Angie Craig

The Government doesn't need to do it, the law requires it to do it. I did not write the law; it was written in 1935 before the Senator from South Carolina and I ever got here.

No, no. Because you would have to use it. If it sat idle, it would lose anywhere from 8 to 10 percent a year on interest it could be earning.

They have borrowed it by law, as was prescribed in 1935, from the trust funds. That is the only way the money can be held in the trust funds to generate interest on the account. That is correct.

as a cosponsor of Senator Hutchinson's bill to protect the states' claims on the funds from the settlement that they negotiated with the tobacco industry, I oppose the Harkin-Specter amendment. I am not a lawyer, and maybe that's why I'm…

Today Senator Bingaman and I join to introduce a very important piece of legislation, the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act. This bill simply expands Medicare Part B coverage to give seniors access to medical nutrition therapy services by…

I wholeheartedly agree with Attorney General Lance's confidence that the Idaho state legislature is quite capable of properly determining how Idaho's share of the tobacco settlement should be spent. It is my strong hope that the Senate…

I am today introducing along with Senator Murkowski, the National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999. This is an act that has been very beneficial to the Nation and deserves to be reauthorized. The National Cooperative Geologic…

I join my colleague from Missouri and others who have spoken on the floor in relation to the legislation that we will begin to debate next Tuesday, I believe, Senate bill 280. We are calling it the Ed-Flex bill because of a demonstration…

I promised to share with the people of Idaho and the nation what comments I made in the closed session of the Senate deliberating on the impeachment of President Clinton. What I told my colleagues as we deliberated was this: If we were in…

The reason I say it is an important debate--and I associate myself with the remarks of the Senator from New Hampshire--if not the most important debate we will become involved in in this decade is that it is long term. What we do in this…

I rise to introduce the Hope for Children Act, which is also being introduced today in the House of Representatives by Congressman Tom Bliley of Virginia. I think all of us--no matter what party or philosophy--share the hope that every…

I wanted to add for the Record some of the analysis we are now doing about what the President said last night and, more importantly, how he proposes to spend the taxpayers' money. The surplus that he projects, and that I think we generally…

It is agreed that certain language added to the Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery and Economic Stability Act after the bill was proposed by Congressman Wally Herger related to grazing within the pilot project areas may have introduced…

I rise to commend Chairman McConnell for the work he has done on the foreign operations portion of the Omnibus Appropriations bill. The fiscal year 1999 foreign operations appropriations package is very different in size and character from…

As a sponsor of the Udall Act and supporter of Parkinson's research funding, I appreciate the Chairman's interest in these matters. The NIH claimed to spend more than $89 million on Parkinson's research in 1997. The Congress set a baseline…

for some months now, pressure has been building for the enactment of legislation that would address the long-neglected but widespread problem of religious persecution in a number of countries, notably persecution of Christians. This…

I thought for a few moments this morning I would discuss briefly the agricultural package, because it is one of those major areas of concern and dispute for a period of time up until late last evening--that, of course, and the educational…

last night there was an interesting discussion on CNN. It went something like this: The White House is now spending the surplus--the surplus that the President, a few months ago, said had to be guaranteed for only Social Security. I am…

About a year ago, the Senator from Washington came to the floor and offered an amendment that would dramatically change the way money flows out of Washington back to local schools, local units of education. And as I remember, there was a…

I am, once again, pleased to see our President engaged and spending time talking about education. He spent so much time skipping class and trying to avoid detention that he failed to learn about what Republicans and the majority here in…

It was a dramatic vote in the sense that Senators were voting their conscience about where the public wanted the educational dollar to go, not to get bound up in the Federal bureaucracy and have a lot of it spun off here, as the President…

There is the issue of Social Security. So important was it that the President declared it in his State of the Union Address as an effort to save Social Security. Yet, the President has not bothered to make one step in that direction. The…

let me join with my chairman, Senator Thad Cochran, chairman of the Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee, who spoke with a certain amount of frustration in his voice just a few moments ago. He has every reason to be frustrated. This…

I will take just a few moments because I want to sandwich some comments into this very important discussion on cutting taxes and lowering the rate of impact our Federal Government has on the average American family. The Senator from…

Somehow there is this belief here in Washington that you can save Social Security, but you can't give tax relief. Well, I, like Senator Grams, believe we must and can do both, not only to keep the economy moving and growing, but also to…