I am pleased to join Senator Enzi to speak in support of the nomination of Nancy Freudenthal to be a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Wyoming.

Nancy Freudenthal has the qualifications to be an effective member of the Federal bench.

A lot of people probably don't realize that this committee passes more legislation than virtually any other committee.

A taxpayer bailout of the PBGC is not an option.

I thank the gentleman from Iowa. And I look forward to the day when you are in the majority party, next year on this floor, and I am in the majority party, God willing, and that we can work together with President Obama to solve the…

Interestingly, over the August recess, when we were all at home having town hall meetings and the people had their opportunities to step forward and express their opinions about this bill, one of the leaders of the majority party in the…

I have a couple more questions for you. We look at the fact that, in the health care bill, the Senator from Nebraska sought an exemption from the impacts of Medicaid expenditures in his State and at the fact that the Amish sought an…

One of the reasons that we do that is, we have a good working relationship between the majority and the minority.

I think it is good that the parties in this dispute were able to come together and reach an agreement.

$3.4 billion is an incredible amount of money, and it is a lot of American taxpayers' money.

is this settlement fair to the Indian account holders and the landowners?

Nuclear power is a key component of making America's energy clean, affordable and reliable.

The loss of mining and mining related jobs in Wyoming and elsewhere will be a direct outcome of the Department's present course.

We need to encourage domestic uranium production. I believe it will foster job growth, promote economic security as well as energy security.

The uranium industry's planned expansions and future operations in Wyoming should provide long term high paying jobs to Wyoming miners for years to come.

It is a great discussion, considering the importance during this time, these recessionary times.

I favor reducing spending, which is something that neither Republicans nor Democrats have taken seriously.

We want this technology developed.