But in order to keep them viable and growing, you have to make sure that we are taking care of communities at the same time.
Over the past 8 years on this committee, we've heard a lot of comments in hearings about the--our aging coal and nuclear fleet.
I've got a power plant in Pleasants County, West Virginia. It's a 1,300 megawatt--1.3 gigawatts of power.
I introduced the Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act with Senator Casey and a few others.
The visits to West Virginia and going underground, I think, does really make you realize what a tough job coalmining is.
I am concerned about some of the proposed rollbacks. I know the funding has been increased, but some of the rollbacks of the safety measures...
I was one of the 12 Democratic cosponsors along with 12 Republican cosponsors for a major fix on healthcare.
Since the beginning of 2017, 19 miners have died in America, coalminers. Ten of them have been in my State and Senator Capito's State of Wes...
The miners in West Virginia, and all over this country, have done the heavy lifting for our country.
The average coalminer, or most of them, are widows who are receiving these pensions, only $595 a month.
It is very disturbing because the President has proposed cutting this $45 million from Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners.
The other thing we have is the Dislocated Worker Grants to help fight the opioid epidemic, and you know it is just a horrible tragedy on our...
the President's budget would mean that millions of workers, including dislocated coalminers and veterans, could lose access to these critica...
the Registered Apprenticeship program is a top priority of mine, which is why I am very pleased we were able to increase the funding by over...
It is critical that Federal dollars are focused where there is strong evidence and a return on investment rather than on duplicative systems...
I applaud you for these grants, and I urge you to bring one of those pilot programs to West Virginia.
I can guarantee you, the black lung disease will continue to increase. This is the only way we had to fight that and to try to stop it.
Corridor H is a corridor that John Kennedy made happen and I'm taking you back a ways.
