Mike Enzi

I am hoping we can get that through this committee and through the Senate.

I have had some experience with people in Wyoming that have gone through that kind of a process, too, and are now spreading the word.

Becoming a businessperson takes a whole basket of skills, and not every person who has worked 30 years as an engineer is suddenly equipped to become a marketer for his or her own services

Too many Americans are suffering in this economy, and far too many are suffering because of some policy being carried out by the Administration.

This Administration's energy policy is actively slowing and preventing job creation.

I hope my colleagues will agree that an average 9.5 percent unemployment rate since May 2009 is unacceptable.

There is no doubt that many, many people are suffering. Over 14 million Americans are unemployed.

While Senators disagree at times about specific nominees, we can all agree that without judges in place, our legal system slows down

I want to thank the Chairman and Senator Grassley and all the staffs for scheduling this hearing

I am pleased the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving quickly and thoroughly on this nomination

I want to thank Senator Burr for his continued leadership on this critically important issue.

We have made tremendous progress in the past 5 years to ensure that we are prepared to meet all known and unknown hazards that threaten our citizens.

Some in the last couple of days have called the Boeing complaint a routine administrative procedure. But the New York Times called it 'highly unusual' and the 'strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor…

If we are talking about saving money, this is how to do it.

How will the program avoid paying for the things that the hospitals are already planning to do?

It kind of seems to me like that would be like assuming that I would grow to 6 feet four inches and be able to run the 40 in 4 seconds flat, and therefore be a starting linebacker for the Redskins next year.

I'm deeply skeptical, however, of any government initiative that claims it can save 60,000 lives and $35 billion over the next 3 years by improving the quality of care provided to patients.

Somehow federal appropriations, whether it's earmarked funds or whatever, need to be secured in order for rehabilitation to continue

Had it not been for the efforts of the Water Resource Control Board... through efforts with Senator Enzi's office, these funds that we're currently using for rehabilitation on the reservation wouldn't even be here.

Once again through the efforts of the Wind River Water Resource Control Board in conjunction with the efforts of Senator Mike Enzi, a federal appropriation of 3.72 million dollars was secured in 2005 and 2006 as matching funds for 3.5…

You realize the longer it takes for these documents to get out, the more that it looks like MSHA knew more than they did, and could have done more to prevent what happened; and that there's some kind of an effort to cover up with the whole…

I stand ready to re-engage in that process with partners interested in forming achievable goals, sharing information, consulting all affected stakeholders and reaching agreement rather than making political points.

We need to ensure that those efforts continue.

I don't intend, in West Virginia to have one miner in an unsafe condition; nor should a family expect them not to return home safely.

To honor the 71 miners whose lives were lost last year, we must rededicate ourselves to building a safer future.