John Barrasso

Do you agree that streamlining is critical in terms of speeding up the needed investment in our Nation's highways?

Unfortunately, the Administration has done the opposite by proposing to cut permitting agencies' budgets.

Doing so would potentially put our communities at risk and can deprive the residents who would be most affected by these projects from making their voices heard.

I am disappointed though by the degree to which the Administration is focusing on sweeping rollbacks to our Nation's bedrock environmental protections.

I think we might want to rethink that.

I think the math of the Administration's plan does not add up.

Rural communities need to have an equal seat at the table as we address infrastructure needs.

We need to speed up project delivery.

The time has come to make a significant investment in our roads, bridges, ports, and water systems.

I would just say, this is a FBI decision. It is in the President's budget, so one would expect an Administration to have interest in the final decision of how the budgeting process is made.

I think that the witnesses have tried to answer to the best of their abilities, and the question has been asked and answered a number of times.

Under the revised plan, the FBI is going to be forced to move the entire Hoover headquarters operation to temporary swing space locations.

It is disturbing to all the members of the Committee here when you say they aren't costs the Committee has ever seen before.

Sadly, the Administration's response to my questions, to our questions to date has not been satisfactory.

This isn't what accountable government looks like.

This is unacceptable.

In September of last year, the Mountain West Transmission Group announced their intent to join the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) of the regional energy market.

I am concerned this is an outdated law, and significantly raises cost for consumers.

I agree Congress should act to streamline and improve the processes of excessive unnecessary delays.

We have approved the nomination of Mr. Wheeler to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, which will be reported to the full Senate for approval.

I call this business meeting to order.

I think at the end of the answer to your previous question you talked about how much time it takes to do some of this Federal paperwork.

The RFS will undoubtedly severely harm the State of Delaware, the entire Middle Atlantic Region, and the national economy.

I am happy to say that, last week, the delay in implementation of the WOTUS rule became final.

For far too long the people who feed, clothe, and house our nation have been burdened by policies that fail to reflect on the ground realities.