Be sure to catch Mr. Inhofe's speech. It should be on later again today on cspan2.
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Inhofe/Tancredo 2008???
Who was the other one to vote no?
Those republican senators not voting on this bill were:
Kit Bond
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Orrin Hatch
Gordon Smith
Trent Lott
Don Nichols
Democrats not there for the vote:
Tom Hrkin
Fritz Hollings
Dan Inoye (spelling??)
Kerry finally showed up!
Mr. Inhofe is doing some good work to expose the enviromental extremists:
PARTISAN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
Monday, October 4, 2004
Mr./Madam President, I rise today to shed some light on a subject that is very important to me in my oversight duties as Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Earlier this year, the Environment and Public Works Committee held an oversight hearing where the Committee heard testimony from the General Accounting Office and the EPA Inspector General regarding a ten year history of numerous problems with the management of grant dollars at the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of the problems included EPA not requiring grant recipients to demonstrate real environmental benefits from grants, EPA not requiring competition in its grant awards, and a general lack of oversight of EPA grant officers and recipients. In fact, the EPA Inspector General released an audit only two days before the hearing finding that a particular non-profit grantee had violated the Lobbying Disclosure Act with nearly $5 million of EPA grant funding.
Over the last few months my staff has done considerable research into EPA grants management and has confirmed many of these problems and also found that EPA has a long history of awarding grant dollars without competition to some well-known non-profit environmental groups that regularly engage in political activity. My staff has compiled some of these findings in this thirty page Report to the Chairman. I ask unanimous consent to have this report inserted into the record at the conclusion of my remarks.
In examining how the environmental groups receive and spend their federal funds, it quickly became apparent that these groups receive funding from numerous sources including large foundations. With these organizations’ political and grass-roots efforts it quickly became difficult differentiating the sources of their funds and how they spend them. Therefore I instructed my staff to examine the funding and expenditures records of these organizations which has resulted in a second report, which is the focus of my remarks today. My staff has compiled this information into a fifteen page Report for the Chairman to provide some preliminary examples describing five of the most widely politically active environmental groups, a description of their activity, the foundations that provide the financial support for those groups, and the interconnected web among all those organizations. At this time, I ask unanimous consent to have the report inserted to the record at the conclusion of my remarks.
Interestingly, these environmental groups are all tax-exempt IRS registered 501(c)(3) charitable organizations meaning that contributions to these groups are tax deductible. (CHART 1). These groups profess to be the greatest stewards of the environment and solicit contributions from a variety of sources by that claim. But they demonstrate more interest in hyping apocalyptic environmental scenarios to raise money for raw political purposes rather than working together to improve our environment for the benefit of all Americans. All these non-profit groups are also closely associated and fund their affiliated 501(c)(4) lobbying organizations and 527 political organizations. This report could not be more timely, as the Washington Post as recently as September 27, 2004 published an article demonstrating that IRS 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 527 organizations are all engaged in political activity this election cycle with expenditures designed to circumvent the prohibitions in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, otherwise known as McCain-Feingold. snip.....
http://inhofe.senate.gov/preleases.htm
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I've always liked Inhofe a lot, since his 1999 floor speech on China, all about Clinton giving away our nuclear secrets.
Interestingly, very shortly after that, he lost a propeller on his private plane while he was flying it and the FBI investigated. Here's an old FR thread about it.
NEW POLL UP!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Do you support legislation that would secure our borders and reform immigration law?
Yes 96% 3151 votes
No 4% 141 votes
Total: 3292 votes