I want to join in the welcome of Secretary Salazar, who is well known and well loved here in our--in the Senate.
I would hope, Mr. Secretary, you would look for ways to recognize the Smokies doing so much for itself.
I have two areas of question. One has to do with fish hatcheries.
I want to remind the Secretary and this subcommittee of the disparity in funding of our great national parks.
I think increasingly those of us who deal with energy and environment are saying we ought to treat all our different forms of energy as equa...
I would like to see us refocus our attention on LWCF, the bipartisan promise we made to land conservation in 1965.
If every politician were here who denounced waste, fraud, and abuse, this hearing room would be packed.
I think that one of the things that concerns me is looking at what we have found out with the increase from '06 to '10 a 650 percent increas...
most of us don't really care if it is a duplicative program as long as it sounds good to kids or seniors or veterans.
We all know and we realize how very--how debilitating these attacks would be.
the political reward system is such that we are primarily benefited if we have good news speech material that excites voters back home.
I think most people in the country watching what is happening believe there is a very good chance that we could end up with a military engag...
The President did not ask for the very funds that he committed to in the 1251 that was laid out.
The jobs crisis we now face... is a tribute to regulatory failure.
This bill would impede many of the routine functions of government.
H.R. 4078 is premised on the false assertion that regulations undermine job creation.
This bill, the Regulatory Freeze for the Jobs Act is an instrument that creates a mistaken cure for a problem that doesn't exist.
It is basically the lack of demand, the destruction of the middle class, which has been done over and over through laws and policies, advoca...
