Dirk Kempthorne: “Senator, yes, because we must have greater transparency; we must have greater communication.”

My commitment to you is that, if confirmed, I will work to see that the decisions of the Service are based on science, not politics.

The UI's proposal would give rural Idahoans, who must deal with the lowest physician to patient ratio in the nation, access to better health care. It would give my state's rural economy a boost with real-time access to its customers. It…

They are, as Wallace Stegner famously said, America's best idea.

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