Gaming activities must be regulated effectively. No one, be it contractors, vendors, players or employees should illegally benefit at the expense of the tribes.

You see value in the process?

So the question is, can you guarantee success in Paris? And if not, aren't these climate change policies all pain for America and the citizens of this Country and little gain globally?

I know, and these aren't just a couple of training events. I understand about 341 different events over the last two years with almost 5,000 participants attending.

So I ask you, Mr. Secretary: Are there serious unintended consequences to our national security if we go down this path, as Europe has done?

Can you tell me how successful the Kyoto Protocol was in making countries that signed the treaty more energy independent and secure from countries or foreign entities that did not share their strategic interests?

Increased LNG exports from the United States and its allies would shift rents away from traditional autocratic suppliers, including Russia.

Our ability to export LNG is an important foreign policy tool.

taxpayer money would be better spent improving the security of U.S. embassies.

There are serious implications for our national security, and you see them by the climate policies being implemented in places like Europe.

So I say, why should we then spend billions of taxpayer dollars, defense dollars specifically, on climate change predictions about future conflicts due to drought and famine that the Department's own studies say that we cannot predict?

the world is far from safe, far from save to preserve our national security.

Well, that is what I heard when I was in Latvia and Lithuania, that the concerns are that they were supposed to get to 2 percent, but they are unable to, and a lot of it has to do with the expenses that you have outlined.

Senator Inhofe had a statement that he would like to have included in the record.

Efforts to link climate change to the deterioration of U.S. national security rely on improbable scenarios, imprecise and speculative methods, and scant empirical support.

The threat assessment states that, 'There are increasing reports of Italian organized crime groups engaging in a so-called alternative or green energy market.'

I think it was an interesting discussion and then decision in Australia to repeal because of the specific impacts of it on the economy.

Secretary Kerry has called climate change the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.

If the United States had adopted a cap-and-trade system, do you think it would have helped or hurt our strategic interests?

Accepting the connection can lead to the dangerous expansion of U.S. security concerns, inappropriately applied resources, and diversion of attention from more effective responses to known environmental problems.

the administration's foreign policies have led to a more unstable and more dangerous world.

the United States is facing serious national security threats across the globe.

A recent survey cited in the report found that primary causes of interstate conflict and civil war are political, not environmental.

I come to the floor today to respond to some of the comments by the Senator from Connecticut and specifically with regard to the health care law. I come with an interest because I did part of my medical training in that State, still have…

the one person who foresaw many of the problems we are now encountering and tried to address them was Senator Barrasso of Wyoming.