It's an important issue for my state and others.
I want to applaud Chairman McIntyre and the whole Commission for unanimously rejecting the Secretary's proposal.
Given some of the troubling stories about coal interests and lobbying the Department, it has never been more important f...
Bailing out coal plants isn't just bad policy, it was a breathtaking raid on the consumer's pocketbooks.
What assurances can you give us from these rural states?
That makes it very, very challenging.
I mean, it is difficult in an island area where you are not connected, where you are remote.
The State of Alaska just conducted an Alaska Health Impact Assessment.
Should I be worried in a small, remote, not accessible by road, shut out by weather?
We had to be our own little island when it comes to response.
It definitely should not happen with nominees to go fill senior VA positions.
Those games do not occur on this Committee.
Let us get them confirmed, let us get them going. We do not need 40 hours of debate on some of these.
I commend the administration for its focus on that.
I talked about the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act.
We finally passed out of the Committee here the Serving Our Rural Veterans Act, which was Senator Tester and I's bill.
The games occur on the floor of the Senate, where this administration's nominees have been delayed in ways that have bee...
Delays and delays and delays on, you know, Senate, or Presidential-appointed nominees, particularly as it relates to the...
