Denny Rehberg: “the gentleman makes my point exactly because if we could tell the wolves to stay behind the fence the same way we are…”

First of all, Madam Chairman, thank you for the fine work on this piece of legislation, something that's truly overdue. Mr. Speaker, the difficulty we had was a number of years ago, a piece of legislation went through this Congress with…

I respectably ask the committee to consider a legislative remedy to this problem, which threatens workplace safety in our industry.

We must demand a third option, a way to utilize our natural resources while doing everything we can to protect the environment.

As chairman of the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, we have no objections to this amendment. I have often said--jokingly, of course--that the reason the Internet is so successful in America is that the government…