Our federal parks and monuments should be available for all Americans to enjoy--not something to be admired from afar and from behind a chain link fence.

This bill is necessary because the only way to guarantee public access is to require it by law.

I have been concerned about a number of EPA regulations related to similar things like what happens when you raise the cost of electricity and the people my district can't afford to heat their homes.

Dust is a necessary byproduct of the hard work the farmers and businesses in my rural district perform every day.

the government is borrowing 40 cents on every dollar it spends and therefore has fewer resources to do proper regulation.

I am not here to say that we don't need any regulations. I am not saying that at all.

With the Federal Government's nose now under the tent of insurers, so to speak, it is my hope that the FIO will not engage in mission creep and instead adhere to the limited mission that Congress intended it to serve.

When it comes to dust, the EPA and the Federal Government should not mandate a one-size-fits-all standard that could eventually lead to lost production.

I appreciate her leadership on this as well.

I think if you talk to the people I represent, they say for far too long the Congress has wholesale given its legislative prerogative over to agencies like the EPA who are not elected, who are not accountable to the people.

if you can't abate the dust, the only way to stop it is to stop production or stop driving on the roads, and what does that translate to? That translates to lost jobs.

I clearly think the idea of a currency union without fiscal union has presented a half-built house.

My life is more dictated today by what Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid are doing than what my wife is doing.

Again, I want to turn to Senator Johanns, but you did say you think within that European Stabilization Fund it is adequate when we are looking at a trillion dollar rollover in Italy and a half trillion dollar rollover just in Spain alone…

Well, again, I just hope we recognize that we are doing as much as possible we can at this moment in time in terms of the counterparty exposure of some of our institutions.

They have about 440 euros?

I believe that, and I share Senator Johanns's concern about how we do this in an organized basis.

I actually think you may see, as we have seen in the United Kingdom, they may even be taking an even more structured approach than what we took.