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Can you imagine being a locally elected official who is responsible for roads, schools, and all the services that a community needs in order just to survive, and having 93 percent of your tax base taken out from underneath you?
This bill gives us an opportunity to do that. It truly is a win-win situation. And I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support it.
Name me a job that you can sustain a family on working in the tourism industry from May to October.
Tourism alone is not able to sustain these communities.
The Federal Government promised that the monument would take little away and, instead, create a boom of tourism in the community surrounding the monument.
Before I turn to the main portion of my remarks, I would be remiss if I failed to recognize two staffers who were instrumental in helping us pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act earlier this month--James Williams, my senior policy adviser, and…
Well, thank you. Dr. Collins, one of the provisions of the 21st Century Cures was designed to improve opportunities for young and emerging researchers.
I've been a champion of the rare disease community for quite some time, and I applaud you for also recognizing how vital research in this area truly is.
I certainly appreciate you two gentlemen. I think you're both some of the best public servants I've seen in all of my 40-plus years in the U.S. Senate.
In the big picture, it gives us some certainty when it comes to the water rights in the Colorado River Basin.
We have committed to use negotiation rather than litigation as our preferred method of resolving reserved right claims.
We recognize, however, that properly-established, federally-reserved water rights, particularly tribal rights, are an important exception to that rule.
The entire State of Utah is in full support of this bill and this settlement.
I would just say in my small town, we have a saying that whiskey is for drinking and water should be for fighting.
Hoping that as this Brexit moves forward it can be done as gracefully as possible so that we can enjoy that same relationship with others in the European Union.
I would want to make sure that I express my appreciation for me and my constituents in Utah for the great relationship that we have with the United Kingdom.
These recovery programs ensure that people in our rural communities continue to have access to critical water sources for everything from irrigation to recreation.