Too often, environmental regulations saddle small businesses with new burdens.

Promoting a clean environment is critical, and nowhere is that more evident than here in Grand Junction.

If you start doing research and let's figure out how to do it better, cleaner, more efficiently, I think there is a road ahead.

I was unable to vote on the Motion to Recommit and Final Passage of H.R. 2354, the Energy and Water Appropriations Act of 2012. I would have voted ``aye'' on the Motion to Recommit, and ``no'' on Final Passage. ____________________

Right now, as we discuss the NDIC once again, I am concerned for the folks who are working at the NDIC, doing the great work, and am worried about them as their work and their jobs are, again, turned into a political football. As the…

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Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be…

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