Mike Simpson: “You can do it a lot safer and a lot more environmentally friendly, as I have talked with some mining companies.”

I’m pleased to see these funds allocated to help Idaho schools, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects.

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.

We’re not going to tear down and bulldoze the Kennedy Center.

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