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Mike Enzi is a former U.S. Senator from Wyoming, serving from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Enzi was known for his work on various committees, including the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Throughout his tenure, he focused on fiscal responsibility, education reform, and healthcare issues. Enzi was recognized for his collaborative approach, often working across party lines to achieve legislative goals.
I am pleased we have had the opening statements that we have had so far, and particularly I am pleased with this colloquy we have just had which shows that we have built some supreme authority into the Presidential position that gives the…
I want to quickly refresh the memory of the Senator from North Carolina. I would not have entered into the time agreement had I known he wasn't listening when I debated the Snowe-DeWine arrangement where I clearly pointed out that it is…
I am not a lawyer; I am an accountant, and I can tell you that this adds up to employers scaling back, even dropping the coverage they now provide. Is this how we propose to protect patients? The problem, at the end of the day, is that…
If I can use their time, under this bill, the $1.2 billion that was appropriated last year would come under the formula for this, which would become the current school foundation construction program. So, yes, the $1.2 billion the Senator…
Answering on their time, of course, as I have said throughout this whole process on the authorization bill, this is an authorizing process, and we have an appropriations process that comes up later. The amount of dollars allocated would be…
I am pleased today to discuss the Better Education for Students and Teachers Act, the BEST Act. We can never have too much debate on education. It is the future of our country. This legislation achieves the simple yet powerful goal of…
We are hoping that adequate information will be given to the Senate for their oversight and their understanding of what is going on. We have always wanted that.
We were trying to get the administration, whatever administration it was, to work more on multilateral controls because everybody agrees that multilateral controls have more impact than unilateral controls. That is why we were encouraging…
It wasn't our intent to make it contradictory, but it was language that was already in there. The request was to override those sections, and we did that by putting in another one. Perhaps there could be a way to address this.
The criteria you mentioned of foreign availability is current law. That is what the President is forced to do at the moment.
We had the language in section 212 in the versions when we were discussing it before. The President could use that. It is a mechanism. We thought that that provided Presidential control, even before we had our discussions. But we were…
Is the Senator aware that we are not doing away with the control list and any item on the list continues to stay on the list unless it goes through the process? Is the Senator aware that we have added country tiering so that rogue states…
While I think it is an excellent idea to have a target date, there are a lot of staff who are very competent on this who ought to be involved in putting something together so we have a work plan, and there is need for basic time for…
The Senator is correct. The reason we can't wait 60 or 90 days is that the CRA is time limited. Sixty working days from the time the thing was published is how long we have to reverse this rule. So we are put under the rule that was passed…
I would like to ask the prime sponsor of the CHIMP Act if it is his intention that the federal share of funding for establishing and operating the national chimpanzee sanctuary system is to come out of NIH's budget?
I would like to address the type of accounting we have where we are kind of fudging some things that will cost future generations their Social Security unless we take some action now. We also need to take some action in the area of paying…
I can assure you that this issue is of paramount importance for many small farmers in our states, and we look forward to working with you and the rest of our colleagues to address their situation in the near future.
Similarly, in my state of Wyoming, we have close to one hundred alfalfa seed growers who may lose their farms without timely assistance of some form. These growers are owed close to $4.5 million on seed they have already delivered. Many of…
We wanted to draw the Chairman's attention to a crisis amongst farmers that produce forage grass seed and turf grass seed in a number of Western states. Due to the recent bankruptcy filing of AgriBioTech, one of the Nation's largest…
If I can answer the question, in the State of the Union speech, the President said we are going to use the Social Security surplus to pay off the national debt. Over a 10-year period, we are going to have $1.8 trillion in money we can use…
No, it keeps the IOUs the same. The Social Security surplus will grow; the debt stays the same. Then the interest gets added to the public debt because, again, it cannot be taken out. It has to be invested in more bonds. That is part of…
No. If you paid the Social Security portion of the debt, you are really taking money out of the bank and putting it right back into the piggy bank. It has to be reloaned. There is no other alternative. Until there is reform on it, there is…
The SAFE Act's proactive approach to achieving safer workplaces is revolutionary because it empowers both OSHA and the employer.
Today, as Americans head off to work, 17 of them will die and 18,600 of them will be injured on the job.
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