Let me just note for the record, Madam Chairman, that when we refer to China, we are not referring to the people of China.

Should we permit a government that obviously is even an anti-democratic government, whether we call it China or whether we call it Nazis, or whoever they are, should we permit them to finance educational forays into the American…

We should never have anything in our public education system financed by a foreign government who is fundamentally hostile to the values that America represents.

I would invite any of you to come on up to Paint Branch Elementary School in Prince George's County...

Our greatest ally in that struggle are the people of China because they are the ones that are on the front lines of this struggle.

I guess if there was a regime that still had big pictures of Adolph Hitler around, I guess there would be a lot of people who would be naturally suspicious...

The motive of the Chinese Government in trying to put these Confucian centers all over the United States, I have to assume that they are not just doing it because they are benevolent and love us and like us, but maybe they have some other…

Absent the subpoena power and absent some kind of whistleblower protection, what you described here this morning is just a continued cat and mouse game.

I don't want a silver bullet, I want an effective tool.

Thank you for your leadership in response to this tragedy, and rebuilding the resources in MSHA so we don't have to go through this again hopefully ever again.

So once again, we are left here because of some glitch in the law, some failure to get from one point to the other.

If that means legislation, and I believe it does, then legislation should be passed.

What happened at UBB is absolutely criminal.

If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything, anything other than run coal such as build overcasts, you need to ignore them and run coal.

The families of miners are sick of watching lower level employees take the fall for upper management.

We have consistently said that people like Don Blankenship, and I have called for him to be led away in chains and locked up in jail because that is where he deserves to be.

I want to commend you, Chairman Smith, for your dedication to promoting adherence to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as ranking member, and to serve alongside of you and your leadership that you've had for so many years on these issues.