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Title: Schedule crunch precludes congressional delegation to Bali (BUT LARRY CRAIG ALREADY THERE)
Source: The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news ... -codel-to-bali-2007-12-06.html
Published: Dec 6, 2007
Author: Mike Soraghan
Post Date: 2007-12-07 11:42:10 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 94
Comments: 5

Schedule crunch precludes codel to Bali

By Mike Soraghan | Posted: 12/06/07 2:34 PM [ET]
December 06, 2007

The combined crush of energy and global warming legislation before Congress is having one immediate impact before the bills even pass.

Work on the measures forced Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) to cancel their congressional delegation trip (codel) to Bali for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

“Senate business has required Sen. Boxer to stay in Washington,” said a Senate staffer. Markey’s staff indicated similar issues led to his decision to stay stateside.

The Bali conference started Dec. 3 and runs through Dec. 14. The delegation had hoped to leave Thursday or Friday. But with votes predicted for the weekend and more votes on the energy bill expected in coming days, the scheduling did not work out.

The decision may also spare the Democrats some criticism regarding their travel plans. Their plans to bring a significant contingent across the Pacific Ocean reportedly would have entailed two C-40s (which is what the Army calls a Boeing 737) because of military regulations about how long pilots can fly. One would have had to fly ahead to Hawaii to carry the delegation on its second leg.

But others note that if the delegation had been criticized for burning fuel for the cause of climate change, that criticism would have been shared between the legislative and executive branches, which both intended to send personnel.

Because the lawmakers are not going, the Senate staffer said, their aides have turned to their longstanding backup plans to travel to the conference by commercial air.

“Sen. Boxer will be represented at the conference by senior committee staff,” the staffer said.

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I heard on the radio over the weekend that Larry Craig was already on Bali for the conference.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-12-07   11:42:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

wonder if craig took any boy toys with him

christine  posted on  2007-12-07   12:07:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

That radio report may have been premature. All the press reports I can discover are from a couple of days ago, saying he still intended to go. I wonder if he was at the cloture vote on the energy bill this morning.

ADDITION: According to CQ, Craig was at that cloture vote, and voted No.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-12-07   12:11:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

There was an article a few days back that indicated that he and that fellow that Haggard hooked up with also hooked up........I think they have 8 guys now, with 4 being named and 4 withholding their names.

God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!

rowdee  posted on  2007-12-07   12:22:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Here's the latest from the Idaho Statesman; it's dated the 4th of this month. A couple of the comments on the Statesman's website are funny........one calls him Lavatory Larry; in another it suggests that the wad in the back pocket of the whore is like a vial of anthrax in DC. And for the record, the last paragraph is certainly indicative of the queer's 'in your face' mentality of today.

7 p.m. -- Washington Post: New Allegations Test Craig’s New Boldness

ELSEWHERE

Check out the Idaho Statesman's complete coverage of the latest news on Sen. Larry Craig, including audio interviews and readers' comments

By Paul Kane - The Washington Post Edition Date: 12/04/07

On Labor Day weekend, Sen. Larry E. Craig, R-Idaho, told the nation he would resign within weeks because of the uproar over his arrest in a sex sting in an airport men’s room. To stay and fight, Craig said in a news conference carried live by cable news channels, would be “an unwanted and unfair distraction” from his work as a senator and his responsibilities to his colleagues. This week, three months later, Craig returns to Congress in the wake of the most lurid allegations about his conduct to date, vowing yet again to finish out his term, having long since abandoned his promise to step down quietly for the good of his constituents and his party.

Far from hiding in disgrace, Craig carries on with his odd new normal: After dodging television cameras in the early days of the scandal, he now quietly attends political fund-raisers, meets with Cabinet nominees and attends to constituents.

Craig will, in fact, end his week on Capitol Hill on Thursday by casting his secret ballot in GOP caucus leadership elections — contests that can be decided by a single vote — then take off on a military jet to Bali, Indonesia, at taxpayer expense, part of a congressional delegation to a United Nations summit on global warming.

This stay-the-course approach comes as Craig battles detailed allegations of homosexual acts that conflict with his adamant statement that he is “not gay,” made in August after news broke of his arrest in a sting conducted after complaints of lewd behavior in a Minneapolis airport restroom. Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.

On Sunday the Idaho Statesman reported in considerable detail the claims of two men who said they had sex with Craig, and two others who said he made passes at them. One of the men, Mike Jones, 50, is a former prostitute whose revelations of encounters with the Rev. Ted Haggard prompted Haggard’s resignation as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and forced him to step down from his Colorado church.

Jones told the Statesman that in the winter of 2004-2005, Craig, while visiting Denver, paid him $200 for an hour-long sexual encounter. Another man, David Phillips, told the paper he had sex with Craig in the summer of 1986 while Craig was a member of the House. The two met at a gay nightclub, according to Phillips, now 42 and an information technology consultant in Washington.

Craig, who is married, said the report had no “basis in reality” and accused the paper of engaging in “tabloid journalism” by running a story that was not corroborated. “Despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I won’t let this paper’s attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho,” Craig said in a statement.

And so Craig soldiers on. His colleagues appear resigned to his staying.

“The matter’s before the ethics committee, and we’ll see what they think is appropriate,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday, declining to comment further.

When the scandal broke, McConnell and Sen. John Ensign, Nev., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, were the leading Republicans to call for the ethics investigation, Craig’s removal from senior committee posts and, ultimately, his resignation.

After Craig said in early October that he would remain in the Senate, Ensign called Craig’s legal woes “embarrassing for the Senate.” This week he had no comment.

Craig still faces a “preliminary inquiry” into his guilty plea by the Senate ethics committee, according to Natalie Ravitz, a spokeswoman for Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who chairs the panel. The probe could drag on for months, possibly into next year’s election season.

Craig also is appealing a Minnesota judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea.

Craig said he initially decided to stay in the Senate after spending several weeks there and concluding that he could help Idaho via his positions on the Appropriations and Energy and Natural Resources committees, panels that take up measures vital to his state, even if he no longer holds seniority.

According to Craig’s Web site, he and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, secured tens of millions of dollars for the state in spending bills in just two weeks in November. These earmarks included $8 million for the Special Olympics Winter Games, to be held in Idaho in 2009, and $175,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Buhl, Idaho.

“The bottom line is, he is a working senator representing Idaho. Certainly the senators running for leadership posts recognize he still has a vote that matters,” said Dan Whiting, Craig’s spokesman in Washington.

But Craig’s presence in the Senate is far from ordinary. Craig initially RSVP’d “yes” for a fund-raising event for the National Republican Senatorial Committee held early last month in Sea Island, Ga., but, according to several aides, he was told not to attend.

He raised eyebrows when he attended a fund-raiser at the committee’s Capitol Hill headquarters last month for Idaho Lt. Gov. James E. Risch, R, who hopes to succeed Craig, according to a GOP aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about internal Republican politics.

(c) 2007 The Washington Post

God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!

rowdee  posted on  2007-12-07   12:31:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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