Denny Rehberg

There is an old adage, the louder your opponents protest, the more you know you are successful with what you are doing. That is exactly what is happening with Medicare's new prescription drug coverage. Those who voted against the new…

this spring as we complete another tax season, families and small businesses have reason to celebrate. Thanks to our $350 billion tax relief bill which the President signed into law last year, working taxpayers are getting back more of…

I am proud of the Medicare prescription drug legislation we passed not long ago that will give more seniors more access to prescription drugs at lower costs. Sadly, a lot of seniors have not gotten the word yet. They have not heard that…

Another question, Mr. Speaker, if I might of the gentleman from Virginia. Is there any reason why this has not happened in the past based upon the majorities of the Congress and the fact that within the last year and a half this is the…

What possible reason would others within the United States Congress want to create an exception for their own forests or their own State and not provide the same opportunity for Virginia, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, now California, and…

The arrogance of somebody who makes a determination that we do not have a dog in this fight, that we do not have an opinion, that we do not understand the holistic management of our forests is incredible to me. I think the taxpayer ought…

if I may in conclusion to the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture just say very quickly that as I travel around the State of Montana and this country, I know and I talk to people about the fact that Federal properties in Montana…

I do not have a lot of love for the Endangered Species Act. I think that is well known within this Congress. I served on the Endangered Species Act reform committee. I think there are flaws. There are problems. But the difficulty is this…

the last speaker and the sponsor of this amendment act like nothing has been done over the last few years to try and manage the herds within Yellowstone Park. I can say that that is the farthest thing from the truth. This is 10 years of…

Smoke is being blown in the United States Congress. In fact, more smoke than is being blown by the snowmobiles in Yellowstone Park. I share with the Members what a dear colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey sent out, showing a picture…

The benefits of this bill are so obvious, one has to wonder what is going on in the minds of anyone who still opposes it. From their arguments, the opponents in the press and in this building seem to be saying, ``Do not create jobs, do not…

I am insulted by that. It is almost as if the tree did not burn in your district, there was no disaster. It happened year after year after year in Montana. In 1988, I was surrounded by fires. It happens every year in the State of Montana…

I feel like I have been watching the screenplay from Dumb and Dumber. We all admit that the last few years of managing our forests has been dumb. If we pass this substitute, we are even dumber than I thought we were. We are changing this…

I would like to know just exactly what are tax cuts for the rich? I hear it all of the time from critics of tax relief, so I looked into it and discovered that if we applied the sweeping logic of the antitax relief crowd, the term ``rich…

I was a staffer on the Committee on Resources 20 years ago when the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was making the same tired arguments. Here we are 20 years later, still without an energy policy. Over the course of…

Montana is known as the Treasure State because of our natural beauty and the natural resources that we can provide for economic and energy independence; but Montanans, I have learned, do not care so much about energy portfolio, grids or…

one of the things I have noted since coming to Congress is that we have a tendency to boil these arguments down to money. How much money one has got in their portfolio, what their dividends look like at any given time. Sometimes we lose…

some of Saddam Hussein's paramilitary monsters hanged a teenage girl last week for waving at coalition troops. In the same week, Iraqi military, pretending to surrender, fired upon our people who had offered them safety. This week we…

schools in rural districts face a barrage of problems unheard of in more populous areas. Country schools have continually had to confront the one-size-fits-all mentality of Washington, DC, when it comes to Federal education policy. For…

I have been disturbed by the headlines depicting extremists protesting the disarmament of Saddam Hussein even before it begins. I sadly read about a group of anarchists trashing a 9-11 memorial in California, tearing up dozens of American…

nearly 2 years ago President Bush nominated Miguel Estrada to fill a vacancy in the United States Court of Appeals. During this time, the President's opponents have turned ``advise and consent'' into ``criticize and dissent.'' They have…

it has been a tough week. But as we wind down this congressional session, I come to this floor to make one more plea on behalf of our Nation's farmers and ranchers. Producers in this country have suffered through multiple years of drought…

I want to talk today about a word called ``irony.'' Webster's dictionary says irony is when there is an incongruity between the actual and the expected result of events. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, we have a prime case of this in my State…

another week has passed without a comprehensive and balanced energy plan. In the first 6 months of this year, we paid terrorists an average of $13 million a day for their oil. This must end. Because America does not have a comprehensive…

time is of the essence. With national security on the minds of many Americans, I urge my colleagues to seize the opportunity and pass legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security. Each day that passes without this coordinating…