I agree that climate change is a national security issue, and the evidence that this is the case really is overwhelming.

I'm concerned that this administration is promoting an ideological agenda for the parks, one that will result in reduced public access and increasing maintenance backlogs.

I want to know that you're committed to winter access for snow machines in Yellowstone National Park.

The people of Wyoming are not happy at all about this decision by the administration because we view year-round access to our crown jewels, the crown jewels of our State and of the country, as critical.

Monitoring data from the past four winters shows excellent air quality, few wildlife disturbances, and reduced sound impacts.

Wyoming has a long history with the Department of the Interior and certainly with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

There was mistrust of the Agency by the people in my State, and it has continued.

The President's stimulus package did not cushion the economic blow for working families. It has intensified it.

I think in your testimony you said not only would this bill destroy our economy, our communities, our way of life, but it is also going to make us pay more, pay more, due to it.

This, to me, is not just a missed opportunity, but really a disrespect to the folks of Wyoming who live and work in these forests.

The program crafted by Obama and the Democratic Congress wasn't engineered to maximize its economic impact.

this is, in our opinion, bad legislation.

The Administration promised immediate results, immediate, but that has not turned out to be as the Administration expected.

the Waxman-Markey bill will really change our way of life, you said in terms of at home in Arkansas, in regards to your community in lost jobs and higher energy prices.

I am very concerned about preserving and creating jobs in America and especially in my own State of Wyoming.

I have been saying we want to make energy as clean as we can as fast as we can without raising the costs to American families.

What are farmers and ranchers across the country supposed to think of this logic?

But this Waxman-Markey bill also costs jobs, and Americans want all jobs, not just some.

The Administration says the Waxman-Markey bill will create millions of new jobs.

Do you think this bill can be perfected to the point where energy and input costs would be beneficial to farmers and ranchers? Or do you think that there is no way to do that?

The Waxman-Markey bill is designed to make fossil fuel use more expensive.

I mean, I worry about western ranchers whose operations are heavily dependent on the use of Federal lands.

Vice President Biden acknowledged Administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year.

Well, since the passage of that bill, unemployment has reached 9.5 percent.

So that is another clear concern that we hope we can address in the Senate version.