Sali: Republican Party has lost its track 

Rep. Bill Sali spoke about his views on reforming Congress, explained some of his controversial votes and previewed immigration reform legislation he plans to introduce in Congress at BizNet, a business leads and networking group, this morning. Here are a few highlights:

• “I think the Republican Party has lost track. We were in the majority and we spent money like drunken sailors and ran into ethical problems…. Republicans have a very deep-seated problem … people believe Democrats will spend less than the Republicans.”

• On Sen. Larry Craig: “He has steadfastly denied that he did anything wrong. There are some weird things that happened there. [If he was gay all this time] wouldn’t you expect there’s a long line of people saying, ‘I was one of them’? Are you really going to believe the Idaho Statesman?”

• “If you’re worried about global warming, the single best thing we can do is protect forest health to prevent these big wildfires. [Wildfires in three states in the last year] caused as much carbon dioxide as any manmade source. We’re straining at gnats.”

• “There’s already 17 different agencies that were managing over 200 different programs to increase interest in teaching science, technology, math and engineering. Is it a bad idea to do that? No. But it’s not working now. We need to do things differently. It’s really easy to say if we give another program to these guys and another program to these guys it’ll get things done…. Just throwing money at the problem is not a real solution.”

Read more about what Sali had to say in the Dec. 3 issue of the Idaho Business Review.  

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