. >> thank you by the next question from chris clements of wyoming public radio. senator barrasso or spofford to administer. >> recently you, senator barrasso's companion bills in congress that would that power plants to irrigation district with the power plant is located within the boundaries of the wind reservation. some eastern shoshone tribe members have said they were never consulted by wyoming's federal leadership about this conveyance it. in december of last year you called this deal a quote when/win situation for the american people. senator, do you still think it's a win/win situation given the shoshone tribe is said they opponents? >> it's a win-win for the people. it's a hydropower plant. it's about the size of one half football fields. it's a fairly small piece of land for this and federal building on a power plant that's ready to be destroyed, paid for by the government. it's basically not in use for the last 15 years. the people who live right there get back into use. make sure the power from there can be used locally. we understood the bureau talked

claire mcfarland and chris clements. now, ground rules that candidates have agreed to ahead of time. the debate is scheduled to last no more than 60 minutes, two minutes for an opening statement in alphabetical order. candidates will be questioned in order by the panelists. each candidate as the new question will have two minutes to respond and the other will have 90 seconds to respond to the same question. the original candidate will have 30 seconds for rebuttal or follow-up if desired. if the candidate were to fall off topic the moderator may allow a candidate to respond if a candidate is attacked personally. i beseech us not to have to go there. for each candidate to respond to the topics presented by the questions we ask them. the debate will be concluded with a two minute closing statement from the candidates speaking in reverse order from the opening statements. the candidate can see a red, yellow, green timing light. yellow will illuminate with 30 seconds time. they must end when the light turns red and they will

but the house has the purse strings. >> thank you by the next question from chris clements of wyomingor barrasso or spofford to administer. >> recently you, senator barrasso's companion bills in congress that would that power plants to irrigation district with the power plant is located within the boundaries of the wind reservation. some eastern shoshone tribe members have said they were never consulted by wyoming's federal leadership about this conveyance it. in december of last year you called this deal a quote when/win situation for the american people. senator, do you still think it's a win/win situation given the shoshone tribe is said they opponents? >> it's a win-win for the people. it's a hydropower plant. it's about the size of one half football fields. it's a fairly small piece of land for this and federal building on a power plant that's ready to be destroyed, paid for by the government. it's basically not in use for the last 15 years. the people who live right there get back into use. make sure the power from there can be used locally. we understood the bureau talked to th