Cynthia Lummis

I hope that you will try to imbue the Department of the Interior with that same willingness to listen and communicate.

Today in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on border security, we heard from border officials that the border is not secure, or more specifically we heard no response when we asked: Is the border secure or not? And they…

Improving energy efficiency can be a commonsense, market-oriented solution to lower energy bills.

As household energy costs soar, moms' and dads' economic security slips away.

These increased energy costs and burdensome regulations will punish our economy, especially for my State of Wyoming.

His approach consists of policies already rejected by Congress in a bipartisan fashion.

The President is again pushing an extremist environmental agenda, the costs of which will fall most harshly on hard-working American families.

We don't need carbon policy dictated from the White House. We need to work together to produce real results.

When I go home, all I hear about is secure the border first, then we will talk about comprehensive immigration reform.

And was it under a different set of criteria? Why, when it was recovered under initial criteria, was it subsequently put back on a lesser level of listing, but nevertheless a listing level?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, one and all, for attending today.

I have a question about grizzly bears. Was the grizzly bear at one time--first of all, is it listed as an endangered species?

I understand that there were several layers of approval for the use of pesticides on public lands.

We are happy to have you here today, by the way.

I do. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Director Fearneyhough has been the director of Wyoming's Department of Agriculture for the past 4 years, which means as an appointee, and a political appointee at that, he has served both for a Democrat Governor and a Republican Governor.

Improvements to the 40 year old ESA are not only possible, but desirable.

According to the State Department, the project would support over 42,000 jobs and result in $2 billion in the pockets of hard-working Americans.

I don't understand how the President can claim to be committed to job creation and economic growth and still obstruct this project because it would support both.

Approval of the pipeline would also carry Bakken crude being produced in North Dakota.

This is such an important subject for our country, and so I really want to thank you for scheduling this hearing on the science and technical issues related to the Keystone XL pipeline.

Do you believe cutting your group sizes produces measurable benefits to preserving the naturalness of the wilderness areas on which your school resides, operates, works?

NOLS is a critical part of Wyoming's landscape and our multiple-use land tradition.

I want to welcome Aaron Bannon from the National Outdoor Leadership School to testify today.

I am hugely frustrated with the EPA and its treatment of my state and of fracking in general.