Angie Craig: “I talked about what could have happened in Idaho if, in fact, we had not been able to move the issue to Washington and…”

“I talked about what could have happened in Idaho if, in fact, we had not been able to move the issue to Washington and those who had been left to administer at the regional level had won. What the Senator from Arizona and I just talked about is an international problem and clearly an image problem on the part of the United States. How does it look for the United States not to be able to act in a timely and responsible manner to put key diplomats in place to do the work of our country? What does it say to the rest of the world? What does it say to the United Nations as it relates to how we prioritize the value of the U.N. and these very important commissions, the question of drugs being trafficked internationally, the question of human rights that this Senate has spent a great deal of time on over the years--human rights in this country and human rights around the world--and we have now lost key positions because we did not have people in place to lobby effectively for the position of this country, to make sure we had a voice on these key commissions. It speaks volumes about not only our inability to operate but the cumbersome nature of the system we have allowed to be created.”