John Ensign
John Ensign
John Eric Ensignis an American veterinary physician and former politician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a Congressman and United States Senator from Nevada, serving in the latter seat from January 2001 until May 2011. He resigned amid a Senate Ethics Committee investigation after revelations of an affair with an aide and allegations of questionable actions taken to keep it secret...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 March 1958
CountryUnited States of America
We want to make sure those people who were affected by these catastrophic storms get the aid they need, ... but that we make some sacrifices elsewhere so we don't pass this enormous bill on to our children.
The time has come to put an end to the practice of slaughtering horses in America,
We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,
Why should the American taxpayer not be paid back if the taxpayer in France, if the taxpayer in Germany, if the taxpayer in Russia -- countries that were not willing to support us when we were doing what was right in the world -- why should those taxpayers be paid back and not the taxpayers of America?
We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent. We have an obligation to those affected by the hurricane as well as to those Americans we are asking to help pay the costs of relief.
We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent,
Without the president leading the way to try to show specifics to bring us a package (of spending cuts) forward, I don't know that we'll have a chance of success,
That's past history. Southwest Airlines won that argument in the courts.
We know what we did was right and fine and within ethics rules, and we wanted a stamp of approval from the Ethics Committee.
Our staff over the next couple months will be looking at the Healthy Forests Initiative to figure out how we can do this,
There were many proposals that violated environmental laws. Things the president was trying to do to speed up the process. Yucca Mountain is in trouble by itself. The good thing about this legislation is that they don't have any fast track authority to move it through the congress.
I respect him. I disagree with him on a lot of issues, and we fight for what we believe in on our various issues. But we never attack each other personally, we give each other space when we disagree, and it works out very, very well.
His voting record until 1997 is one of supporting the repository, and he voted to make Nevada the sole repository site for waste. Nevadans deserve more than efforts to scare and mislead them.
He was acting as an advocate at the time, that's a different role than as a judge,