Well, but keep in mind too, Mr. Secretary, you know that coalminers average age is going to be in their 50s.
The first newspaper I got when I got back there was, dark day for miners. They just announced that 2,268 coalmining jobs...
Just in 3 years. Three years 45 percent of our coalminers are looking for work.
So my first question of two questions would be to the coal industry to reverse this decline?
Even though FERC has said that--and they have testified before us--the concern that they have is that we are going to ha...
we look at Europe and we see how some policies over there in which countries like Germany have made decisions to elimina...
we have infrastructure needs. And it is very difficult to get permits, it takes years, and so as we are shutting down co...
Remember, a third of the hospitals could very well go under if they have to make these payments.
I hope you understand, this kind of smacks of bullying on the part of CMS to rural hospitals.
I think it is important to set realistic targets and goals that do push us to improvement.
We have been given the runaround. I have never seen so many fingers pointing in different directions.
This is going to be an incredible hindrance for these hospitals to provide medical care in rural areas of West Virginia.
if you don't have the infrastructure Lifeline is maybe nice in theory but meaningless in practice.
I am supportive of targeting funds to unserved areas, and, you know, that is important.
I would prefer avoiding imposition of a hard cap that, per se, would require cutting off subsidies to those that otherwi...
sitting back and being reactive and then debating it for six months hoping for on-hundred percent consensus among 28 cou...
What's the end game this time? Is it going to repeat what we've done before? Are we going to get bogged down for 10 year...
We have to have a much tougher, much stronger vetting process, or--they don't want to relax that at all.
