Denny Rehberg

Many in this Chamber think jobs come from the benevolence of the Federal Government. But last week I visited businesses in four Montana towns to hear what small business owners who actually create jobs had to say. They told me the Federal…

While efforts to tax energy production have failed because of overwhelming public opposition, the Environmental Protection Agency quietly perpetrated one of the largest power grabs ever. A little-noticed decision last year expanded the…

I don't know why we are afraid of using the word logging because logging is nothing more than a tool to help us manage the forests.

It is renewable. Cap in tax is not the solution. An all of the above energy policy is the solution.

I would suggest the forests are in such terrible shape because of the lack of management...

As a result, our western forests are now more vulnerable than ever to massive forest fires that can engulf entire communities.

Nobody is going to deny that. If you are asking whether I think that our forests are mismanaged, I do believe that to be the case.

I am not proposing, nor would I ever suggest, limiting access to the Courts.

I think this Congress ought to spend its time on getting something that clearly understands nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, oil, gas, coal, conservation and grants the loans to help us invent our way into the next generation rather than…

In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, elected on a platform of change, said in his inaugural address, ``The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' In 1961, another President, John F. Kennedy…

the State Children's Health Insurance Program is important to the people of Montana. In fact, in November, we voted to expand eligibility within our State. SCHIP was created by a Republican Congress and a Democrat President in 1997. It was…

in light of the distressing statistics regarding the Office of National Drug Control Policy's National Youth Media Campaign, and its subsequent reduction within our committee, I rise today to let my colleagues know that it is possible to…

before I begin, may I have a parliamentary inquiry to have unanimous consent to interject a letter into the Record? Do I do that during this debate? The CHAIRMAN. That will have to be done in the full House as opposed to in the Committee…

I rise in support of Mr. LaTourette's amendment. One of the things you heard talked about was the fact that Amtrak was making changes. That is absolutely incorrect. I have an article I am going to interject into the Record: ``Passenger…

yesterday, I introduced the Private Property Protection Act, a companion bill to legislation in the Senate designed to correct the erroneous decision made by the Supreme Court on June 23. That decision redefined the Constitution's fifth…

I too recognize the difficult position that the Appropriations Committee has been put in with the cost of Amtrak and the ongoing costs. I just caution the Members of this body that there are States like myself. I represent an entire State…

I thank the chairman not only for his sense of urgency but his kind consideration in letting me go out of turn in my statement. I thank the chairman. I thank the House of Representatives for its positive consideration of this piece of…

point of clarification, if the intent is to split the proponents of the amendment, so I am a proponent, 15 minutes in favor of my amendment and 7\1/2\ minutes each to those that are opposed to the amendment, is that what the unanimous…

here we are addressing an issue we have addressed many times over the last several years. I find myself in a precarious position because I do support the agriculture appropriations bill, and I think the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Bonilla)…

I have all the sympathy in the world for Wyoming losing its brucellosis status, because you know as well as I do it costs millions of dollars to prove to everyone again that you are brucellosis free. So you have got a situation that I do…

I just do not understand how anybody that truly loves their park could support an amendment like this. I was Lieutenant Governor before I was a Congressman so I was intimately involved in the negotiations on this process. I am also a land…

the gentleman makes my point exactly because if we could tell the wolves to stay behind the fence the same way we are trying to expect the bison to respect the fences of Yellowstone Park, we would not have a problem. Reintroduce the wolves…

I oppose this amendment. Oftentimes in Montana I have to try to go back and explain some of the dumb things that Congress does, and I usually explain to them that we are a reflection of society, that there is no literacy test to run for…

I want to point out my statistic, it is less than 1 percent of Yellowstone Park you will be able to hear snowmobiles, it is .082. I might remind some of my colleagues throughout Congress that there are other parks that have snowmobiling…

I remember working in Washington during Ronald Reagan's transition in 1980. It was heartening to see the change in attitude and renewed patriotism among the public and in Washington. You see, in those days so many Americans felt…