we plucked this arbitrary 10-year number out of the air and put it into the statute.
That's one of the--what I plan to do--and I hope we can get this--is to amend that 10-year thing.
I wish it wasn't on this point--mainly that there is a pretty complete sense on the part of the fishermen in Massachusetts that they face a ...
I think the catch is the essential issue.
Your testimony cherry-picks what looks good and leaves out what's not good, and that's not building trust.
Fact 1: Underground mines create over 50% more jobs than mountaintop removal mines.
Let us not forget, President Ronald Reagan, your president, my president, in 1983 created the Stream Buffer Zone Rule because he realized th...
This committee now shares that responsibility because President George W. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, trashed the Reagan SBZ rule just b...
Fact 3: Historically, the total number of mining jobs has fallen in places where the proportion of coal mined by mountaintop removal has inc...
Fallacy: More stringent enforcement of the Clean Water Act by the EPA and other federal agencies is creating an economic crisis in Central A...
Fact: The number of mining jobs in Appalachia has increased since the start of the recession.
Fact 2: Unemployment in counties where a high proportion of coal is mined by mountaintop removal is higher than in counties where coal is mi...
Fallacy: Stopping the destruction of Appalachian mountains and streams would cost jobs.
This committee would serve The People well if its actions are based upon fact and not coal industry deception and often outright deceit.
I think that timing is everything in politics, just as it is in love.
I think the timing is everything in politics just as it is in love.
It is a repeat, we thought, I think most of us thought that after the awful spectacle that surrounded the debt ceiling vote that people in W...
But the truth is they're not, they're not doing the people's work. That's the real point.
