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Larry Craig is working for a sportsmen’s group that wants Congress to lift Endangered Species Act protections from wolves on grounds the prolific predators are hurting big game populations that are coveted by hunters in the region. Craig represents Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and was in Idaho’s Capitol Monday, touting wolf delisting bills now in the U.S. House and Senate. Lawmakers, including Idaho U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, Craig’s successor in Washington, D.C., seek to bypass the Endangered Species Act and lift 36-year-old protections for today’s booming U.S. wolf population.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;">Advocates who accompanied Craig say they have about 50 co-sponsors for federal legislation, including lawmakers from outside Rocky Mountain states, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, where most of the nation’s wolves roam. <b>Craig told the state House Resources and Conservation Committee a new law would return management of wildlife to states, reversing decades of federal government encroachment</b>. Craig believes the Republican landslide in last November’s election increases the likelihood of a congressional solution. “We have the window now of two years,” he said. “I hope we can do it much faster than that.” </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to HR 509 introduced in the U.S. House last year, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 would be amended “to provide that Act shall not apply to the gray wolf.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b>Its co-sponsors include Democrat Jim Matheson of Utah and Republican Mike Simpson of Idaho.</b> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A U.S. Senate measure, whose sponsors include Idaho’s Risch and Mike Crapo, both Republicans, is similar to the House bill. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;">Though Craig was welcomed warmly by committee Chairman Bert Stevenson, R-Rupert, he remains deeply publicity shy following the furor that dogged him during his final 1½ years in the U.S. Senate resulting from his arrest in a sex sting in a Minnesota airport bathroom. He declined an interview request from the Associated Press in the Capitol basement hallway following the meeting. Asked about his involvement with Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, he said only “I’m assisting them on occasion.”&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Craig has a Boise-based lobbying firm called New West Strategies but isn’t registered in Idaho as a lobbyist, according to the Idaho secretary of state.</b> Stevenson agreed to give Craig’s group a letter of support from Idaho House members supporting the federal bills. Starting in 1994, 66 wolves were brought from Canada to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in Montana and Wyoming. The animal’s population hit the original recovery benchmark of 300 animals a decade ago and at least 1,700 wolves now roam parts of six Rocky Mountain states. In addition, more than 4,000 wolves can be found in the wilds of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;But after federal protections for the Rocky Mountains wolves were lifted in 2009, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled last summer the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service couldn’t delist a species in Montana and Idaho but leave out Wyoming’s predator population. The subsequent relisting forced Idaho and Montana to cancel a second year of public wolf hunts, exacerbating tensions among many hunters who fear wolves are eating too many moose, elk and mule dee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;">r. Ryan Benson, a lobbyist for Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife’s “Big Game Forever” effort, has been traveling from state to state to drum up support for the federal legislation.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The list of interested states is growing,” Benson said. “What we’re seeing is that without question, the sportsmen of America care about what’s happened in the West.” Still, attorneys for groups including <b>Defenders of Wildlife that won in Molloy’s court last year have said allowing Congress to decide a question of biological sustainability on the basis of politics would set a dangerous precedent, not just for wolves but for other species </b>protected by federal law. Doug Honnold of Earthjustice in Bozeman couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on Monday.</font></span></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://grist.org/article/2009-07-28-larry-craig-oil-lobbyist/">https://grist.org/article/<b>2009</b>-07-28-larry-craig-oil-lobbyist/</a></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">t</font></font></font></font><span style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">his is an actual thing:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="font-family: " gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" border-width="border-width" border-style="border-style" solid="solid" border-color="border-color" transparent="transparent" rgb="rgb" border-image="border-image" initial="initial">Larry Craig</a><span style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">, former punchline of Idaho, has opened a Washington consulting firm to work as an energy lobbyist.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px auto 0px; word-break: break-word; max-width: 600px;" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; margin-top: 0px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(60, 56, 48); border-image: initial;">New West Strategies LLC</a>&nbsp;offers “strategic advice, guidance, and advocacy” from Craig, the senator was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/larrycraig/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(60, 56, 48); border-image: initial;">arrested in 2007</a>&nbsp;in a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. He’s assisted by former chief of staff Michael O. Ware, a guy who obviously knows how to hitch a ride on a rising star.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px auto 0px; word-break: break-word; max-width: 600px;" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The firm&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; margin-top: 0px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(60, 56, 48); border-image: initial;">touts its affiliation</a>&nbsp;with National Environmental Strategies, a lobbying firm whose clients include the American Gas Association and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">American Petroleum Institute (API),</span> trade groups for the natural gas and oil industries.</b> API’s members include ExxonMobil, which&nbsp;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mobil-climate-change-sceptics-funding" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(60, 56, 48); border-image: initial;">continues to fund climate change denial projects</a>, despite a public promise to do otherwise.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px auto 0px; word-break: break-word; max-width: 600px;" gt="GT" super="Super" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So which is the real rock bottom — serving as a pawn of energy interests in the U.S. Senate, or jumping over the fence to become one of the special interest lobbyists who tell the pawns which way to move?</font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt</font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Idaho: Ex-Senator Craig Becomes a Consultant</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By The Associated Press</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">July 27, 2009</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former Senator Larry E. Craig has opened a consulting firm and said he was focusing on energy issues. Mr. Craig, a Republican of Idaho, served 18 years in the Senate and 10 in the House. He has an office in Eagle, in southwest Idaho, and another in Washington. In January, Mr. Craig formed <b>New West Strategies with his former chief of staff, Mike Ware</b>. Mr. Craig said the firm had four clients, including Premier Technology, a construction management company based in Blackfoot with clients that include the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. In 2007, Mr. Craig was arrested by an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation against men looking for sex with other men at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.</font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">huffpo 12/11</font></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wASHINGTON -- Having left Congress after an embarrassing 2007 arrest, former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has quietly reemerged in Washington as a lobbyist working on behalf of the coal industry. According to his federal filings, Craig has registered to wheedle his former Capitol colleagues on the obscure but critical issue of mine safety.</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It's an issue that Craig's new client,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ohiovalleycoal.com/" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Murray Energy" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.ohiovalleycoal.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">Murray Energy</a>, knows all too well. The largest privately held coal company in the nation, Murray Energy owned a subsidiary that ran the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah, the site of a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.msha.gov/genwal/crandallcanyon.asp" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="tragic cave-in incident" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.msha.gov/genwal/crandallcanyon.asp" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">tragic cave-in incident</a>&nbsp;that took the lives of six miners and later three rescuers. The cave-in occurred in August 2007, just weeks after Craig was arrested for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senator-enters-guilty_n_62015" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="allegedly soliciting sex" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senator-enters-guilty_n_62015" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">allegedly soliciting sex</a>&nbsp;in an airport bathroom.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">
</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">the addition of a heavyweight like Craig to the coal lobby serves as a reminder of just</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-west-virginia-mining_b_534665" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="how difficult" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-west-virginia-mining_b_534665" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">how difficult</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">it can be to pass mine safety reform in the face of industry influence, even in the aftermath of the worst mining disaster in 40 years<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Since 29 miners died in an explosion at the</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/massey-energy-company" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Upper Big Branch mine" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/massey-energy-company" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">Upper Big Branch mine</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">in West Virginia in April 2010, a bill that would further empower the Mine Safety and Health Administration to shut down dangerous mines and punish unsafe operators has languished in Congress. Now that more than a year and a half has passed, the window of opportunity may have already closed for meaningful reform, industry observers say.</span></span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"We knew at the very beginning that the further you get from the [Upper Big Branch] tragedy, the less likely it is to get something passed," says a senior Democratic aide. "The pay-to-play politics eventually comes into play. And that's exactly what happened."</b></font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The status quo may well be what Murray Energy and the coal lobby are hoping for. Since the Crandall Canyon disaster, congressional staffers who work closely on mine safety issues have come to know the firm's tough CEO, Robert Murray, simply as "Mr. Murray," and they consider him and other deep-pocketed coal operators a prime obstacle to stronger mining regulations. </b>A big Republican donor, Murray&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/us/09mine.html?ref=robertemurray" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="feuded publicly" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/us/09mine.html?ref=robertemurray" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">feuded publicly</a>&nbsp;with safety-minded Democrats who called for criminal prosecutions of Crandall Canyon managers after the tragedy. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah says the Crandall Canyon case is "ongoing," although no charges have been filed in more than four years.</font></p></div><div class="pg-placeholder" id="public-good-placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="pgs-dpg-btn" data-pgs-partner-id="verizon-huffpost" data-loaded="true" widget-loading="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Murray Energy has paid Craig's consultancy and lobby shop,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/aboutus.html" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="New West Strategies" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/aboutus.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">New West Strategies</a>, $200,000 this year to work on legislation surrounding mine safety as well as greenhouse gas emissions. </span>When asked for details about the firm's work, Craig's partner and former chief of staff, Michael Ware, said, "I'm not going to talk to you at all." <b>Murray Energy has so far spent nearly $400,000 on lobbying this year</b>, according to the watchdog group&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022123&year=2011" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Center for Responsive Politics" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022123&year=2011" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="7" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">Center for Responsive Politics</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rob Murray, vice president and son to the CEO, declined to talk in detail about Murray Energy's<b> stance</b> on MSHA and mine safety reform. In an email, he said the company was working to "inform lawmakers of practical solutions to improve the working environment in mines," adding that "the overall health and safety of our employees is our number one priority."</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time of the tragedy, Robert Murray blamed the mine collapse at Crandall Canyon on an earthquake -- an assertion challenged by MSHA, which levied more than $1 million in penalties against the mine.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Similarly, officers at Massey Energy, the owner of Upper Big Branch, </span>have attributed that disaster to a&nbsp;<a href="http://wvgazette.com/News/201106031457" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="natural explosion" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wvgazette.com/News/201106031457" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="8" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">natural explosion</a>, contrary to the findings of both an independent investigative panel and a team of MSHA investigators.</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two exhaustive reports produced on Massey have put the blame squarely on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/massey-report_n_864267" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="corporate culture" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/massey-report_n_864267" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="9" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">corporate culture</a>&nbsp;that put profits before workers' well-being</b>. Investigators noted that the company routinely hid safety problems from inspectors and intimidated workers who spoke out about dangerous conditions. Managers went so far as to maintain two sets of safety books -- one that included documented dangers at the mine, and a separate sanitized version for inspectors to see. Alpha Natural Resources, Massey's new owner, has entered into a $210 million settlement over Massey's role in the disaster, though officials have left open the possibility of prosecuting individual Massey officers.</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cynical as it may sound, safety advocates note that the wake of a mining disaster is usually the best opportunity to reform mining law and MSHA, since public attention so rarely turns to such issues. Justin Feldman, worker health and safety advocate at Public Citizen, says he's disappointed but not shocked that nothing legislatively has been done. Feldman says he's actually spoken with congressional aides who wrongly believe a bill was passed after Upper Big Branch.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We don't see any momentum on this issue," says Feldman. "The industry has survived this, in terms of not being subject to new regulations. ... When I talk to Republicans on this, the first they say is, 'Let's wait for the [next] report to come out.'"</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Even piecemeal reforms have proven nearly impossible to get through the GOP-led House</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. For example, Republicans have twice tried to block a new rule aimed at reducing the number of miners who suffer and die from black lung disease</span>. In September House Republicans tried to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/department-of-labor-budget-2012_n_989624" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="scuttle" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/department-of-labor-budget-2012_n_989624" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="10" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">scuttle</a>&nbsp;the rule, which would lower the amount of allowable coal dust in a mine's atmosphere, in a health-and-labor budget bill. <b>And last week, as lawmakers scrambled to avoid a shutdown, Republicans&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/budget-bill-big-coal-miners_n_1154712" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="put a rider" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/budget-bill-big-coal-miners_n_1154712" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="11" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">put a rider</a>&nbsp;in the budget bill that would simply delay implementation of the new rule by eight months, a move that the United Mine Workers of America said could cost lives.</b></font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since Upper Big Branch, MSHA officials have been trying to clear the agency's infamous backlog of safety cases, which&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57335531/msha-conferencing-may-help-cut-violations-backlog/" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="hovered around 70,000" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57335531/msha-conferencing-may-help-cut-violations-backlog/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="12" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">hovered around 70,000</a>&nbsp;as of the end of September. Many mine owners appeal their safety violations simply as a matter of course, allowing them to continue operating as the judicial process drags on. A 2008 congressional report found that Murray Energy, for instance, had enacted a "<a href="http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=9608153&itype=NGPSID&keyword=&qtype=" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="blanket policy" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=9608153&itype=NGPSID&keyword=&qtype=" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="13" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">blanket policy</a>&nbsp;of contesting all MSHA safety violations, regardless of the merits of the contest petition."</font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">D-W.Va</span>.) and Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Shelly Moore Capito (<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">R-W.Va</span>.), some lawmakers have sought to expand MSHA's limited subpoena power and boost civil and criminal penalties on operators who break the law</b>. Those reforms have been kept at bay by the coal industry, which has spent at least $13 million on lobbying this year, and industry-friendly Republicans, who seem loath to impose any regulations on Big Coal.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Earlier this year, an official with the industry group the <b>National Mining Association (NMA),</b> speaking as a guest of the GOP, went so far as to tell lawmakers at a mine safety hearing that the industry should be allowed to&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/05/04/mining-industry-seeks-voluntary-safety-program/" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="simply police itself" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/05/04/mining-industry-seeks-voluntary-safety-program/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="14" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">simply police itself</a>.</span></font></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We're trying to be open-minded about it," NMA spokesman Luke Popovich tells HuffPost, speaking about MSHA reform. "We don't see the need for additional authority. MSHA has only started to use the authority it has that could improve mine safety."</font></p></div><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.56;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Upper Big Branch recedes further, reform advocates say it's doubtful they'll eventually overcome both a powerful lobby and anti-regulatory Republicans. Of course, veterans on the issue aren't exactly surprised to see their efforts fizzle. As Rep. Miller himself&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/08/nation/la-na-coal-mine-safety-20110508" target="hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="said" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb1065ce4b09bbe9a594214" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/08/nation/la-na-coal-mine-safety-20110508" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="15" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;">said</a>&nbsp;earlier this year, "The sad thing is that nothing will happen until the next major disaster."</font></p></div><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig</a></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Lawrence Edwin Craig</b>&nbsp;(born July 20, 1945) is a retired American politician from the state of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho</a>. A&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>, <b>he served 18 years in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a>&nbsp;(1991–2009), preceded by 10 years in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a></b>, representing Idaho's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Idaho's 1st congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1st District</a>&nbsp;(1981–91).<sup id="cite_ref-congress_bio_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-congress_bio-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;His 28 years in Congress rank as the second-longest in Idaho history, trailing only&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Borah" title="William Borah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Borah</a>, who served over 32 years in the Senate. In addition to serving in Congress, Craig has been a member of the Board of Directors of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>&nbsp;since 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;Craig was selected for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council,Idaho" title="Council, Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council, Idaho</a>, Craig was raised on a ranch in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,Idaho" title="Washington County, Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington County</a>. He attended the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Idaho" title="University of Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Idaho</a>, receiving a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a>&nbsp;degree in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political science</a>&nbsp;from the university in 1969, and later briefly attended&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Washington University</a>&nbsp;before returning to Washington County in 1971 to work in his family's ranching business. Following a brief stint in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Army_National_Guard" title="Idaho Army National Guard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Army National Guard</a>, Craig ran for and won a seat in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Senate" title="Idaho Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Senate</a>&nbsp;in 1974, and was re-elected in 1976 and 1978, before his successful first run for Congress to represent&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Idaho's 1st congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho's 1st congressional district</a>&nbsp;in the House of Representatives in 1980. He won reelection four times before running for the U.S. Senate in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_Senate_election_in_Idaho" title="1990 United States Senate election in Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1990</a>, defeating&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_J.Twilegar" title="Ron J. Twilegar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron J. Twilegar</a>&nbsp;in the general election and winning reelection in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_election_in_Idaho" title="1996 United States Senate election in Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1996</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_Senate_election_in_Idaho" title="2002 United States Senate election in Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2002</a>.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On June 11, 2007, Craig was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal" title="Larry Craig scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">arrested for indecent behavior</a>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_toilet" title="Public toilet" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">men's restroom</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%E2%80%93St.Paul_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport</a>; he pleaded guilty to a charge of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorderly_conduct" title="Disorderly conduct" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">disorderly conduct</a>&nbsp;in August 2007 and paid less than $600 in court fines. The arrest remained unknown to the public until the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>-based newspaper&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Call" title="Roll Call" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roll Call</a></i>&nbsp;disclosed it in an article, drawing widespread public attention as well as charges of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy" title="Hypocrisy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hypocrisy</a>&nbsp;against Craig, as he had been an opponent of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" title="LGBT rights in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">LGBT rights in the United States</a>&nbsp;but was accused of homosexual activity.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;Despite stating that he was not and never had been homosexual, Craig announced on September 1, 2007 that he would resign from the Senate, effective September 30, 2007, but later reversed this decision and decided to finish the remainder of his term, although he chose not to run for re-election in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Idaho,2008" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in Idaho, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor and former Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch" title="Jim Risch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Risch</a>, who won the seat in the 2008 election.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;<b>Craig subsequently co-founded the consulting firm New West Strategies and became a lobbyist.</b><sup id="cite_ref-consultant_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-consultant-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Early_life_and_family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and family</span></span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political career</span></font></a></font><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#U.S.Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. Senate</span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Idaho_Hall_of_Fame_induction" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Idaho Hall of Fame induction</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#2007_arrest_and_consequences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2007 arrest and consequences</span></font></a></font><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Post-Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Post-Senate</span></font></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Election_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Election history</span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Further reading</span></font></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></font></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_family">Early life and family</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig was born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council,Idaho" title="Council, Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council, Idaho</a>, the son of Dorothy Lenore (née McCord) and Elvin Oren Craig.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;He grew up on a ranch outside&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midvale,Idaho" title="Midvale, Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Midvale</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,Idaho" title="Washington County, Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington County</a>. In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political science</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Idaho" title="University of Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Idaho</a>. At the University of Idaho, he was student body president and a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Chi" title="Delta Chi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Delta Chi</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity" title="Fraternity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fraternity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;He pursued graduate studies at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Washington University</a>&nbsp;before returning to his family's Midvale ranching business in 1971. Craig was a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Army_National_Guard" title="Idaho Army National Guard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Army National Guard</a>&nbsp;from 1970 to 1972, attaining the rank of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_First_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Private First Class" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Private First Class</a>&nbsp;(E3),<sup id="cite_ref-navyleague_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-navyleague-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;after which he received an honorable discharge.<sup id="cite_ref-idahoaug28_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-idahoaug28-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig married Suzanne Scott in July 1983 and adopted the three children she had from a previous marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;Through his adopted children, Craig has nine grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-Official_Biography_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-Official_Biography-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_career">Political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig was elected to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Senate" title="Idaho Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Senate</a>&nbsp;in 1974 and reelected in 1976 and 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-Official_Biography_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-Official_Biography-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1980, Craig was elected to an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Idaho's 1st Congressional District. He succeeded Republican&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Symms" title="Steve Symms" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve Symms</a>, who was leaving the House to run for election to the Senate against incumbent Democrat&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church" title="Frank Church" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Church</a>. Craig was re-elected four times, serving until 1991. While in the House, he supported President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s push to expand vocational education. Craig was not a major force as a legislator during his time in the House.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Allegations of cocaine use and sex with male teenage&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives Page" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">congressional pages</a>&nbsp;by unnamed congressmen were pursued by investigators and journalists in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;Craig issued a statement denying involvement.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup>&nbsp;Craig stated "Persons who are unmarried as I am, by choice or by circumstance, have always been the subject of innuendos, gossip and false accusations. I think this is despicable."<sup id="cite_ref-idahoaug28_13-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-idahoaug28-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;Craig served on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Standards_of_Official_Conduct" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Ethics Committee</a>. In 1989 Craig was reported to have led an extended effort that pushed for more severe punishment of Representative&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank" title="Barney Frank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barney Frank</a>&nbsp;for his involvement in a gay prostitution scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.Senate">U.S. Senate</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Republican_Senators_urge_Tom_Daschle_to_set_a_date_for_debate_to_establish_a_comprehensive_energy_plan_for_American_families.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></font></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Republican_Senators_urge_Tom_Daschle_to_set_a_date_for_debate_to_establish_a_comprehensive_energy_plan_for_American_families.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig with&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rick Santorum</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Murkowski" title="Frank Murkowski" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Murkowski</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison" title="Kay Bailey Hutchison" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a>&nbsp;in 2001</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig announced his candidacy for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1990" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate elections, 1990" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1990 Senate election</a>&nbsp;for the seat vacated by the retiring&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A.McClure" title="James A. McClure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James A. McClure</a>. Craig defeated Idaho Attorney General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Jones (jurist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Jones</a>&nbsp;in the Republican primary. In the general election he defeated&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a>&nbsp;former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Legislature" title="Idaho Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Legislature</a>&nbsp;member&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_J.Twilegar" title="Ron J. Twilegar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron J. Twilegar</a>&nbsp;with 61 percent of the vote.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1995, Craig formed a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_quartet" title="Barbershop quartet" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">barbershop quartet</a>&nbsp;called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Senators" title="The Singing Senators" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Singing Senators</a>&nbsp;with Senators&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott" title="Trent Lott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trent Lott</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" title="John Ashcroft" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Ashcroft</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jeffords" class="mw-redirect" title="James Jeffords" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Jeffords</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election,1996" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election, 1996" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reelected in 1996</a>, with 57 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Minnick" title="Walt Minnick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walt Minnick</a>. He was reelected again in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election,2002" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election, 2002" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2002 election</a>&nbsp;with 65 percent of the vote, when he spent $3.2 million to defeat&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Blinken" title="Alan Blinken" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alan Blinken</a>.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1999 Craig became sharply critical of U.S. President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Monica Lewinsky scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Monica Lewinsky scandal</a>. Speaking on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NBC</a>'s&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_The_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Meet The Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Meet The Press</a></i>, Craig told&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Russert" title="Tim Russert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tim Russert</a>: "The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy – a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig served as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Policy_Committee_Chairman_of_the_United_States_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Republican Policy Committee chairman</a>&nbsp;from 1997 until 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-congress_bio_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-congress_bio-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;He then became chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Special_Committee_on_Aging" title="United States Senate Special Committee on Aging" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Special Committee on Aging</a>. After the Democrats gained control of the Senate in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election,2006" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election, 2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2006 Congressional election</a>, Craig became the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranking_member" title="Ranking member" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ranking member</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</a>&nbsp;and a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations" title="United States Senate Committee on Appropriations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Appropriations Committee</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Energy_and_Natural_Resources" title="United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Energy and Natural Resources Committee</a>. He served as the ranking member of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee. Amid the controversy surrounding his arrest, in August 2007 Craig temporarily stepped aside as ranking member on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Veterans' Affairs Committee</a>&nbsp;and two subcommittees.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig is a longtime advocate for a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment" title="Balanced budget amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">balanced budget amendment</a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2003, Craig put a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_hold" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret hold" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hold</a>&nbsp;on more than 200&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Air Force</a>&nbsp;promotions in an attempt to pressure the Air Force to station four new&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-130_Hercules" class="mw-redirect" title="C-130 Hercules" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">C-130</a>&nbsp;cargo planes in Idaho, saying he received a commitment from the Air Force almost seven years earlier that the planes would be delivered.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Defense Department</a>&nbsp;officials said the reason the C-130s had not been sent to Idaho was that no new aircraft were being manufactured for the type of transport mission done by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Air_National_Guard" title="Idaho Air National Guard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Idaho Air National Guard</a>&nbsp;unit where Craig wanted the planes delivered.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig supported the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_worker_program" title="Guest worker program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">guest worker program</a>&nbsp;proposed by President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>. In April 2005, Craig tried to amend an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq War</a>&nbsp;supplemental bill with an amendment that would have granted legal status to between 500,000 and one million&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">illegal immigrants</a>&nbsp;in farm work. The amendment failed with 53 votes (60 votes were needed because the amendment was not relevant to the underlying bill).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup>&nbsp;A version of the AgJOBS legislation was included in the Senate-passed immigration reform bill in 2006. Craig, the principal sponsor of AgJOBS, continues to support&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty" title="Amnesty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">amnesty</a>&nbsp;for illegal immigrants who are "trusted workers with a significant work history in American agriculture."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;This position has been sharply criticized by anti-illegal immigration activists.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup>&nbsp;On June 26, 2007, Craig reiterated his support for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Immigration_Reform_Act_of_2007" title="Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007</a>.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In October 2005, Craig suggested that flooded sections of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Orleans</a>&nbsp;should be abandoned after&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a>&nbsp;had hit and was quoted on a Baton Rouge television station as saying that "Fraud is in the culture of Iraqis. I believe that is true in the state of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louisiana</a>&nbsp;as well</b>."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On December 16, 2005, Craig voted against a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloture" title="Cloture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cloture</a>&nbsp;motion filed relative to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="USA PATRIOT Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USA PATRIOT Act</a>; the motion ultimately earned only 52 votes, and so a Democratic&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster" title="Filibuster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">filibuster</a>&nbsp;against extension of the act (due to expire at the end of 2005) was allowed to continue.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;On December 21, 2005, Craig backed a six-month extension of the Act while further negotiations took place.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup>&nbsp;On February 9, 2006, Craig announced an agreement among himself, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House</a>, and fellow Senators&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E.Sununu" title="John E. Sununu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John E. Sununu</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arlen Specter</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski" title="Lisa Murkowski" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lisa Murkowski</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel" title="Chuck Hagel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chuck Hagel</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Durbin</a>&nbsp;to reauthorize the Act.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In 2006, Craig posted to his Senate website<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup>&nbsp;all the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(politics)" title="Earmark (politics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">earmarks</a>&nbsp;he had inserted into federal spending bills since joining the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1998.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Conservative Union</a>&nbsp;rated Craig's 2005 voting record at 96 out of 100 points</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, while the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Democratic_Action" title="Americans for Democratic Action" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Democratic Action</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;rated him at 15 points. Craig supported the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Marriage_Amendment" title="Federal Marriage Amendment" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Federal Marriage Amendment</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which barred extension of rights to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_couple" class="mw-redirect" title="Same-sex couple" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">same-sex couples</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; he voted for cloture on the amendment in both 2004 and 2006, and was a cosponsor in 2008.</span><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;However, in late 2006 he appeared to endorse the right of individual states to create same-sex&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_unions" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil unions" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">civil unions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, but said he would vote "yes" on an Idaho constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages when pressured to clarify his position by the anti-</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">gay rights</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;advocacy group Families for a Better Idaho.</span><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Craig voted against cloture on a 2002 bill which would have extended the federal definition of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime" title="Hate crime" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">hate crimes</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to cover&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation" title="Sexual orientation" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sexual orientation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;This legislation was passed in 2007 in both the House and the Senate as the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Law_Enforcement_Hate_Crimes_Prevention_Act_of_2007" class="mw-redirect" title="Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Craig voted against the measure.</span><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_social_movements" title="LGBT social movements" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">LGBT advocacy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;group the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Human Rights Campaign</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;issued guides to candidates' voting records in 2004, giving Craig a 0 rating.</span><sup id="cite_ref-108thScorecard_39-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-108thScorecard-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prior to the nomination of Idaho&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Idaho" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Idaho" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Kempthorne" title="Dirk Kempthorne" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dirk Kempthorne</a>, Craig was mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Norton" title="Gale Norton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gale Norton</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Secretary of the Interior</a>&nbsp;in March 2006.</span><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2012, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission" title="Federal Election Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federal Election Commission</a>&nbsp;sued Craig for repayment of $217,000 of campaign funds which he used to pay for his defense in his criminal case. In an August 2012 filing, Craig's lawyer Andrew Herman wrote "Not only was the trip itself constitutionally required, but Senate rules sanction reimbursement for any cost relating to a senator's use of a bathroom while on official travel"; the filing cited an FEC ruling that allowed former Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kolbe" title="Jim Kolbe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Kolbe</a>&nbsp;to use campaign funds for his legal defense in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Foley scandal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup>&nbsp;A federal court in Washington, D.C. found him liable for the full sum, and on March 4, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that judgment.</font></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Appropriations</font></font><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies</font></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Homeland Security</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies</font></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Environment and Public Works</font></font><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection</font></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health</font></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</font></font><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy</font></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Water and Power</font></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</font></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Committee on Aging</font></font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Idaho_Hall_of_Fame_induction">Idaho Hall of Fame induction</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2007, the Idaho Hall of Fame Association inducted Larry Craig into the Idaho Hall of Fame, despite his arrest and guilty plea. He had been picked in March 2007, months before the arrest.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2014, Craig was the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Republican_Party" title="Idaho Republican Party" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Idaho Republican Party</a>&nbsp;financial chair</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2007_arrest_and_consequences">2007 arrest and consequences</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal" title="Larry Craig scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Larry Craig scandal</a></font></font></div><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On June 11, 2007, Craig was arrested at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul_International_Airport" title="Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewd_conduct" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewd conduct" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">lewd conduct</a>&nbsp;in a men's restroom,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup>&nbsp;where he was accused of soliciting a male undercover police officer for sexual activity.<sup id="cite_ref-policeRpt_45-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-policeRpt-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;During the resulting interview with the arresting officer, Craig insisted upon his innocence, disputing the officer's version of the event by stating that he merely had a "wide stance" (Craig states that he said he was a "wide guy"<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup>) and that he had been picking up a piece of paper from the floor.<sup id="cite_ref-policeRpt_45-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#cite_note-policeRpt-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a>...</sup></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><sup class="reference" style="line-height: 1; 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Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday,&nbsp;December 11, </a><a name="top" style="outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1997</a><a name="top" style="outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; Page A37</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="top" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The difficulty delegates to the global warming conference in Kyoto encountered in reaching agreement on reducing greenhouse gases is likely to pale beside the trouble Republicans have promised the Clinton administration when it seeks ratification of the newly negotiated international treaty.</font></span></a></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As finalized early this morning, Japanese time, the Kyoto accord calls for industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse emissions by 6 percent to 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. It left aside until at least next year the contentious issue of how much developing countries would be required to cut their own emissions.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hours before the final agreement was reached, however, key Senate Republicans declared the accord "dead on arrival," and a leading Democratic supporter urged that the Senate delay a vote in light of its bleak prospects.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b style="">Sen. Larry E. Craig (Idaho), head of the Republican Policy Committee,&nbsp;</b>told reporters here that the treaty is "designed to give some nations a free ride, it is designed to raise energy prices in the United States and it is <b>desigened [sic] to perpetuate a new U.N. bureaucracy to manage global resource allocation."</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It also would undermine the recent reform of farm programs and threaten U.S. agricultural production, warned Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rejecting Democratic proposals to postpone consideration of the accord, Craig called on President Clinton to "promptly submit the treaty and allow the Senate to kill it."</b>&nbsp;Even if the administration delayed submitting it for ratification -- perhaps until a developing countries treaty can be reached next year -- Craig said he expects the Senate will act on its own to declare its opposition to the pact, serving notice in advance that the United States will not ratify it. Ratification requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The comments of Craig and other Republican leaders were made at a news conference called yesterday to denounce what they had heard about the emerging agreement. Judging from what they had learned from congressional observers in Kyoto, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) said, "It's dead on arrival."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Kyoto, a leading Democratic member of the observer delegation agreed that the treaty was not acceptable to the Senate in its current form. "What we have here is not ratifiable in the Senate in my judgment," Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.)</span>&nbsp;said. According to aides in Washington, Kerry wanted Clinton to sign the deal but hold off submission of it until follow-on conferences scheduled for Bonn in June and Buenos Aires in November.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At those meetings, the next step in the process of designing an international strategy to combat global warming, international delegates will again discuss more active participation by developing countries, which was essentially removed from the pact during the final hours of deliberation in Kyoto because of objections from China and India.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. opponents of a global warming pact, including the Republicans and major American industries, especially coal, oil, steel and electric power producers, have argued that a deal that requires industry in this country to go through the expensive process of significantly cutting emissions of greenhouse gases was unfair unless the same requirements applied to all nations.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The treaty approved by consensus in Kyoto will be available for signature at United Nations headquarters in New York beginning March 15. Once a country signs, it has a year to ratify the pact. Technically, the administration could wait years before acting on the pact. Countries that do not sign during the allotted period may still become parties to the treaty at any point in the future.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kerry said a delay in formal approval of the treaty need not impede compliance with its goals, noting that the United States often has gone along with treaties before they were ratified.</b>&nbsp;He and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who also supports the treaty, said in Kyoto that they are confident strong U.S. public support for action on global warming will help them eventually push the pact through the Senate.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The people are ahead of the politicians on this one," Lieberman said.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kalee Kreider, director of Greenpeace's U.S. climate change campaign, said in Kyoto that environmental groups in the United States would begin an extensive grass-roots campaign to increase public support for the accord</span>. She said the groups have been focusing their effort on government officials in the time leading up to the Kyoto conference, and "we haven't done as much public education as we should have."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kreider said U.S. opponents of the treaty have greatly overstated its economic effect and insisted that a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign mounted this fall by industries opposed to emissions cuts failed to weaken public support for fighting global warming.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans said yesterday they were adamantly opposed to any delay in submitting the treaty for ratification, warning they would object to any steps to implement the treaty "piecemeal," as Craig put it, without Senate approval.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although yesterday's news that the treaty was nearing agreement in Kyoto brought a new round of Senate denunciations, the global warming pact was in trouble from the start.&nbsp;<b>During the summer, the Senate voted 95 to 0 to assert its opposition to any treaty that endangers the U.S. economy and spares developing countries from constraints imposed on developed nations.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) wrote Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), head of the Senate observer group, saying the treaty was falling short of these conditions and declaring the Senate "will not ratify a flawed climate change treaty."</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He criticized Vice President Gore, who in a Kyoto speech on Monday promised increased flexibility on the part of U.S. negotiators, saying Gore's intervention "further clouded an already murky situation" and "added to the bleak prospects for Senate ratification."</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"If they [the administration] won't take our advice, we won't give our consent," said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)</b>. Few on either side of the already rancorous debate over the pact could remember many major treaties -- even going back to bitter Cold War-era arguments over arms control -- that headed toward the Senate in such tattered shape.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One major reason is that, as Craig put it yesterday, the issue carries "so much domestic political baggage," and Republicans lost no time in rummaging through the contents.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It seems that Clinton and Gore are "rushing to reach a deal at any cost," Craig asserted.&nbsp;</b>In a preview of political debates to come, Craig said that if the treaty is signed on behalf of the United States, "it will be the first time in history that an American president has allowed foreign interests to control and limit the growth of the U.S. economy."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anticipating the fierce criticism from Republicans, Clinton last night told a Democratic fund-raising dinner in New York that technological advances can mean a cleaner environment without economic damage. "We will fulfill our moral obligation to leave our children and our grandchildren a planet upon which they can live in peace with one another because of the resources that are left."</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff writer Peter Baker in New York contributed to this report. Dewar reported from Washington, Sullivan from Kyoto.</font></font></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">rfk 2:</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">

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</font>&nbsp;larry craig: <cite><span style="font-style: normal;">www.waterplanet.ws/transitions/tr9509.pdf&nbsp; boise cascade</span>

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</cite></font></p><p style=""><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/look-who-larry-craig-playing-footsie-now"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.desmogblog.com/look-who-larry-craig-playing-footsie-now</font></a></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">refs</font></p><p style=""><a href="https://grist.org/article/2009-07-28-larry-craig-oil-lobbyist/"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://grist.org/article/2009-07-28-larry-craig-oil-lobbyist/</font></a></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">t<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">his is an actual thing:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Larry Craig</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, former punchline of Idaho, has opened a W<b>ashington consulting firm to work as an energy lobbyist.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">New West Strategies LLC</a>&nbsp;offers “strategic advice, guidance, and advocacy” from Craig, the senator was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/larrycraig/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">arrested in 2007</a>&nbsp;in a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. He’s assisted by former chief of staff Michael O. Ware, a guy who obviously knows how to hitch a ride on a rising star.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The firm&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.newweststrategiesllc.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">touts its affiliation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;with National Environmental Strategies, a lobbying firm whose clients include the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Gas Association and American Petroleum Institute (API),</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">trade groups for the natural gas and oil industries. API’s members include ExxonMobil, which&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mobil-climate-change-sceptics-funding" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">continues to fund climate change denial projects</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, despite a public promise to do otherwise.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So which is the real rock bottom — serving as a pawn of energy interests in the U.S. Senate, or jumping over the fence to become one of the special interest lobbyists who tell the pawns which way to move?</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>New West Strategies, LLC</strong> (NWS) was founded in 2009 by Senator Larry E. Craig and Michael O. Ware.</span> Senator Craig and Mr. Ware have combined over sixty years of experience in federal and state government service and politics. This experience brings to NWS a thorough understanding of the intricacies involved in advocating for their clients' and achieving their clients goals, with experience and involvement in arenas such as;</font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States Senate - 18 years, Senator Larry Craig (Ret)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States House of Representatives - 10 years, Senator Larry Craig (Ret)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate House Appropriations Committee - Sub-Committee Chairman - Senator Craig (Ret)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Energy Committee - Senior Member - Senator Craig (Ret)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Veterans Affairs Committee - Chairman-Senator Craig (Ret)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal Energy Administration - Director, House Liaison - Mr. Ware</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aide - United States House of Representatives - Mr. Ware</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House and Senate Republican Steering Committees - Mr. Ware</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Private Industry - Director, Congressional Affairs/Nat. Asso. of Manufacturers and Manager, Congressional Affairs/Conoco - Mr. Ware</font></li>

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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The expertise and guidance NWS offers its clients is both comprehensive and extensive. Together, the Principals, Senator Larry Craig and Mr. Michael Ware, bring a partnership of vast experience and success to New West Strategies. The NWS portfolio is enhanced by its affiliation with National Environmental Strategies (NES), an environmental consulting firm. For almost 20 years, NES has provided counsel on a broad range of federal environmental, regulatory and legislative issues. Their counsel has been within the White House, OMB, EPA, DOE, Interior and other related agencies and bureaus. Clients of NWS have direct access to these advocacy specialists should the need arise. This relationship, along with the range of experience of Senator Craig and Mr. Ware, provides our clients a complete package of resources at all levels of government: Federal, State, Executive and Legislative branches nationwide.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Larry Edwin Craig</b> was the senior <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" class="mw-redirect">United States Senator</a> from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Idaho" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Idaho">Idaho</a> (<a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/pagecgd109_id2.gif" class="external text" title="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/pagecgd109_id2.gif" rel="nofollow">map</a>). He is a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a> and was first elected to the Senate in 1990 and retired in 2008.</font></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Record_and_controversies"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Record and controversies</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Iraq_War"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Iraq War</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Environmental_record"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Environmental record</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Bio"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Bio</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Arrest_for_lewd_behavior"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Arrest for lewd behavior</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Repercussions_of_the_arrest"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Repercussions of the arrest</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Resignation"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Resignation</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Possible_reconsideration_of_resignation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Possible reconsideration of resignation</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Surprise_return_to_the_hill"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Surprise return to the hill</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Will_stay_until_court_ruling"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Will stay until court ruling</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Will_finish_out_term"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Will finish out term</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Republican_leadership_backed_off_earmark_threats"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Republican leadership backed off earmark threats</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Admonished_by_Ethics_Committee_Colleagues_for_Conduct"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Admonished by Ethics Committee Colleagues for Conduct</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Court_Ruling"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Court Ruling</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Retirement"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Retirement</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Money_in_politics"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Money in politics</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Committees_and_Affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees and Affiliations</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress_.282007-2008.29"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Coalitions_and_Caucuses"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Coalitions and Caucuses</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Boards_and_Other_Affiliatons"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Boards and Other Affiliatons</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#More_Background_Data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">More Background Data</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Contact"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Articles_and_Resources"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and Resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Resources</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">Local blogs and discussion sites</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Sources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">Articles</span></font></a></li>

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<h2 style=""><a name="Record_and_controversies" id="Record_and_controversies"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Record and controversies</font></span></a></h2>

<div style="margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Record_and_controversies" id="Record_and_controversies"><span>General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's </span></a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Larry Craig voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</font></div>

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<h3 style=""><a name="Iraq_War" id="Iraq_War"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Iraq War</font></span></a></h3>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Iraq_War" id="Iraq_War">Craig voted for the </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq" class="mw-redirect">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq</a> in Oct. 2002.</font></p>

<div style="margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;"><span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Senate_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War">U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War</a>.</font></span></div>

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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Environmental_record" id="Environmental_record">For more information on environmental legislation, see the </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style="">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a></font>

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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Bio" id="Bio">Craig was born July 20, 1945 in Idaho, where he was raised and educated, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Idaho in 1969. He was elected to the </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_State_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:Idaho State Senate">Idaho State Senate</a> in 1974. By this time he was also a farmer and rancher.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was a member of the Idaho State Senate until 1980, when he was elected to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">U.S. House of Representatives</a>, of which he was a member from 1981 until 1991. During his tenure as a member of the House of Representatives, he strongly supported the Balanced Budget Amendment and President Reagan's push to expand vocational education.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig's Senate biography states, "A forceful advocate for common sense, conservative solutions to our nation's problems, Senator Craig has emerged as a leader in the battle for the Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, limited taxation, private property rights, and greater accountability in government. He has been recognized by national groups including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste" title="Citizens Against Government Waste">Citizens Against Government Waste</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Watchdogs_of_the_Treasury&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Watchdogs of the Treasury (page does not exist)">Watchdogs of the Treasury</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union_Foundation" title="National Taxpayers Union Foundation" class="mw-redirect">National Taxpayers Union Foundation</a> for his votes to cut spending and protect the taxpayer."<a href="http://craig.senate.gov/" class="external autonumber" title="http://craig.senate.gov" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As a Westerner and a former rancher, Senator Craig plays a leading role in the formation of natural resource and energy policies, and he has gained a national reputation as a stalwart against environmental extremism. He is also one of America's foremost defenders of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."<a href="http://craig.senate.gov/" class="external autonumber" title="http://craig.senate.gov" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></font>

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<h3 style=""><a name="Arrest_for_lewd_behavior" id="Arrest_for_lewd_behavior"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arrest for lewd behavior</font></span></a></h3>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Arrest_for_lewd_behavior" id="Arrest_for_lewd_behavior"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On August 27, 2007, a report by Roll Call revealed that Senator Craig had been arrested in June of that year for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom. On August 8, Craig pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. He paid over $500 in fines and was given one year of probation beginning August </span>8.</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A spokesman for Craig commented that the incident was a simple “he said/he said misunderstanding.”<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June, according to a plainclothes police officer, Craig sought to engage in lewd conduct with him in a men's public restroom. In his report, the officer wrote, "At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig attributed the incident to a misunderstanding stating in the report that he had "a wide stance when going to the bathroom."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></font>

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<h4 style=""><a name="Repercussions_of_the_arrest" id="Repercussions_of_the_arrest"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Repercussions of the arrest</font></span></a></h4>

<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Repercussions_of_the_arrest" id="Repercussions_of_the_arrest">After news of his June arrest became public on August 27, Craig issued a statement saying that he regretted the guilty plea: "At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct. I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pleaded guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> In a press conference on August 28, Craig stated that he only pleaded guilty because he wanted to keep the story quiet so as to avoid adding to what he called the <i>Idaho Statesman'</i>s "witch hunt." He also stated, "Let me be clear: I am not gay. I never have been gay."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <i>Idaho Statesman</i> had been researching allegations of Craig's behavior for months but did not publish until the <i>Roll Call</i> article appeared. Craig referred to "vicious attacks" by the <i>Statesman</i>, during his press conference on August 28th.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Craig also resigned his post as a Senate liaison (an organizing and fundraising position) for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>'s presidential campaign the day the story broke.</b> Romney communications director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Matt_Rhoades&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matt Rhoades (page does not exist)">Matt Rhoades</a> stated, "Senator Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On August 28, Senate Republican leaders issued a joint statement, saying none of them had been aware of Craig's legal trouble until August 27, the day the story hit the newspapers. They also called for the ethics committee to investigate the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a></sup> Minority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-Ky.), Minority Whip <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trent_Lott" title="Trent Lott">Trent Lott</a> (R-Miss.) and three other GOP leaders wrote,</font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"This is a serious matter. Due to the reported and disputed circumstances, and the legal resolution of this serious case, we will recommend that Senator Craig's incident be reported to the Senate Ethics Committee for its review. In the meantime, leadership is examining other aspects of the case to determine if additional action is required."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On August 29, Craig agreed to step down from his committee positions during the investigation of his June arrest, including his position as the top Republican on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Veterans%27_Affairs_Committee" title="Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee" class="mw-redirect">Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A statement from the GOP leadership read, “Senator Larry Craig has agreed to comply with Leadership’s request that he temporarily step down as the top Republican on the Veteran Affairs Committee, [Senate] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_the_Interior" title="Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior" class="mw-redirect">Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior</a>, and [Senate] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Energy_and_Natural_Resources_Subcommittee_on_Public_Lands_and_Forests" title="Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests" class="mw-redirect">Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests</a>. This is not a decision we take lightly but we believe this is in the best interest of the Senate until this situation is resolved by the Ethics Committee.”<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a></sup></font>

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<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Resignation" id="Resignation">On September 1, 2007, Sen. Larry Craig announced that he would resign effective September 30. Craig stated "I am proud of my record and accomplishments," though continued that he could not continue serving without being a "distraction." Republican Governor Butch Otter had the power to appoint a replacement to serve the remainder of Craig's term. Former Governor Jim Risch (R) and Rep. </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Simpson" title="Mike Simpson">Mike Simpson</a> (R-Idaho) were both considered possible replacements.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a></sup></font></p>

<h5 style=""><a name="Possible_reconsideration_of_resignation" id="Possible_reconsideration_of_resignation"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Possible reconsideration of resignation</font></span></a></h5>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Possible_reconsideration_of_resignation" id="Possible_reconsideration_of_resignation"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On September 4, 2007, Sen. Larry Craig reconsidered his decision to resign.</span> "The senator is examining a challenge to his guilty plea in Minnesota court that could alter his plans to step down," Craig spokesman Sidney Smith told the Associated Press. Although the decision was still up in the air, the intense coverage that Craig's arrest received led many to believe that his continued presence would be a distraction for Republican leaders. </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a></font>

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<h5 style=""><a name="Surprise_return_to_the_hill" id="Surprise_return_to_the_hill"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Surprise return to the hill</font></span></a></h5>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Surprise_return_to_the_hill" id="Surprise_return_to_the_hill"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen. Larry Craig made an unexpected return to the Capitol 12 days before his likely resignation. He has vowed to reverse an Aug. 8 guilty plea after the gay sex sting arrest.&nbsp; Craig also dismissed assumptions that his return meant that he would not stick with his planned resignation date. “He is here representing Idaho, working on transition, and meeting with his legal team,”</span> Craig spokesman Dan Whiting said. </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a></font>

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<h5 style=""><a name="Will_stay_until_court_ruling" id="Will_stay_until_court_ruling"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will stay until court ruling</font></span></a></h5>

<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Will_stay_until_court_ruling" id="Will_stay_until_court_ruling">On September 26, 2007 Senator Larry Craig began his attempt to withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom. Hennepin County District Judge Charles A. Porter reacted skeptically to the bid and said that he would not rule on Craig’s request until the next week. Craig also softened his pledge to resign by the end of September if the case was not resolved, announcing that he would remain in office </a><a href="http://craig.senate.gov/releases/pr092607a.cfm" class="external text" title="http://craig.senate.gov/releases/pr092607a.cfm" rel="nofollow">“for now.”</a> Porter noted that Craig admitted in the August guilty plea that his behavior constituted a crime. Craig’s attorney, Billy Martin, argued that Craig did not consult a lawyer before making the plea. Martin argued that Craig’s actions were only “innocuous’ and that no contact rose to the level of disorderly contact. If Porter accepted the plea withdrawal and scheduled a trial on the original charges, Craig would fight the criminal charges and a Senate ethics investigation. Craig said that he would not seek reelection in 2008 regardless of the outcome of the criminal case.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a></sup></font>

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<h5 style=""><a name="Will_finish_out_term" id="Will_finish_out_term"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will finish out term</font></span></a></h5>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Will_finish_out_term" id="Will_finish_out_term">Hours after a Minnesota judge denied Craig’s bid to withdraw a guilty plea in the bathroom sex sting scandal he said on October 4, 2007 that he would finish his full term before retiring. “As I continued to work for Idaho over the past three weeks here in the Senate, I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively,” said Craig in a statement, and he would try to “clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee — something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate.”</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-16" title="">[17]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Judge Charles Porter of Minnesota’s Hennepin County court rejected Craig’s argument to withdraw the guilty plea in a 27-page order. Porter wrote that Craig’s admission of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport bathroom “accurate, voluntary and intelligent, the conviction is supported by the evidence.” <sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig said he is examining his options and fellow Idaho Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Crapo" title="Mike Crapo">Mike Crapo</a> (R) said he believed Craig planned to appeal the case. <sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a></sup></font>

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<h5 style=""><a name="Republican_leadership_backed_off_earmark_threats" id="Republican_leadership_backed_off_earmark_threats"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican leadership backed off earmark threats</font></span></a></h5>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Republican_leadership_backed_off_earmark_threats" id="Republican_leadership_backed_off_earmark_threats"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Senate Republicans backed off from pressuring Craig to resign his seat, potentially allowing him to last long enough in Congress to save his career.</span> Republican leaders chose not to threaten Craig by stripping over 20 spending projects he sponsored. Craig had argued that the projects showed his presence in the senate was valuable to his constituents. “Right now we are very much working to keep everything in place, and I’m pleased about the progress” Craig said about the millions of dollars in earmarks.</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-19" title="">[20]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Although pressured to resign earlier in the scandal, ranking Appropriations Committee member Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thad_Cochran" title="Thad Cochran">Thad Cochran</a> (R-Miss.) said, of Craig, "He’ll be treated like all senators." Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Bennett" title="Bob Bennett">Bob Bennett</a> (R-Utah) said "The leadership is going to leave it up to the Ethics Committee."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-20" title="">[21]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Craig’s name was attached to 84 earmarks in different annual spending bills and was the only sponsor of 22 projects. Seven of the projects, worth over $7 million, were in legislation crafted by the Appropriations Interior Subcommittee as Craig was the ranking Republican member. Bennet, a fellow subcommittee member, said "Why punish the state of Idaho if they have a perfectly legitimate project which their Senator has called to our attention?" <sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-21" title="">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-22" title="">[23]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Other than threatening Craig’s earmarks, little else could be done by Republican leaders to force his early retirement. A Republican aide said a lawmaker must resign a committee leadership position only if they are indicted for a felony, although Craig’s crime did not rise to that level. Leaders could call for the Senate to vote on Craig’s expulsion, but that would require 67 senators voting in favor. The aide said Craig’s misdemeanor crime did not rise to a grave enough level to reach such a high threshold. <sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-23" title="">[24]</a></sup></font>

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<h4 style=""><a name="Admonished_by_Ethics_Committee_Colleagues_for_Conduct" id="Admonished_by_Ethics_Committee_Colleagues_for_Conduct"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Admonished by Ethics Committee Colleagues for Conduct</font></span></a></h4>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Admonished_by_Ethics_Committee_Colleagues_for_Conduct" id="Admonished_by_Ethics_Committee_Colleagues_for_Conduct">The Senate Ethics Committee has publically admonished Craig as a result of his arrest and guilty plea last summer to inappropriate conduct in a men's bathroom in the Minneapolis airport. Colleagues expressed their disdain for the Senator's actions after the arrest and the impropriety of attempting to evade the legal consequences of his actions by withdrawing his guilty plea. Committee members also questioned the obscure transfer of $200,000 worth of funds from Craig's campaign money to help pay legal fees and denouncing it as unethical.</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-24" title="">[25]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Committee administered its admonition to reflect the poor image that the Senate has suffered as a result of the scandal, and accused Craig of attemping to use his Senatorial status to receive special or favorable treatment, but did not take any further action beyond a public rebuke. Since the scandal, and numerous calls for Craig's resignation, the Senator has tried to return to serving in some semblance of normalcy with little avail.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-25" title="">[26]</a></sup></font>

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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Court_Ruling" id="Court_Ruling">A three judge panel in Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in the disorderly conduct conduct case against him on Dec. 9, 2008. </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-26" title="">[27]</a></font>

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<h4 style=""><a name="Retirement" id="Retirement"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Retirement</font></span></a></h4>

<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a name="Retirement" id="Retirement">Craig did not file for reelection by Idaho's March 22, 2008 deadline. As a result, Craig's three-term career in the U.S. Senate will apparently come to a halt at the end of the </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=110th_Congress" title="110th Congress" class="mw-redirect">110th Congress</a>. Seven Republicans and one Democrat are seeking the seat in November.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Young_2-21_27-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Craig#cite_note-Young_2-21-27" title="">[28]</a></sup></font>

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<h2 style=""><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Money in politics</font></span></a></h2>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00002091&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata></font></p>

<table class="prettytable" style=""><tbody><tr><th colspan="3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links to more campaign contribution information for Larry Craig

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</font></th></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fundraising profile:</font></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2006 election cycle</font></a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Career totals</font></a></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top contributors by organization/corporation:</font></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2006 election cycle</font></a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Career totals</font></a></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top contributors by industry:</font></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2006 election cycle</font></a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00002091" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Career totals</font></a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics"> </a><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Craig%2C+Larry" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Craig%2C+Larry" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Larry Craig</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00002091" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Larry Craig</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00002091" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00002091" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Larry Craig</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li></ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress.282007-2008.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress.282007-2008.29"> </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs">Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs</a> - Ranking Member</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming</span>, Oversight and Children's Health Protection</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Superfund and Environmental Health</span></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Water and Power</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations" title="Senate Committee on Appropriations">Senate Committee on Appropriations</a>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Homeland Security</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Military Contruction and Veterans Affairs</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29"> </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Special_Committee_on_Aging" title="Senate Special Committee on Aging">Senate Special Committee on Aging</a></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations" title="Senate Committee on Appropriations">Senate Committee on Appropriations</a>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Agriculture Rural Development and Related Agencies</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy and Water</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Homeland Security</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Interior</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests - Chair</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Water and Power</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs">Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs</a> - Chair</font></li>

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<h3 style=""><a name="Coalitions_and_Caucuses" id="Coalitions_and_Caucuses"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coalitions and Caucuses</font></span></a></h3>

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<li><a name="Coalitions_and_Caucuses" id="Coalitions_and_Caucuses"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1997 until 2003.</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Western States Senate Coalition</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Co-Chairman of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Coalitions_and_Caucuses" id="Coalitions_and_Caucuses">Co-founder and co-chair, </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congressional_Property_Rights_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congressional Property Rights Coalition (page does not exist)">Congressional Property Rights Coalition</a></font></li>

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<h3 style=""><a name="Boards_and_Other_Affiliatons" id="Boards_and_Other_Affiliatons"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boards and Other Affiliatons</font></span></a></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Boards_and_Other_Affiliatons" id="Boards_and_Other_Affiliatons">Advisory board of </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Wilderness_Institute" title="National Wilderness Institute">National Wilderness Institute</a>, an organization that claims to be the "voice of reason on the environment." NWI is dedicated to weakening the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act" title="Endangered Species Act">Endangered Species Act</a> and other environmental protections. <a href="http://www.nwi.org/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nwi.org/" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></span></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association</a>.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Advisory Board member of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Defenders_of_Property_Rights" title="Defenders of Property Rights">Defenders of Property Rights</a></span><a href="http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.yourpropertyrights.org" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>]</font></li>

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<p style=""><a name="More_Background_Data" id="More_Background_Data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></a></p>

<h2 style=""><a name="More_Background_Data" id="More_Background_Data"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More Background Data</font></span></a></h2>

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<li style=" list-style: none;"><a name="More_Background_Data" id="More_Background_Data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="More_Background_Data" id="More_Background_Data"> </a><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0241103" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0241103" rel="nofollow">Background information on Larry Craig from Project Vote Smart</a></font></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=S0241103" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=S0241103" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Interest group scorecard ratings for Larry Craig from Project Vote Smart</font></a></li>

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<li><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c000858" class="external text" title="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c000858" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Voting record for Larry Craig from the Washington Post database</font></a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=IDSR&site=congressmerge" class="external text" title="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=IDSR&site=congressmerge" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Information on Larry Craig from Congress Merge</font></a></li></ul>

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<h2 style=""><a name="Contact" id="Contact"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></span></a></h2>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Contact" id="Contact"><b>DC Office:</b>

520 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-1205

Phone:202-224-2752

Fax:202-228-1067

</a><a href="http://craig.senate.gov/fp.htm?autoemail.htm" class="external text" title="http://craig.senate.gov/fp.htm?autoemail.htm" rel="nofollow">Web Email</a>

<a href="http://craig.senate.gov/" class="external text" title="http://craig.senate.gov" rel="nofollow">Website</a>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Boise:</b>

225 North Ninth Street, Suite 530

Boise, ID 83702

Phone: 208-342-7985

Fax: 208-343-2458

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Coeur d'Alene:</b>

Harbor Plaza

610 Hubbard, Suite 121

Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814

Phone: 208-667-6130

Fax: 208-765-1743

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Idaho Falls:</b>

490 Memorial Drive, Suite 101

Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Phone: 208-523-5541

Fax: 208-522-0135

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Lewiston:</b>

313 D Street, Suite 106

Lewiston, ID 83501

Phone: 208-743-0792

Fax: 208-746-7275

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Pocatello:</b>

801 East Sherman Street, Room 193

Pocatello, ID 83201

Phone: 208-236-6817

Fax: 208-236-6820

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>District Office- Twin Falls:</b>

560 Filer Avenue, Suite A

Twin Falls, ID 83301

Phone: 208-734-6780

Fax: 208-734-3905
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<h2 style=""><a name="Articles_and_Resources" id="Articles_and_Resources"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Articles and Resources</font></span></a></h2>

<h3 style=""><a name="Resources" id="Resources"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resources</font></span></a></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Resources" id="Resources"> </a><a href="http://craig.senate.gov/" class="external text" title="http://craig.senate.gov/" rel="nofollow">Official website</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000858" class="external text" title="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000858" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Congressional Biography</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Larry%20Craig%22" class="external text" title="http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Larry%20Craig%22" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Technorati Search: Larry Craig</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Larry+Craig%22&btnG=Search+News" class="external text" title="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Larry+Craig%22&btnG=Search+News" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Google News Search: Larry Craig</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22Larry+Craig%22&x=wrt" class="external text" title="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22Larry+Craig%22&x=wrt" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Yahoo! News Search: Larry Craig</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7398" class="external text" title="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7398" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Power Trips: How much did Larry Craig travel?</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?tab=stats&id=300029" class="external text" title="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?tab=stats&id=300029" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GovTrack Statistics: Larry Craig</font></a></li>

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<h3 style=""><a name="Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" id="Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Local blogs and discussion sites</font></span></a></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" id="Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites"> </a><a href="http://f-words.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://f-words.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" style="">f-words</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.redstaterebels.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.redstaterebels.com" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Red State Rebels</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.newwest.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.newwest.net/" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">NewWest.net -- A Refreshing, new kind of journalism.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.ridenbaugh.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.ridenbaugh.com" rel="nofollow" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" color="#000000">Ridenbaugh Press</font></a></li>

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<div class="views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Craig (Board Member)</font></span></div>

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<div class="views-field-field-employer-value"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><label class="views-label-field-employer-value"> Employer: </label><span class="field-content">Former United States Representative and Senator (R – ID)</span></font></div>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Craig served as a Member of Congress from 1981 to 2009. Born in Council, Idaho in 1945, Craig served in the Idaho National Guard from 1970-1972. He began his political career by serving as a Republican Idaho State Senator beginning in 1974. After serving three terms in the state senate, Craig was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980. He then went on to serve ten years in the House and 18 years in the Senate. Craig’s political career was derailed when his 2007 arrest for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom became national news. He initially said he would resign, but later decided to serve out the remainder of his term. While serving in the Senate, Craig was one of the gun lobby’s most important allies, shepherding numerous pieces of NRA-backed legislation into law. In 2006, he received the NRA Institute for Legislative Action’s highest honor. Chris Cox, the executive director of NRA-ILA, called Craig an “<a href="http://www.nraila.org/Multimedia/MMPlayer_Set.aspx?id=75" target="_blank">eloquent and fearless champion of the Second Amendment</a>.”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2011, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/01/larry-craig-returns-to-congress-lobbies-for-wolf-de-listing/" target="blank">Craig lobbied Congress to remove the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act</a>.</span> The former U.S. Senator’s client, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, wanted the gray wolf de-listed because of concern that a recovered wolf population would eat big game animals prized by hunters. Once common in throughout North America, <a href="http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/wolf,gray.php" target="_blank">the gray wolf is now extinct in all but a few locations in the United States</a>.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2009, New West Strategies, a lobbying firm co-founded by Craig, <a href="http://www.corrections.com/news/article/22514-counties-hire-craig-s-firm-to-woo-federal-prison" target="_blank">lobbied the federal government on behalf of two Idaho counties who <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">wanted a federal prison to be constructed within their borders</span></a>. Representatives of the counties cancelled the $5,000-per-month lobbying contract after Craig’s firm failed to secure funding in the federal budget for the project.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an August 2007 letter to a constituent who asked about the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy concerning homosexuality, Craig wrote, “<a href="http://pageoneq.com/news/2007/craigdadt082807.html" target="_blank">It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals</a>.”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2007, Craig, a married man, was arrested in a Minneapolis airport bathroom and charged with lewd conduct after an undercover male police officer accused him of making sexual advances. Craig later pled guilty to disorderly conduct. The <i>Idaho Statesman</i> published a comprehensive investigative report alleging that Craig engaged in sex acts with men for decades. <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2007/12/02/226703/more-gay-men-describe-sexual-encounters.html#storylink=misearch" target="_blank">A number of men</a> gave accounts of sexual encounters with Craig.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a video appearance at a 2007 “Friends of the NRA” dinner, Craig suggested that it was plausible that total firearm confiscation could occur in the United States and said, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tvQD1BzpI" target="_blank">When the government is the sole owner of firearms, you and I then become the subjects of a government, or the victims of a government, and not the free citizen that this country has been built on</a>.”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2007/08/28/143801/mens-room-arrest-reopens-questions.html" target="_blank">Craig supported a 2006 Idaho state constitution amendment that prohibits gay marriages and civil unions</a>.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Craig was hesitant to provide federal funds to aid the recovery. Preferring instead that the damaged areas of New Orleans be abandoned, he said, “<a href="http://www.wafb.com/story/3990310/senator-la-is-as-corrupt-as-iraq?redirected=true" target="blank">Fraud is in the culture of Iraqis. I believe that is true in the state of Louisiana as well.</a>” Craig suggested that the Lower Ninth Ward be turned “<a href="http://www.wafb.com/story/3990310/senator-la-is-as-corrupt-as-iraq?redirected=true" target="blank">back to what it was, a wetland.</a>”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2004, <a href="http://www.hrc.org/documents/2004ScoreCard.pdf" target="blank">the Human Rights Campaign Congressional Scorecard awarded Craig a score of 0 out of a possible 100 for his positions on gay rights</a>. His low score stemmed from his <a href="http://www.hrc.org/issues/5543.htm" target="blank">vote</a> for a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have limited marriage to opposite sex partners and a vote against the “Local Law Enforcement Act,” which provides federal assistance in the prosecution of hate crimes.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a 1999 appearance on <i>Meet the Press</i>, Craig criticized then-President Bill Clinton for having an extramarital affair, calling Clinton “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vs5570pKw" target="_blank">a nasty, bad, naughty boy</a>”.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig voted “<a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00380" target="blank">Yes</a>” to implement the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in 1993, which allowed for the dismissal of military service members who were discovered to be <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2173102/" target="blank">gay</a>.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig urged his sexual partners to keep quiet by using threats, reportedly telling one man in 1986, “<a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2007/12/02/226703/more-gay-men-describe-sexual-encounters.html#storylink=misearch" target="_blank">I can buy and sell your ass a thousand times over. You were never here.</a>”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1982 a former male Congressional page alleged that Members of Congress had encouraged pages to engage in sexual activity and drug and alcohol use. While no Members of Congress were specifically named, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RntWGPEjoo" target="_blank">then-Representative Craig issued a preemptive statement denying involvement</a>.</font></p>

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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig's</span>&nbsp;profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Larry</span>&nbsp;has 5 jobs listed on their profile. ...&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">West</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategies</span>&nbsp;LLC 2008 - Present 14 years. Board Member ...</div></div></div><div id="r1-1" data-testid="result" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.huffpost.com" data-hostname="www.huffpost.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 8px 1.2em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: calc(var(--max-content-width) - 72px);"><h2 class="resulttitle js-result-title" style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0.29em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: middle; position: static; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; letter-spacing: -0.01px; order: 1;"><a data-testid="result-title-a" class="resulta js-result-title-link" rel="noopener" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/larry-craig-losing-senate-lobbying_n_829748" style="margin: 0px 0px -0.05em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.22; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Larry Craig And The Losing Senate Class Of '08 Already ...</a></h2><div class="resultextras js-result-extras" style="margin: 1px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; position: relative; min-height: 1.57em; top: 0px; order: 0; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="resultextrasurl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 600px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="resulticon " style="margin: -3px 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; width: 16px;"><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=larry%20craig%20lobby%20new%20west%20strategies+site:www.huffpost.com" title="Search domain huffpost.com" class="js-result-extras-site_search" data-testid="result-extras-site-search-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-src="//external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.huffpost.com.ico" height="16" width="16" title="Search domain huffpost.com" class="resulticonimg js-lazyload-icons" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.huffpost.com.ico" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 16px;" /></a></span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/larry-craig-losing-senate-lobbying_n_829748" rel="noopener" class="resulturl js-result-extras-url" data-testid="result-extras-url-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; top: 2px;"><span class="resulturldomain" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">https://www.huffpost.com</span><span class="resulturlfull" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;">&nbsp;›&nbsp;entry › larry-craig-losing-senate-lobbying_n_829748</span></a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">He was, he said, "making the rounds" to see former Senate colleagues. From which CNN reported that the Idaho Republican was now a lobbyist, free to talk shop with Congress members after waiting through a cooling off period.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig's</span>&nbsp;firm,&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">West</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategies</span>, wouldn't actually confirm lobbying was now part of his portfolio.</div></div></div><div id="r1-2" data-testid="result" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.opensecrets.org" data-hostname="www.opensecrets.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 8px 1.2em 0px; 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font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;">&nbsp;›&nbsp;federal-lobbying › lobbyists › summary?cycle=2021&id=Y0000045039L</span></a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Larry</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig</span>&nbsp;is a lobbyist who lobbied for 2 clients in 2011. 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Foreign&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Lobby</span>&nbsp;Watch ...&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">West</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategies</span>: Operation Military Family: NOTE: Figures on this page are calculations by OpenSecrets based on data from the Senate Office of Public Records.</div></div></div><div id="r1-3" data-testid="result" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.huffpost.com" data-hostname="www.huffpost.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 8px 1.2em 0px; 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The consulting firm&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">West</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategies</span>&nbsp;founded by former U.S Sen.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Larry</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig</span>&nbsp;and partner Micheal O. 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