Mike Enzi
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"Michael Bradley "Mike" Enzi" is an American politician who is the Seniority in the United States Senate/senior List of United States Senators from Wyoming/United States Senator from Wyoming, serving since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party.

Raised in Thermopolis, Wyoming, Enzi attended George Washington University and the University of Denver. He expanded his father's shoe store business in Gillette, Wyoming/Gillette before being elected mayor of Gillette in 1974. In the late 1970s he worked in the United States Department of the Interior. He served as a state legislature (United States)/state legislator in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991 and the Wyoming Senate from 1991 to 1997. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked as an accountant and executive director in the energy industry.

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Simply put, if Congress continues to allow remote sales taxes to go uncollected and electronic commerce continues to grow as predicted, other taxes, such as income and property taxes, will have to be increased to offset the lost revenue to state and local governments.

None of us wants this premium ultimately to be enacted into law.

If we transform health insurance to a market where small employers and family-owned businesses can demand better benefits at better prices, insurance companies would be forced either to keep up with the competition, or lose their market share.

It's my job to invite all of you to come to Wyoming and Yellowstone Park where we hope you get a glimpse of the grizzly. We hope you do not have an encounter with the grizzly.

What I am hoping we can do in the conference committee is to find another way that is not the credit rating way.

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Today's vote is the first major step in 15 years toward more affordable health insurance options for small business and working families. The people who make up the bedrock of our economy - small, family owned businesses, have demanded change.

We were able to reduce spending through changes in the way lenders operate. But at the same time, we shielded the direct impact to students, and actually increased student opportunities.

Had the airlines not had a crisis, I'm not sure we would have been here today debating pensions.