I simply rise to express my concern about the lack of progress that we have made in the last several days on a bill that I think is generally supported in this body, certainly is supported by me and I know is supported by almost all of the…

Because the last rollcall vote was 416 to 1, and I fail to understand where the gentleman differentiates on a 416-to-1 rollcall vote.

I would like to comment this morning on an issue that I think is important to us and to this country, and that is the balanced budget amendment. Although we have been discussing over the past several days the unfunded mandates bill, the…

Mr. Speaker, we began this process on January 4 and we moved the legislation to the Senate. We are considering today, on January 17, Senate bill 2, the Senate version of this legislation. There will be no conference committee. This…

it is my pleasure, as I rise this morning, to join my colleagues in support of S. 1, the unfunded mandates bill that Senator Kempthorne and many others have done such great work on. In the recent election, of course, this country and the…

it is with a great deal of pride and humility that I rise today as Wyoming's newest Senator. It is a great honor, of course, to be here. I take the floor to speak about a matter which is of great concern to me and all of us, and that is…

That might be part of the problem. It is difficult to hold an organizing meeting of the committee when the members of the committee have not been named.