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

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…

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.

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

I rise today to introduce legislation with Senator Landrieu known as the Voluntary Protection Program Act. This bill will codify the Voluntary Protection Programs, or VPP, expand it to include more small businesses, and incorporate recent…

I would like to congratulate the other accountant in the Senate. It is nice to have additional help with numbers. It will make a tremendous difference. He has had both the business experience and the accounting experience, and he…

I rise to speak about decisions we need to make about cutting spending, decisions we need to make now. The Congress and the White House have not agreed on how much spending needs to be cut or where the cuts need to come from, but at least…

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.

The safety of mining in America will improve because of this accident.

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

The President's decision to allow the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act will kill jobs in Wyoming and throughout the country.

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…

We need to ensure that those efforts continue.

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.

That makes it sound even tougher to get one of these done.

The Health Care Law needs to be repealed and replaced with provisions that will actually lower costs, help the employers and allow Americans to keep the plans they want rather than being forced to buy the plan the government bureaucrats…

I think one of the difficulties, actuarially for the companies, is trying to figure out how much to charge for somebody that can purchase their insurance on the way to the emergency room.

But, they have to do that so far--all their work without the rule.

We're concerned that they could cherry-pick the best risks and that their enrollees could unwittingly be left without important consumer protections provided by State law.

I think it's something that's been lost in the discussion.

That will be a little difficult for them without the rule being in place.

I've got a raft of ideas that I've had there, most of which don't show up in the law at all.

In short, bureaucrats will design the insurance plans that everyone must buy because the authors of the new law believe that government knows what's best for all of us.

It seems to me like if you exclude people, you don't truly have a free market.

The bottom line is that these changes will increase the cost of these plans to employers and their workers.