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September 2012

September 20, 2012

Senate majority asleep at the wheel

No budget, no jobs and mountain of debt

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said today the current Senate majority and the president’s idea of leadership is regulation, red tape and bills with good titles, but bad substance. Enzi’s full statement in below:

“The president, the administration and the Senate majority have failed to govern during a crucial time for our nation. There is a willingness to kick our problems down the road with the hopes that the next election will suddenly inspire action. Rome burned while Nero fiddled. We have had enough fiddling. The president’s answer to jobs in the economy was to have his failed budget. Three times it was voted on without a single vote in favor, not even a single Democrat in favor. Over 23 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Government regulations and red tape stunt business growth. That’s not leadership. That’s being asleep at the wheel. Their answer to jobs is a bill with a good title and a poison pill that comes right to the floor, and it’s set up so the poison pill can’t be amended out and then they wonder why the bill doesn’t pass. That’s politics. That’s not legislating. What’s their plan for America? We have yet to see one. Lack of a budget shows they don’t have a plan, and inaction remains the status quo. Republicans are prepared to lead today and in the future.”

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., gave a speech on the Senate floor concerning the 11th anniversary of September 11, 2001.
August 2012
An August 2012 interview with K2 TV in Casper, Wyoming. Topics include energy policy, Liz Cheney, and the Romney-Ryan ballot.

August 2, 2012 comments on long-term, efficient tax reform for the Senate Finance Committee.

I have been working on this sales tax fairness issue since joining the U.S. Senate in 1997. As a former small business owner, it is important to level the playing field for all retailers -- in-store, catalog, and online -- so an outdated rule for sales tax collection does not adversely impact small businesses and Main Street retailers. As a state legislator in Wyoming, we did not pass laws that burden the people who pay property tax, hire residents and participate in community events while telling those businesses from out of state that we want them to have our money. Take money from the local community, but you don't have to do anything in return? We never intended to give out-of-state businesses an advantage over those businesses that are a part of the community. Yet that is exactly where we sit unless Congress allows states the opportunity to fix it if they so choose.
July 2012

July 10, 2012

President signs drug safety bill

Enzi says bill passed because senators went about it the right way

The president signed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187) this week. 
June 2012
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on the new health care law.

June 26, 2012

Harkin, Enzi applaud passage of bipartisan Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act

Lifesaving legislation now goes to President Obama for his signature

Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, heralded final passage of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187), bipartisan HELP Committee legislation that would ensure that the FDA can approve drugs and medical devices, save biomedical industry jobs, protect patient access to new therapies, and preserve America’s global leadership in biomedical innovation.  The legislation, which was approved by the Senate by a vote of 92 to 4, now goes to President Obama for his signature.

June 20, 2012

Senators demand cease-fire in the coal war

Regulations continue Administration's war on nation's most abundant energy source

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is supporting a congressional resolution, S.J. Res. 37, that would prevent the EPA from striking a fatal blow to the coal industry.
During a hearing today on the 40-year anniversary of Title IX, the groundbreaking law that ensured equal educational opportunities for women, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said although there has been remarkable progress, America must not rest on past successes.  Enzi said Title IX is one of the most important civil rights laws passed in Washington and is an example of what Congress can do when it works together to do what is right.
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