John Barrasso

Simply being reactive, waiting for disaster to strike, is not a successful strategy. We need proactive forest management.

It is my belief that she is clearly disqualified to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

Earlier this week, Chairman Manchin and I sent a letter to President Biden asking that wildfire mitigation efforts be increased by orders of magnitude.

I want to thank my colleagues here, especially Senators Daines and Heinrich, who worked together to get this important bill enacted into law.

I am deeply troubled with the Biden Administration's massive requested increase for federal spending.

I support robust funding for the agency's wildfire preparedness, suppression, and mitigation efforts.

I want to make Joe Biden a one-half-term president.

Why should taxpayers support borrowing more money from countries like China in order to spend it overseas to international bureaucrats in the name of climate change?

It will affect working Americans, leading to a violation of the President's promise. He said he was not going to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000.

We are facing a $27-trillion debt. The budget requests a billion dollars for the international Climate Change Fund.

Protecting this Russian trap is not in the U.S. national security interest. It is a grave mistake.

There is strong bipartisan opposition on this committee and throughout the entire Senate to President Biden's deliberate failure to sanction all of the entities that are involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Our forests do play, as you just said, a vital role on so many fronts.

Last summer was a devastating wildfire season all across America.

The lack of active forest management has turned many of our nation's forests into tinderboxes.

Healthy forests also sequester significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

In the Senate, I am proud to help lead the bipartisan Rural Health Caucus. This group is committed to ensuring patients in rural America can get access to the care they need.

Will you work with this Committee in ensuring that the Biden Administration supports adequate funding for Western water infrastructure?

I did send a letter to the Secretary so I am looking forward to receiving a reply.

We need to make sure that this is available long-term in terms of the history within the organization of government.

He avoided the three Ds which he described as defeat, death, and disgrace.

I believe we must build more water storage facilities and maintain the ones we have to protect rural economies.

While Wyoming may be landlocked, we have much in common with states that have oil and gas production off of their coasts.

Well, as you talk about summarizing the feedback, really in the interest of transparency and accountability, is the Department going to make the comments submitted for that March 25th virtual forum, are you going to make those all public?

During her confirmation hearing, now Secretary Haaland committed to being transparent and engaging with all stakeholders.