Dirk Kempthorne: “They are, as Wallace Stegner famously said, America's best idea.”

As my distinguished colleague points out, the original provision was limited, focusing on increased efficiency and, wherever appropriate, information coordination. Congress did not intend to authorize a provision that created a sweeping…

Senator, yes, because we must have greater transparency; we must have greater communication.

As chairman of the Drinking Water Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I am concerned that the National Marine Fisheries Service's guidelines on essential fish habitat have exceeded the scope…

The driving urgency of the program is to have shovel-ready projects that create jobs that can help alleviate the economic suffering.