Angie Craig

One other issue I think is important: The President did something the other night that is the most radical expression on gun control by any President in the history of this country--I think that is worth repeating--the most radical…

Last November, the Centers for Disease Control reported 34,000 Americans die every year from firearm injuries. If there is good news to be found in that terrible statistic, it is that the number has declined every year for the last 4…

I am very respectful of the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Utah who have tried to reshape bankruptcy law in this country to be fair and equitable and representative of those who find themselves in desperate straits as a result of…

I do not know how you can support the Levin amendment because it undermines basically all of those policies. The bankruptcy code establishes a structure that ensures everyone who is owed money by the debtor will be treated fairly when the…

I come to the floor as one who spent over 90 minutes on the floor of the House last week listening to the President's State of the Union Message. For a few moments, I would like to kind of analyze that State of the Union Address as seen…

This amendment would allow pawned tangible personal property to be excluded from the bankruptcy estate, so long as the debtor has no legal obligation to repay the money or redeem or buy back the property and the contract or statutory…

It is very important there be research conducted at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) that supports the EM mission of the Lab. I would point out that the INEEL has been designated as the lead Environmental…

the other morning on the ``Today'' show-- which many of us wake up and listen to as it relates to the morning news or the late-breaking events--there was a Puerto Rican terrorist who the day before had just been released from prison under…

I was just informed, and I think it is reasonable, Mr. President, to suggest if Hurricane Floyd sweeps up the coast and destroys some of our timberlands in the next few days, we are going to have the President come to us asking for…

Last year, commercial sales of logs by the Forest Service produced a profit of $14.7 million. Last year's stewardship sales, the kind that the Senator from Nevada is talking about, for the purposes of forest health, the kind that is going…

I guess the best way to do that is to kind of take a snapshot back to 1989 and 1990 when this country had a vibrant forest products industry and a green sale program on the forested lands, the forested public lands of our Nation. I would…

I guess I can say at the outset that the only thing I arrive at in trying to consider a $34 million cut in a very essential program to the U.S. Forest Service... is "frustration" over the lack of understanding by a Senator from Nevada who…

The program has been increased by $10 million over last year while some, including the President, suggested it ought to be increased by more.

Unemployment in rural timber-dependent communities is in double-digit figures despite rosy employment figures in the rest of America. The Senator from Oregon and I visited similar communities--he in his State, I in my State--over the…

as we work to pass Interior appropriations, of course, because this is a piece of legislation that is key to so many important areas of our States, whether they be east or west, it is also an opportunity to attempt to change what is…

When I went home during the August recess, I held meetings with the agricultural community. The Senator from Illinois has a good many farmers, but there was a different kind of person in my meetings than could possibly have been in any…

I must tell you that I listened with a degree of frustration, certainly in no disrespect to the Senator, but to what I sensed was a lack of understanding of what has brought us to this issue and why the Appropriations Committee found it…

let me close out the debate on this side of this issue by saying to Senators that you will have an opportunity to vote to table the McCain amendment in a few moments. It is an amendment that really does not face the reality of the…

I rise in support of S. 1429, the Taxpayer Refund Act of 1999. This debate has been about numbers and surpluses and budget rules. To some extent, it has to be. But our efforts to provide tax relief are also about something more important…

I rise today to recognize teachers across America for the vital work they do. I come from a family of educators, so I have seen firsthand the grueling work teachers go through every day--not for their own gain, but because they care about…

Any time you decrease the debt held by the public, you increase the ability of Government to pay their obligations to Social Security. Because those obligations will not be ingrained in new spending--be it discretionary or entitlement…

The Federal Government has borrowed money from the trust funds, as the Senator knows. That is the law that was created.

the debate today on the floor on S. 557 is not a fraud; it is a real shakeup with reality that a lot of our Senators and some Members of this Congress don't want to face, because for years we have had the tremendous flexibility in this…

I think, be it Senator Allard or his wife or myself or my wife or any American, we woke up this morning to watch the morning news to be saddened by the situation in Kosovo but to be brought to tears by the situation in Littleton, CO. It is…

It creates an obligation to repay because it is taken out in the form of Treasury notes and interest paid, and certainly there is an obligation to pay back. Whether it is an obligation to pay back or a debt, then that is a game of…