I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The…

I ask unanimous consent to call up my amendment No. 717. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Wyoming [Mr. Barrasso] proposes an amendment numbered 717.

I rise today to speak about this amendment which to me is very simple and very straightforward. This amendment is designed to protect the privacy and the safety of law- abiding gun owners. If a State or local government releases private…

I would like to take a moment to tell my colleagues about a remarkable lady, Joye Kading. Joye is being honored this week with the dedication of the Joye Kading Gallery at the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum. Joye Kading is the founder of…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To withhold 5 percent of Community Oriented Policing Services…

I just want to say that these Indian irrigation projects need to be addressed, I believe, as part of this bill so that these tribes can get the assistance that they need.

With bipartisan support of this committee it's time, I believe, for the Administration to fully support this common sense and much needed legislation.

the timing of the Administration's budget is another example, in my opinion, of the President leading from behind.

I agree completely with Senator Baucus' comments about water in the Rocky Mountain West, jobs and our economy.

the Forest Service really must return to its roots of management and proactively improving the health of our forests.

You know when I talked to both ranchers and agency employees back in Wyoming, they attribute the increase of cost to renew a permit actually to excessive litigation against the agency.

I believe that developing water for our rural areas is vital to economic growth in the West.

So I heard Senator Baucus say it wouldn't cost one thin dime.

I can't support the Administration's integrated resource restoration of the IRR program until the ability of Congress to maintain its oversight role is fully addressed.

the Good Neighbor Authority would be a useful tool for the states and the Forest Service.

I'm concerned with the current status of air tanker availability to fight wild fires.

Numerous issues need to be addressed to improve project management and financial sustainability.

Coal miners used to be heroes. But now many of my brothers and sisters in the coal industry fear for their families' livelihood.

I rise today to ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an article written by Ken Hamilton, Executive Vice President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau that was Published in the April 2013 edition of Wyoming Agriculture. The article's…

Since you have taken office, 10 percent of coal-fired generated power in the United States has been taken offline.

excessive rules from EPA affecting coal-fired power plants pose a serious threat to America's economic competitiveness.

Clearly, Congress, in a bipartisan way, rejected these efforts by the President in terms of climate change, rejected the issues of Federal waters.

I am not sure whether the nominee before us today is personally aware of so many folks who have actually lost their jobs because of the EPA.

The President said during his State of the Union address that if Congress won't act soon to protect future generations that he would direct the Cabinet to come up with executive actions he said we can take in terms of pollution and prepare…

The CEO of the company that was to build the plant stated that the plant, he said, is a victim of the EPA's concerted effort to stifle solid fuel energy facilities in the United States.