If there is nothing else right now that this country demands it is affordable, reliable and dependable energy.
I am a big believer in ARPA-E and what it can do.
Secretary Moniz has offered to come to West Virginia, and he will be the first official in that type of environmental re...
This Government has not stepped forward, this Administration, and said oh, wait a minute, I cannot replace 34, 35, 36 pe...
Gang, let me tell you we are all in this together. That is all I can tell you.
Earlier this year I worked with Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, who is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committ...
the VA to house the children of homeless veterans in transitional housing programs.
If we could do that which we have influence over, it could basically change the direction of how we treat chronic pain.
In my little State of West Virginia, from 2007 to 2012, over 200 million pills, opioids, have been shipped to my State; ...
I am saying, we have got to go to alternative pain methods.
I am finding that the VA does not always have or offer good alternatives.
Just in my State. In a 5-year period--I only have 1.85 million people in my State.
It is the opioids, prescription of these opioids, painkillers, and I am sure you all are very much aware of it. We are b...
We use 80 percent of the opioids that are produced in the world.
This did not happen when we were youth. OK?
I have used up my time, but this is such an important topic.
We have double the mortality rate as far as opioid overdoses in military VA than the national average.
We are working on it.
