Personally, I am most concerned that the Administration has not nominated anyone to serve as State Department IG.

The fact that President Bush had as many IG vacancies in 2004 as President Obama does today does not mean we should ignore the current vacancies.

Inspectors general are critical to ensuring that our government works effectively and efficiently on behalf of the American taxpayers.

They represent a state that is the cradle of American music from the country capital of Music Row in Nashville to the blues of Memphis' Beale Street.

Our bill does not require that we obey foreign law, but treats foreign law as data to be included in an accessible U.S. database.

Our legislation tries to correct several mistakes that we think Congress made in 2008 when it passed the latest amendments to the century-old Lacey Act.

Rare wood products such as guitars that were purchased prior to May 22, 2008 should be grandfathered so that musicians do not have to fear owning them.

The purposes of this proposal are to exempt any plant or finished plant product imported or completed before May 22, 2008.

The bipartisan legislation that my Republican colleagues, Mary Bono Mack and Marcia Blackburn, and I have introduced is really very simple.

Helping musicians like Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs is the primary impetus of our legislation because all Americans have the constitutional right to travel.

We can help these innocent people without harming the worthy environmental goals of the Lacey Act.