Mike Enzi

No Child Left Behind needs to be fixed is that it has become unworkable.

The Department has, in effect, become a national school board.

When working together, we should focus on the 80 percent we can agree on not the 20 percent we do not.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the panel. In my 18 years, that is probably the most punctual panel that I have heard.

We have all seen the faces of those who are in the midst of working to cope with a disaster.

When we provide Federal tax relief for one affected region, all of the Nation's taxpayers ultimately help to pay for it.

We need to use the financial aid we have in a very careful and judicious manner.

As the accountant, I am extremely interested in tax reform.

We may not always agree on every health care bill that comes before us, but we certainly can agree that the health of our young people is vitally important to our health as a Nation.

The CHIP program is a valuable option for children who need health insurance, and I would like us to focus more on the core mission of the program.

The efforts led by Senator Mike Enzi, a Federal appropriation of $3.72M was secured in 2005 and 2006 as matching funds

We encourage this Committee to help move S. 715 forward to help with our further irrigation rehab.

Without the efforts of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes, this phase would not have even taken place.

The speech I need to give now is not one of my favorite speeches. It is a very important speech. There is an old saying we have all heard before: Good help is hard to find. Here is my experience: Good help is not only hard to find, it is…

I don't think he is finished with his unanimous consent request.

If it's worth reacting to, it's sometimes worth over-reacting to.

I'm the accountant in the Senate, and I have a tendency to ask some detailed number questions.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. This has been fascinating.

This has been very enlightening, and there have been some good suggestions for some things that we can do at the Federal level.

How can this possibly happen in America?

There is no greater bipartisan issue than the mutual desire to keep children safe and healthy.

I believe these sentiments hold true particularly for those of this future generation whose outcomes are in danger.

I think the $400 billion in savings that are contained in the budget in Medicare and Medicaid are critically important.

I hope you can commit to me to work with OSM to get a correct interpretation on how the money is to be distributed.

Do you have any kind of an idea of a plan where we can start to get toward a balanced budget?