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Former U.S. senator Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyoming) passed away on Wednesday at age 78. The Washington Post obit for him has a quote from one of his Cato appearances: Sen. Wallop was unapologetically conservative as a Republican, a position that sometimes drew ire from members of his own party.“Too many Republicans prefer to be a Democrat Lite,” he said in a speech at the Cato Institute in 1994. “As any beer connoisseur can tell you, Lite is a tasteless, repugnant concoction.” Way before the Tea Party came along, he penned a scathing and wide-ranging critique of the expansive growth of the federal government in...

Former three-term U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop, who became a leading conservative voice during the Reagan era in fighting for space defense and a tough anti-communist policy in Central America, died Wednesday. He was 78. Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c6439289-3b33-5c43-b582-dfb65ad143e9.html#ixzz1Y1Cs30yK

Press Conference Celebrates the American Soldier: "America is the World’s Most Generous Nation in the Cause of Freedom" For Immediate Release February 23, 2004 (Washington, DC) Frontiers of Freedom Chairman Senator Malcolm Wallop will appear tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24th at a Capitol Hill press conference celebrating the Veterans History Project, a joint venture between the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL), the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. “America is the world’s most generous nation in the cause of freedom,” states Chairman Wallop. “Dating back to...

Excerpted for length -- click through to read the entire article... Pass the Energy Bill By Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R - WY) Ret. February 3, 2004 With the holiday season behind us, the US Senate returns to Washington to continue their pre-holiday arguing over the House-passed Energy Bill. Unfortunately, the bill was stalled, primarily due to a common-sense provision which would rein in the out-of-control elements of the trial bar and protect manufacturers of MTBE from outrageous efforts by trial attorneys to score a payday. Legislators need to understand that, contrary to the screaming and inaccurate rhetoric from those who...