The United States of America has been one of the principal foot-draggers in this entire effort.
On June 6, 2012, just a few weeks ago on the 68th anniversary, I had the honor along with Senator Lieberman, who is a co-sponsor of the legi...
They know very well this is a war on coal.
It certainly was not the intention of Congress to change the business model for the American economy.
If I thought my house was making me sick, I would leave.
I am one of maybe three or four people in Congress that have a construction background, and I have dealt with permitting agencies for 40 som...
If it were science, then let's build on the science.
Unfortunately, we've been here before--in 1999 a federal Judge halted mining at the Dal-Tex site where the Spruce permit is located.
Coal mining--particularly surface mining such as proposed at Spruce--can provide us jobs today and possibilities for tomorrow.
I am asking that you don't allow the EPA to destroy the industry that provides us the revenue to get to that next level.
But the fact that there are so many people, 70 million people, in Medicaid, and millions and millions of children in the Children's Health I...
I do not accept that. Tell me why you think you are right on that.
What I like about that is, that will do more to cause the treatment of Medicare to be scrutinized than anything else and will save a lot of ...
What concerns me greatly is the medical community's inability to try new things that they have not tried in the hopes that they might work.
If you don't use all of your resources. Try to keep your prices competitive with the world energy prices then we're going to be in a tremend...
Can you all find that balance?
My concern would be this in competing with our economic challengers from China and industrial worlds that are--
What I'm saying is we'll be the first Nation in history not to use its resources to its own benefit, to all of its resources.
