I come today to visit on the floor of the Senate because since last November the President has been trying to convince the American people that he has a plan to restart our economy. He was in North Carolina yesterday with his council to…

I come to the floor again today, as I have week after week since the health care law has been passed, with a doctor's second opinion about the health care law. As you know, I have practiced medicine for 25 years in Wyoming, taking care of…

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute and coauthor of a book called ``Why ObamaCare Is Wrong For America.'' Having read the book, I will tell my colleagues a lot of the things I have been talking about during the debate…

I rise today to submit for the Record an article written by Karen Budd-Falen and published May 28, 2011, in the Wyoming Livestock Journal. The article's title is ``Leveling the Playing Field: Support for the Grazing Improvement Act of…

It's an important piece of legislation to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign sources of critical minerals.

China now controls an estimated 97 percent of the global production of rare Earth elements.

China's critical minerals strategy is clear. It wants to give itself a competitive advantage in manufacturing.

I think it's an important issue and it's going to have a major impact on this.

Do you agree with that?

So does that include lowering the mortality rates for children as well?

The most important problem facing America today, in my opinion, is actually high unemployment and a weak economy.

Today, the crisis is the economy and jobs.

So the letter says that you, the American Lung Association has been paid millions and millions of money from the taxpayers, from the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as this so-called Stimulus Act.

Do you think it is appropriate for the American Lung Association to take money from the Government to lobby the Government, to sue as well?

I think we are pretty clear on the triggers of an asthma attack for somebody who is already asthmatic.

Is that actually being fair and honest with the American people?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

But if EPA is making policies this way, they could then make decisions that needlessly cost jobs under the guise of trying to say they are protecting the public health or environment?

Clean air is always important, and at times it has been paramount.

High gas prices are causing American families pain at the pump.

I believe that coal is America's most affordable, available, reliable and secure source of energy.

The American Alternative Fuels Act breaks down the barriers to alternative fuels.

This is an issue of economic security as well as national security.

Promoting alternative fuels for the Defense Department will safeguard the military from price spikes.

These irresponsible tactics overwhelm permitting agencies and leave ranchers at risk of losing their grazing permits.