We have to take care of a little bit of necessary business.
The appropriations situation was so uncertain that Senators Schumer and Roberts asked us to pass a short-term, seven-mon...
You've got to be everywhere all the time, no excuses.
This committee has several items on our agenda today.
I appreciate you coming and speaking to me directly. I do appreciate that. I'm considering everything we spoke about.
Coal provides more electricity than any other single source in the United States today.
I'm concerned that this is short sighted.
There cannot be back door taxes on coal or coal-generated electricity.
But we need a willing partner. We've not had that willing partner, sir.
Every utility operator today has told me they are forced to make fuel switching because of the uncertainty with the EPA.
Even by EIA's own estimation coal is going to be the dominant factor of producing electricity for the next 30 to 40 year...
Basically the goal was to have energy independence, truly energy independence.
I approved the largest coal plant that was ever built in Colorado.
We need some friends. We need some people that will just look at it in a more level playing field.
My focus in the Senate and the committee has been on an all in, an all of the above, energy policy which I just think yo...
You're taking the only affordable, reliable, dependable power you have and they're scrubbing that because of an idealist...
We're getting the living crap beat out of us by this Administration, my Administration being a Democrat.
I just back from the Bakken at the invitation of Senator Hoeven.
