Mike Simpson: “Thank you all for being here and traveling such a long distance.”

This should not be this damn complicated, and somehow we’ve got to change that.

We put a bunch more money into tribal justice, and that’s hard in a year when we’re trying to reduce spending at the federal level.

I regularly hear from farmers, ranchers, and producers in Idaho, and their main concern over the years has been when Congress will reauthorize the Farm Bill.

But I’ve said from the beginning: We’re not going to try to balance the budget on the back of the tribes.