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Senator Drafts Budget Rider
to Overturn Salmon Ruling

by Associated Press
Capital Press, December 2005

BOISE - U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is drafting a legislative rider to a federal spending bill to uphold management plans for dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers that were rejected by a federal judge because they failed to prevent salmon extinction.

"Senator Craig would certainly entertain an option for Congress to say the biological opinions the scientists spent years working on are adequate under the Endangered Species Act," Craig press secretary Dan Whiting said.

Craig and the rest of Idaho's all-Republican congressional delegation have criticized rulings by U.S. District Judge James Redden of Oregon in lawsuits brought by environmental groups that contend the federal government is not doing enough to promote the survival of endangered salmon.


Associated Press
Senator Drafts Budget Rider to Overturn Salmon Ruling
Capital Press, December 1, 2005

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