are trying to accomplish in…
The Senator talked about the fact this is based on a willing relationship. But if I understand the amendment correctly, it is willing only in the sense that any landowner who wanted to participate in the new CRP acreage that is authorized…
I join Senator Craig in acknowledging Chairman Kohl's and Senator Cochran's hard work on this bill and in expressing my deep concerns for the farmers of southern Idaho. Senator Craig has provided a good background on the issue and the…
Multiple uses of public lands necessarily require the balancing of occasionally competing interests and objectives. The most appropriate parties to make decisions regarding wildlife habitat development and other uses and activities are…
Concerns have been raised that Pittman-Robertson lands should not be used for field trials. As the Senator from New Hampshire knows, the sportsmen who pay this excise tax have varied interests-- they are hunters, field trialers, and…
Report language in the FY2001 Senate Energy and Water Development bill supports DOE's efforts to use the experience and expertise of scientists of the former Soviet Union to address waste management and environmental remediation challenges…
More can be accomplished when parties work together to solve problems than through conflict.
Objective science and reasonable solutions would then be available for policy makers, agency executives, and advocate groups involved in critical natural resource issues.
Mr. Smith expects that instead of massive engineering solutions to remove the waste, natural processes that cause less environmental disturbance will be more commonly utilized.
I rise to bring to the attention of my colleagues a significant achievement in the field of environmental science.
No, I have not discussed removing the administrative cap with those who placed it, but I would be very willing, as I said before, to do so and to work toward that end because I agree that that is one more inequity that should be removed. I…
Yes, Mr. Chairman, that is a correct interpretation, with this explanation. If the Member bringing the amendment wants the funding to be utilized in another program, he can easily do so in the amendment. But most of the time when we debate…
I appreciate that; and so to emphasize again this is talking about when a person is seeking to use their own private property in a way that could cause damage to someone else's property, and somehow final agency action becomes involved…
I would ask the gentleman one other question. On section 5, as we have talked earlier today, subsection 2 says, ``No compensation is made under this act with regard to damage to specific property, other than the property whose use is…
In that context, then, the agency would not be able to continuously, budget cycle after budget cycle, dodge the obligation of payment here by simply programming funds around or saying that the funds were insufficient?
Just to follow up on that, Mr. Chairman, if an agency failed to pay a claim and then stated their reason was they did not have money in their claim fund or whatever part of their budget was allocated to payment of claims, as I read the…
That is the question. Does that change also that portion of the act which simply is talking about the specific property impacted to say we are talking about all of the property owned by the property owner?
As I read it, the amendment says neither the sufficiency nor any other aspect of a private property impact analysis under this section is subject to judicial review.
I would just ask one question. I thought the gentlewoman said at the beginning of her debate that under this amendment, there would be a right for judicial review or the opportunity to go to court.
We have to understand, in this debate, the difference between protections under the U.S. Constitution and what this statute seeks to do. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the constitutional protections relate to what amounts to a…
The amendment allows compensation only if an agency does not conduct a property impact analysis. If the agency does conduct that analysis, they do not have to compensate, regardless what the impact analysis said.
If the agency is successfully able to identify a way to impact the property without totally taking it, there is no compensation as long as they analyze it and say so.
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