I was a cosponsor of the Conrad-Gregg deficit commission bill and was pleased that we got one, one way or another.

So it looks like it would put a lot of people out of business and raise prices.

We have been kicking the can down the road and it is time now for action to hold the line on spending.

I did appreciate your comments in the report about when we were doing the tax reform to have transition rules in there.

I want to share with you a story of Thanksgiving that touched my heart. I am doing it just before Christmas to have you think about the effect of holidays on people away from home and especially troops stationed away from home and…

I rise today to explain why I voted against the New START treaty. The U.S. Senate is the deliberative body of Congress. Our forefathers created the Senate so issues of this magnitude are thoroughly considered with all of the facts and with…

I rise today to speak on the nomination of Joe Moore to serve as the U.S. marshal for the district of Wyoming. I was pleased to see that the Senate has given this nomination full and fair consideration. I support Joe Moore's nomination for…

I got an early Christmas present on the day it was expected! On Wednesday, December 15, Allison Quinn McGrady was born to my daughter Emily and husband Mike. I have been able to hold each grandchild on the day they were born. This baby…

At the end of each session of Congress it has long been a tradition in the Senate to take a moment to express our appreciation and say goodbye to those who will not be returning in January for the beginning of the next Congress. One of…

at the end of each session of Congress it has long been a tradition in the Senate to take a moment to express our appreciation and say goodbye to those who will not be returning in January for the beginning of the next Congress. One of…

it is always a bittersweet moment when the end of a session of Congress draws near and it becomes time for us to say goodbye to those of our colleagues who will be returning home at the end of the year. We know we will miss them when the…

I will always think of him as one of the best of my Senate mentors. Over my 14 years in the Senate, I have learned more from him than almost anyone else.

I rise to voice my opposition to S. 3991, the so-called Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act. I have a number of policy and constitutional concerns about this bill, and I have expressed them over the years, but I have never had…

I formerly served as the mayor of Gillette, WY, a city of 20,000 people. As I look around this Chamber there are too few here that have any experience with trying to balance a budget for a city or town, which may explain why this unfunded…

In order to strengthen the defined benefit system, we need a PBGC that can respond and work with the business community.

the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation sends nearly half a billion dollars each month to retirees whose companies' pensions have gone away.

Clearly, the PBGC is facing some rough waters and will continue to face them in the future.

we must undertake reforms that strengthen the PBGC and our retirement system and stay away from the so-called reforms that might politicize or minimize the agency's ability to do its job.

I'm open to legislation to improve the PBGC corporate governance--governance similar to the reforms Congress sought in the private companies in that Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

I rise today to speak about the Johanns amendment that would repeal a provision in the health care reform law that, if not repealed today, will impose significant burdens on small businesses across this country. Repealing this provision…

the Senate is close to passing legislation that includes three water settlements as well as funding to settle the Cobell and Pigford claims. I want to briefly discuss the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act, which is included in the…

I want to talk about the paycheck unfairness bill that is before us. A better title for this bill should be the ``jobs for trial lawyers act.'' I am confident that there is no Member of this Senate who would tolerate paying a woman less…

the United States has one of the best food safety systems in the world. However, even the best of systems have room for improvement. That is why my colleagues and I worked together over the past year to produce a bill that has broad…

the newspaper articles I have submitted for the Record were written by the editorial boards of the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, while the other op ed, written by a guest columnist, appeared in the New York…

If a large company like this can't even provide an accurate list of their students, what is going on?