The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

In 1992 Wallop was a key force behind passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act. He was succeeded by Republican Craig Thomas.

Malcolm Wallop (February 27 1933 – September 14 2011) was a Republican politician and former three-term United States Senator from Wyoming.