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Angie Craig is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and support for family farmers. Craig has been an advocate for policies that address the challenges faced by her constituents, particularly in the agricultural sector, often speaking out against trade policies that negatively impact farmers. She is known for her active engagement in legislative matters and her commitment to representing the interests of Minnesota families.
soon the Senate will take up S. 1938, the Cabin User Fee Fairness Act of 1999. It is designed to set a new course for the Forest Service in determining fees for forest lots on which families and individuals have been authorized to build…
In a back room, the President of the United States has been sitting down with a Saudi Arabian sheik. Here is why: He is begging. The President of the United States is begging a Saudi sheik to reach over and turn their oil spigot on a…
I have to respond to something that was in today's USA Today paper, September 8. I know the Presiding Officer is a member of our leadership. Let me, for a few moments, tell you what he and I are going to expect in the final month of this…
If you are for the Gore prescription drug health plan, then you are going to have a major premium increase, and you may get the plan in 8 years. It will be a Government plan, and it will be a major Government takeover of health care for…
I support PNTR for China because it will seal the deal on the U.S.- China Bilateral Agreement and finally allow U.S. business and farmers the access to Chinese markets that the Chinese have to our market. In other words, America has had a…
Last week, I sent to the President a letter indicating we had discovered that the administration, in their roadless area initiative, was not using the current reports on catastrophic fire as it related to their initiative. We would ask…
Six and one-half million acres of public land have now burned. For those who might be listening and who do not understand what 1 acre of land represents, or 1 square mile of land, let me suggest that it is the entire State of Maryland…
I thank Senator Kyl for what I think is a very clear explanation of what happens when you have this massive fuel-loading that has occurred on the floors of our public land forests in the Nation. When he talks about active management, he is…
I went home to my beautiful State of Idaho and watched it burn-- hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland, grassland, wild habitat, and environmentally sensitive land burned with catastrophic fires that were too dangerous, too hot, and…
I want to ask the Chairman about a small provision in report language, under the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The report encourages the agency to interface with a consortium of universities on developing carbon dioxide emissions…
I join with all of my fellow Senators today to express our feeling and mourn the death of our colleague, Senator Paul Coverdell. I always find these kinds of circumstances difficult to speak to, to find the appropriate words to reflect my…
Where trees must be removed--merchantable timber--there are areas where thinning is clearly necessary and so proscribed under the act.
certainly, Kay Bailey Hutchison, our colleague from Texas, has led us on the issue of the marriage penalty tax. I think probably she has sensitized all of us to it as only a woman can. I mean that in the sense of understanding the true…
We checked with the Forest Service when we prepared the Forest Service budget, and their preparedness program has been fully budgeted for the year. They told us that it was adequate to meet their needs, and the current needs.
I am quite sure they would say that it is funded adequately because this administration does not want to cut trees commercially.
Yes, we can, because I am giving categorical facts that the President's chief of the Forest Service said the preparedness program was fully funded. That is all I am saying.
Those would be under the commercial logging program because they could be done for less money and more efficiently. And that is the point of my argument, I say to the Senator. That is the program you are cutting.
In the Tahoe Basin Restoration Program, that is near and dear to the Senator--and it is to me; it is a beautiful part of our country.
First, allow me to thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for their hard work on the Fiscal year 2001 Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. Despite scarce resources and tough choices, they came up with a fiscally…
Does the death tax really impact family-owned farms and businesses? The answer is an emphatic ``Yes!'' According to the book, ``The Millionaire Next Door,'' self-employed individuals are four times as likely to accumulate $1 million in…
Repealing the estate tax is one of the more populist tax cuts considered by Congress this session. Not only do studies show the estate tax has a dramatic impact on the ability of family-owned farms and businesses to survive and create job…
If I may answer, it is because this committee is formulated under FACA. Go to the Federal Advisory Committee Act and there before you will be all the terms by which this committee will be structured. So instead of listing page after page…
My amendment would earmark $1 million from the Forest Service's timber sales account and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to charter an advisory committee, under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, to review the…
Is the nature of a catastrophic event that is in the nature of forest health. We now have 22 million acres of our forested lands in crisis because of the fuel loading that has been talked about because of a management style of the last 50…
I call it that which destroys the American dream. I have always been amazed that anyone who serves in public life can justify the revenue they spend for the sake of Government as somehow destroying someone else's life or property. Yet over…
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