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Mike Enzi

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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.

Quotes by year · 1997–20191,265 total · peak 2010 (247)
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Jun 13, 2016

There are solutions out there, but we are not doing much for them.

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Jun 13, 2016

I agree with you and hope that we can get the storage of energy solved.

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Jun 13, 2016

We get whatever we are willing to pay for, we should not pick winners and losers, and we are holding back innovators.

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May 17, 2016

We need it. That's how we can show how our kids are being shortchanged and what they need to be able to get equitable access.

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May 17, 2016

I think the policy we were able to get done in this bill validates that students with disabilities have a lot of ability.

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May 17, 2016

I understand the forced transfer of teachers sounds OK to individuals in this administration that don't understand States like Wyoming or Wisconsin.

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May 17, 2016

I'm hearing from my State that the proposed action by the Department of Education would cause the forced transfer of public school teachers across our county and maybe even the State.

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May 17, 2016

Wyoming doesn't need the Federal Government telling it how to provide equalized education for all students.

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May 17, 2016

It's important that we implement it as it was written, and we're in charge of presiding over that.

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May 17, 2016

The actions of the U.S. Department of Education that they've taken over the last few months on a number of issues is of grave concern to me and the people that I represent.

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Apr 19, 2016

I would also like to highlight the National Resource Center for Women and Retirement as a highly successful program run by the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement--known to most as ``WISER''-- a nonprofit organization dedicated to…

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Apr 12, 2016

It is long past time for a serious, constructive conversation about how we fix our broken budget process.

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Feb 10, 2016

I think you're seeing an opening for bipartisanship on an ACA initiative called section 1332.

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Feb 10, 2016

It's time to move Medicare away from a one-size-fits-all approach and begin doing more to take into account the individual needs of patients with chronic diseases.

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Feb 10, 2016

Congress has a responsibility to take Medicare's historic guarantee and reinforce it for a new generation of Americans.

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Feb 10, 2016

Making the expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit permanent as part of last year's tax deal is right up there with the ACA as some of the biggest anti-poverty achievements in decades.

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Feb 10, 2016

I introduced the Family Stability and Kinship Care Act to prevent traumatic foster care stays by helping parents keep their children safely at home.

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Feb 2, 2016

One proposal that I have heard out there--and I do not know who it was from--was that if students complete their college degree and there is not a job in that field, they should be able to sue the Federal Government for forgiveness of…

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Feb 2, 2016

I had recently written a joint letter to the Secretary of Education about the Department's plan to issue a final rule on Federal student loans.

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Feb 2, 2016

I hope the majority next year will restore this tradition, no matter who is President and no matter which party controls the Senate.

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Feb 2, 2016

The President has a huge influence. He is one third of our structure of Government.

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Feb 2, 2016

It would be real helpful if it were on a disk so it would be searchable.

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Feb 2, 2016

What we need to find is that middle ground of the 80 percent, and we can get it done.

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Feb 2, 2016

Neither side is going to get 100 percent. I have got this 80-percent rule that I have worked under where there is usually common ground of about 80 percent.

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Feb 2, 2016

It is time for a better budget process, one that maximizes values received from taxpayer dollars.

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