| | |author=Donald R. Baucom|title=Missile Defense Milestones"|publisher=fas.org|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref> | | |author=Donald R. Baucom|title=Missile Defense Milestones"|publisher=fas.org|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref> |
| − | In 1988, Wallop won his final term by just 1,322 votes over Democratic state senator John P. Vinich (1950-2004), the son of the 1972 Democratic Senate nominee, Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015), who lost to [[Clifford P. Hansen]], a former one-term governor and two-term U.S. senator. In his last term, Wallop pressed foreign policy and trade debates. He was a member of the [[Helsinki Commission]] and was a defender of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] and the [[World Trade Organization]].<ref name=NYTobit/> | + | In 1988, Wallop won his final term by just 1,322 votes over Democratic state senator John P. Vinich (1950-2004), the son of the 1972 Democratic Senate nominee, Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015), who lost to [[Clifford P. Hansen]], a former one-term governor and two-term U.S. senator. In his last term, Wallop pressed foreign policy and trade debates. He was a member of the Helsinki Commission and was a defender of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] and the [[World Trade Organization]].<ref name=NYTobit/> |
| | From 1990-94, he was the ranking Republican member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and in 1992, was a key force behind passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act.<ref name=NYTobit/> | | From 1990-94, he was the ranking Republican member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and in 1992, was a key force behind passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act.<ref name=NYTobit/> |