Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act, along with my good friend, Senator Tester. We introduce this bill as a critical step in 2 decades of negotiations between the Blackfeet Nation, the State…

Mr. President, one of Aesop's Fables teaches us, ``In union there is strength.'' In 2009, Haiti's future was beginning to strengthen. A U.S. trade preference program, known as the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership…

In 2006 Senator Baucus sponsored legislation that withdrew 500,000 acres of public lands along the Rocky Mountain Front from oil and gas leasing.

companies will likely make more money by negotiating out of leases by avoiding the costly uphill battles

We would like to go on the record as supporting withdrawal expansion requests like these.

Thank you for the opportunity to present written testimony in support of S. 3075, the North Fork Watershed Protection Act of 2010, introduced by Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester.

Now, after 35 years, we are beginning a new chapter of international cooperation in the North Fork.

We thank Senators Baucus and Tester for introducing this legislation.

For decades, the North Fork has been threatened by oil and gas and mining proposals at British Columbia.

Conoco Phillips should be commended for this decision and their stewardship of this very unique, special place.

ConocoPhillips is voluntarily returning 169,000 acres of their suspended oil and gas leases to the Department of Interior.