Angie Craig

I commend her to my colleagues as an Interior Secretary who will cooperate with Congress and collaborate with States and local governments and communities of interest affected by her Department's decisions. I also commend her to my…

I rise today with Senator Daschle to introduce the Harmful Non-native Weed Control Act of 2000--to provide assistance to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, non-native weeds on public and private land. I have…

there is some very important unfinished business from the last Congress that requires our early attention this year: renewing the adoption tax credit. As many of our colleagues know, this credit was enacted in 1996 to help families with…

I rise to introduce a bill, and I send it to the desk. Mr. President, the bill I introduce is the Hydroelectric Licensing Process Improvement Act of 2001. As its title suggests, the purpose of the bill is to improve the process by which…

I will be brief. Others of our colleagues have come to the floor. The hour is late and snow is falling. We gather here today in the full recognition that elections have consequences. There is no question that the November election changed…

the House is not in session because of the funeral of Congressman Julian Dixon. Many here in the Senate did not know the Congressman, but I did. I had the great opportunity to serve with him in the most difficult of circumstances. We…

recently, I attended the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-6) at The Hague, in the Netherlands. I went to observe Undersecretary of State Frank Loy and the rest of the U.S…

I have to remind him by quoting his own leader. Here is what his leader said in USA Today on September 8: We will stall the spending bills until we get our way. I suggest to the Senator from North Dakota that he ought to listen to his…

But a determined Republican Congress has been turning the tide, slowly but surely--even in the face of frequent vetoes and partisan obstruction--because it has believed in its mission of returning power to the people. People are empowered…

Let's be proud of what we have done. It is a major and positive step for caring and loving families who want children through adoption.

We went from a $5,000 to a $10,000 tax credit for a normal adoption. But most importantly, we focused our efforts this year on children of special needs... we went from a $6,000 to a $12,000 tax credit, and we phased it in more rapidly…

I believe it has worked. What I talked about today is who pays for it because what the Senator from North Dakota is suggesting, I think--and I agree with him, the tremendous benefit that has come, but he has also seen the doubling and the…

I note that the bill allocates approximately $100 million to HUD to fund its lead abatement program. In a number of areas around the country some of our children are still at increased risk of exposure to high levels of lead, which can…

I rise in support of the FY2001 Agriculture Appropriations bill. First I would like to thank Chairman Cochran and Senator Kohl for the hard work they have put into the Fiscal Year 2001 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug…

I happen to agree with the Vice President. I say that because the scientists we have had before us may generally agree that our globe is gaining some heat, with some temperature change, but they do not yet agree that fossil fuel usage and…

this Congress has taken a historic step to advance the process of self-determination of the American citizens of Puerto Rico by approving an appropriation of $2.5 million as requested by the President for a grant to the Elections…

the U.S. Forest Service has historically supported competition in the supply of fire retardants through the inclusion of a viability clause in its bids. For the first time, the upcoming 2001 bid process may be conducted by sealed bid. It…

the U.S. Forest Service has announced its intention to move to gum thickened/sodium ferrocyanide aerially applied fire retardants in the 2004 bid process. The Service is to be commended for this initiative that seeks a more effective and…

as you know, the after-effects of wildfires are devastating to the landscape. Mother Nature has a way of bringing life back to the land when all appears lost. However, even Mother Nature cannot erase for years the stains on the lands…

my attention was drawn this morning to an article in the Washington Times where our Secretary of Energy, Bill Richardson, defends energy policy by saying something that I found fascinating, to the point of absurdity. He says, ``We are not…

I mentioned that nearly 1.2 million acres of Federal land burned in my State this year, beautiful forested land that was in trouble environmentally, and when Mother Nature came along and struck with her violence, it all went up in smoke…

I could not and do not support CARA as it is currently crafted and as it was voted out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. I said very early on to the citizens of my State and to my colleagues on that committee that I would…

Would it be fair then to assume that all 2001 laboratory planning budgets prepared while the EM restriction was in place would be impacted by removal of the LDRD restriction?

When DOE's Environmental Management budget request for FY 2001 was submitted to Congress earlier this year it continued a restriction on the use of DOE environmental management funds for LDRD purposes carried over from FY 2000. The EM…

let me talk just a little more about what the Congressional Caucus on Adoption and the coalition we formed actually does. As you know, coalitions or caucuses here in the Congress are nonpartisan. We are bicameral. We are an alliance of…