Angie Craig

It is this Senator's opinion that by selectively singling out ``new'' water rights, you leave open to opinion by a very unfriendly solicitor and by a very unfriendly State water rights Secretary this issue. I think the question must be…

If the Senator had said ``all'' water rights, I would agree with him. The Senator did not. His amendment explicitly singles out ``new'' water rights. It is very important that we have that understood for the record, and it is important, I…

I only say to the junior Senator from New Mexico that his language was not at issue because it was not the document that makes it to the floor of the Senate coming out of the committee for the one area of the committee of jurisdiction that…

On March 17, 1996, Representative and Mrs. Benjamin Lu of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative office in Washington, DC, will sponsor the Music for Democracy concert at the Kennedy Center. It will be an occasion to celebrate…

I bring to the Senate this afternoon what in Idaho has been a phenomenally serious and frustrating matter in relation to a young adopted child and his adoptive parents. I say that because 6 years ago the Swenson family of Nampa, ID…

authorization of the Endangered Species Act expired nearly 4 years ago on September 30, 1992. Since then, Congress has kept the law alive by feeding it new appropriations each year. Funding without authorization is not the way to enact…

the disastrous flooding in the northwestern United States has covered many areas with layers of flood-borne boulders, gravel, woody debris, and associated materials. Among those areas of particular concern are U.S. Department of…

as you know, my State of Idaho was devastated like others in the Northwest from floods in recent months. Many agricultural lands have sustained damage which must be repaired if the land is to be returned to productive use. It is my…

I will not stand before any of the Members of the Senate today and attempt to justify large multinational, billion-dollar corporations getting taxpayer-subsidized promotion programs. That needs to be reformed, no question about it. In the…

Let me put in the Record a letter from the Department of Agriculture, the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, saying that the GAO used a totally faulty basis from which to calculate it. This letter refutes the very…

I thank the chairman publicly for the work he has done on behalf of farm legislation this year, the extensive hearings on almost all of the titles of the farm bill, working them out in a very intricate way, under some very difficult…

I would like to express to him that I have been involved with the Senator from Colorado for well over 2 years as he fought this battle, and chairing the subcommittee that deals with forestry, we have taken a close look at the amendment and…

I think I and a lot of other Senators are very frustrated at this moment as we have tried to move this issue over the last several weeks. All of us agree that the agricultural community deserves to hear a clear message from the Congress of…

earlier this afternoon, I spoke on the floor of the importance of this Senate dealing with farm policy in a timely manner that sends the appropriate signals to American agriculture of what they can expect in the reform policy that the…

for now nearly 10 months, the U.S. Senate and the Senate Agriculture Committee have been working diligently to craft a new farm bill for our country. We all know that on September 30 of this immediate past year, the old farm bill expired…

S. 1541 brings savings to the program. All of us want to accomplish that. It was the farmer that stood forth as soon as anyone else to say that a balanced budget is critical to our country and that a balanced budget is critical to the…

let me make several comments on an issue that is very important to this country. It is kind of a quiet issue that has not been prominent in the headlines of the Washington Post or the Washington Times; but certainly in my State and every…

But what is clear, in my State of Idaho, is that farmers and their bankers are now sitting down to determine which acres will go into potatoes or sugar beets or barley or wheat or alfalfa crops this coming season. That means that Idaho…

I would like to explain to the Senate that this would allow the Senate to once again pass the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1995, thereby giving the House their opportunity to once again enact the farm bill. Farmers of this country…

I think the Senator and I speak to the same concern, but there is one thing that has gone on this year that it is important the record reflect--the very extensive hearings, well over 6 months of hearings now on every title of the farm…

before the Chair rules, let me explain why I presented this legislation. It is detailed in the sense of the titles of the law of 1949 that it would repeal. Obviously, in hearing from the Secretary of Agriculture, he, by the action of his…

The question is, have not the Democrats used the Social Security trust fund figures in numbers just the way the Republicans are currently using them? We learned----

It is an interesting dialog, Mr. President, because it confirms some of the things that I have been talking about and that have concerned a lot of Members of this Congress as to the rhetoric of the White House and what to believe over the…

I rise in support and as a sponsor of the amendment. It is absolutely crucial that the situation that has arisen over the fueling and defueling of fuels from the nuclear Navy be resolved. This amendment, putting this body on record as…

about an hour ago, I had a phone conversation with the Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh. At that time, he told me that he permanently reassigned Larry Potts, his immediate assistant, Deputy Director, to a new assignment in the FBI pending…