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Latest Answers http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/%2A/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en We need to provide from the energy point with energy self-sufficiency. Wyoming is the No.1 coal producer in the United States. Number one in uranium. Number two for natural gas, so we've done a considerable amount for the energy need of the nation. I'm going to continue to work to make sure Wyoming is part of that picture. Also we have incredible renewable sources, like the wind. I'm working for renewables as well. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-need-provide-energy-point-energy-self-sufficiency.-wyoming-no.1-coal-producer-united-stat http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-need-provide-energy-point-energy-self-sufficiency.-wyoming-no.1-coal-producer-united-stat#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:02 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1456 at http://askyourlawmaker.org It’s important that we once again restore America’s ability to build nuclear power plants. We’ve lost that now. We have stopped the production of these plants, so to speak, for almost two decades. So it’s time to recognize that it’s a safe form of energy. It produces nearly zero CO2 compared to a coal-fired plant. Zero. Right now, we rely on nuclear power for about 20 percent of our energy. I’d like to see in the next decade or 15 years, perhaps that 20 percent can go as high as 30 or 35 percent. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-important-we-once-again-restore-america%E2%80%99s-ability-build-nuclear-power-plants.-we%E2%80%99ve-los http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-important-we-once-again-restore-america%E2%80%99s-ability-build-nuclear-power-plants.-we%E2%80%99ve-los#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:03:22 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1451 at http://askyourlawmaker.org So the point is to make coal to liquid clean and sequestration complete. It's going to take billions and billions of dollars and it has to be done by the federal government. It has to be a Manhattan project, but it's much more important. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/so-point-make-coal-liquid-clean-and-sequestration-complete.-it%2526%2523039%3Bs-going-take-billions-an http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/so-point-make-coal-liquid-clean-and-sequestration-complete.-it%2526%2523039%3Bs-going-take-billions-an#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:49:58 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1448 at http://askyourlawmaker.org It all comes from Hollywood, from the far left, and the ones who are the same as the extremist animal right activists and people who bomb construction sites, but it's a very well funded extreme group. That's why the politicians are inclined to act like they are supporting it. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it-all-comes-hollywood%2C-far-left%2C-and-ones-who-are-same-extremist-animal-right-activists-and http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it-all-comes-hollywood%2C-far-left%2C-and-ones-who-are-same-extremist-animal-right-activists-and#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:26:35 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1446 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Well, first I don’t think it was just that referendum caused the change. I believe the state legislature on the House side or the Speaker of the House proffered a motion that came over to the Senate, and the Democrats in the Senate wanted a paper trail measure added to it with reference to the change of the date. So the change of the date took place inside the legislature with the Governor’s approval and not on a state-wide referendum. But most assuredly the fact of the previous primary, the fact of the optical scan and other machines had a hand it, but the decision was more a political decision than one based on just on the machines.  http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell%2C-first-i-don%2526amp%3Brsquo%3Bt-think-it-was-just-referendum-caused-change.-i-believe Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:15 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1429 at http://askyourlawmaker.org What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that’s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it’s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.Reporter Todd Zwillich: I don’t know if it was caucus wide, but the platform of some Democrats was to get people bought into that program before this upcoming election. Why hasn’t Congress managed to loosen some of the reigns on FEHBP so far?Wyden: There are a number of questions about what some of the costs would be, and that is why I thought it was important to address the changes that drive the behavior in American health care. And then you do that, we now have proof from the Congressional Budget Office, the independent experts, that for the amount of money you spend today, all Americans can have choices like their Members of Congress have, and I think that is what the driving part of this whole discussion is all about when it comes to Members of Congress and federal workers.*NOTE:** Sen. Ron Wyden is a member of Finance Committee and sponsor of the Healthy Americans Act, which proposes to enroll individuals in FEHBP http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwhat-americans-want-make-sure-they-have-choices-their-members-congress-have.-member Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:48:28 -0500 Todd Zwillich 1422 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Number one, they’re bad enough that it’s not worth wasting our time impeaching them and if we were to have impeached them we should have done it five years ago.  To do it at the end of their term would be that we would get nothing else done and it wouldn’t mean anything. We impeached them through these reports like in the intelligence community phase I; phase II.  I mean everything that comes out, this morning’s papers, the political appointment of lawyers in the justice department. I mean they are impeached, just not legally. But in American History they are impeached. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bnumber-one%2C-they%2526amp%3Brsquo%3Bre-bad-enough-it%2526amp%3Brsquo%3Bs-not-worth-wasting-our-time- Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:28:35 -0500 Robin Wright 1411 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Well, to begin with the military spending as a percentage of the federal budget is less than it used to be. The biggest part of the federal spending is entitlement spending, that’s 60 percent and military spending represents about 15 percent. So I would think their question should have been: “Should we cut domestic spending in non-military accounts?” Since the first obligation of a federal government is to defend the country. Matt Laslo: But it seems like everyone is afraid of entitlements – do you see any political will…? Gregg: Well, we’re gonna have to face up to them because they are going to overwhelm our capacity to pay for them pretty soon.**NOTE***: Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell%2C-begin-military-spending-percentage-federal-budget-less-it-used-be.-biggest-pa Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:59:43 -0500 Matt Laslo 1403 at http://askyourlawmaker.org