I still have a lot of concerns about that stimulus money, how it's been spent and the justification for additional budget at this time.

One issue that is of great concern to me is the use that you have heard in previous statements from my side of the aisle with use of the Fish and Wildlife Service as a climate change agency.

I agree with Senator Inhofe about your qualifications, your commitment.

I have introduced legislation which would remove the wolf from the Endangered Species list and return it to State management.

Senator Barrasso is correct; there is a deep feeling in the west that Washington just doesn't get it.

It is time for a change of course; it is time to restore the trust between the people of my State and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As Senator Barrasso and Senator Baucus have both mentioned previously, the Fish and Wildlife Service has tried twice to de-list the gray wolf in the Northern Rocky Mountains, and courts unfortunately have disagreed with us in those cases.

It is an example of the type of unconstitutional policymaking at the agencies that has everyone on both sides of the Hill clamoring for regulatory reform.

There is a lot of discussion about what the historic range of the gray wolf has been.

there are those folks around the country--and I go home to Wyoming repeatedly; I will be there again tomorrow evening--who are concerned about a $14 trillion debt this country is trying to live with, a deficit this year of $1.5 trillion…

I think the attorneys general are making decisions based on what they believe is in the best interests of the citizens of their State, and they are saying, People of our State have rights, and we have a Constitution, and that Constitution…

I think States ought to have the right to make decisions about the Medicaid mandate, about the individual mandate that requires everyone to buy government-approved health insurance. It is a mandate. Congress is telling people they have to…

Twenty-six States have joined the lawsuit, including my home State of Wyoming which recently joined. New Governors have been elected and sworn into office in January, so five new States have joined the lawsuit, saying, This law isn't…

The people of Wyoming overwhelmingly want the opportunity to remove themselves from the heavy burden of the Obama-passed and supported health care law. There are huge expenses. The Medicaid mandate is huge.

I come today to the Senate floor as a physician who has practiced medicine in Wyoming for a quarter of a century, taking care of the families of Wyoming, and to do what I have done throughout the past year--provide a doctor's second…

What do people want? What do the States want? Flexibility, freedom, and choice. I know that is what people in Wyoming want. We are rugged individuals who want flexibility, freedom, and choice. I think every State ought to have the…

That is why we come to the floor to discuss S. 244. The title is State Health Care Choice Act. That is what it truly is--State health care, and choice. It is a choice to be made by the States about health care because if the American…

Well, of the 2.2 million people who have gotten waivers by the Secretary of Health and Human Services--and, as I say, you need to have friends in high places if you want a waiver, because I know the small business owners in my State, and…

There are things we mutually must do to make it easier and cheaper for people to get the health care they need, the doctors they want, at the price they can afford. Number 1, as my colleague mentioned, make it legal for people to shop…

Seven States have already passed laws or constitutional amendments making it illegal to force someone to buy health insurance.

The President said the same thing in June of 2009 when he visited and spoke to the American Medical Association. So when that issue didn't really come to the floor, as a number of us would have liked, in this health care law that was…

What we are trying to do is actually provide people with the care they need, the doctors they want, at a cost they can afford. Yet, when we look at this health care law that--remember, it was written behind closed doors in spite of the…

I would like to see every citizen in this country get a waiver. I would like every State to have an opportunity to get waivers because last week the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave another 500 new waivers. The total now is 729…

There has been an onslaught of job-crushing regulations emerging from the Environmental Protection Agency over the last 2 years.

Well-qualified independent economists have estimated this will cost the United States in lost foreign investment roughly $100 billion a year and many thousands, thousands of jobs.