In regards to the letter that you wrote to the United States Forest Service, and you said you always follow the law, is tree spiking following the law?

We must also recognize the human impact this crisis is having on our nation's wildland firefighters.

I am going to ask one real quick final question. We saw the impact of illegal aliens causing fire on Federal lands down in southern Arizona.

This is a political choice, and yet headline after headline states that the electricity grid is stretched thin.

I would like to encourage my friends to recognize the reality that the influx of funds provided to our forest management agencies have thus far failed to deliver the increase in pace and scale of fuels treatment that is truly needed.

Over the weekend, my district tragically lost the life of another police officer in the line of duty. We mourn the loss of St. Croix County Sheriff's Deputy Katie Leising. No amount of words can express the loss that Wisconsin has felt for…

Do you agree with the conversion to wind and solar for our energy sources?

Is your goal to end mining?

We can mine everywhere except in my back yard. That is the message we get. Not in my back yard.

Well, Senator Bakk, you may have lit the next border war between Wisconsin and Minnesota today...

What do you define as insignificant?

Yes, so we can taconite mine, but not the other stuff.