Gallery
Doc with his DC staff, December 1995. Left to right: Ed Cassidy, Chuck Berwick, Linda Bradley, Doug Riggs, Doc, Todd Ungerecht, Caroline Charles, Jennifer Parsons, and Dan Aldrich. (Hastings family)
Doc pitching the idea of the Nuclear Cleanup
Caucus to Speaker Gingrich in February 1995. Left to right: Lindsay Graham, South Carolina; Zach Wamp, Tennessee; Newt Gingrich, Georgia; Charlie Norwood, Georgia; and Doc.(Hastings family)
Unsuccessful White House budget negotiations
to try to stave off a government shutdown on December 29, 1995. Left to right: Treasury secretary
Robert Rubin, Speaker Newt Gingrich, President
Clinton, and Senate majority leader Bob Dole of
Kansas. (Associated Press/Wilfredo Lee)
Doc comments during the September 10, 1998, Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. “We have a potential crisis in governance.” (Hastings family)
Television coverage of a Corps of Engineers’
helicopter dropping rocks on the Columbia River
site of the discovery of Kennewick Man in March
1998. (Hastings family)
Doc speaks to three thousand supporters of efforts
to protect the Snake River dams at the Save Our Dams rally in Kennewick on the evening of February 18, 1999. (Hastings family)
Doc and Speaker Gingrich tour the Hanford Reach on November 3, 1998. Doc is setting the groundwork for his contention that this portion of the Columbia River ought to be protected but under the control of local government. (Hastings family)
Doc (left) stands next to Washington congresswoman Jennifer Dunn (center) and Dick Armey of Texas (right) during a press conference in November 18, 1998, after Armey defeated Dunn to become the House majority leader, (Hastings family)
The Hastings boys gather to celebrate their mother’s eighty-fifth birthday on May 3, 1999. Left to right: Robert, Florence, Roger, Ivan, Regan, and Doc. (Hastings family)
A truck speeds along the Hanford highway on
June 29, 2000, as a wildfire sweeps towards it from
the west. More than 190,000 acres of the Hanford
Site burned. (Tri-City Herald/Scott Butner)
Vice president Al Gore visits Richland to announce the creation of the Hanford Reach National Monument on June 10, 2000. (Hastings family)
Doc and vice president Dick Cheney appear together at a Yakima fundraiser for Cheney during the 2000 presidential election, October 9, 2000. (Hastings family)
Members of the House of Representatives evacuate the House Chamber at 9:47 a.m., September 11, 2001, as Doc holds a press conference on the Endangered Species Act on the Capitol grounds. (YouTube.com/MSNBC)
President George Bush delivers his “Axis of Evil” State of the Union address on January 29, 2002. (YouTube.com)
President George Bush is given a tour of the Ice Harbor Dam fish ladder by Scott Sutliffe of the US Army Corps of Engineers, August 22, 2003. (Tri-City Herald/Bob Brawdy)
Representative James Traficant of Ohio defends
himself before the House Ethics Committee on July
15, 2002, before he was expelled from the House.
Doc led the investigation, leading Traficant to say,
“Doc Hastings is a very fair man.” (Associated Press/
Dennis Cook)
Doc always made a special effort to attend annual
Veterans Day events. Here he is in Columbia Park in
Kennewick on November 11, 2003. (Hastings family)
Doc always made a special effort to attend annual
Veterans Day events. Here he is in Columbia Park in
Kennewick on November 11, 2003. Hastings family.
Doc presides over the vote on Medicare prescription drugs on November 23, 2003. He kept the vote open for two hours and fifty-three minutes until there were enough Republican votes to pass it. The vote resulted in ethics charges against minority whip Tom DeLay. (Hastings family)
Claire writes in her journal while Doc looks on after their visit to Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Belgium, April 2, 2005. (Hastings family)
