I hope we have a chance to go to the Coal River Valley in West Virginia, because notwithstanding what the gentlemen here...
I'm going to ask Mr. Issa if one of the places we go would be to go to Coal River Valley to hear what the people have to...
I think, again, the point that's made in this hearing is that we want to create a balance between protecting jobs and pr...
I think the American public really is interested in that kind of a direction because we had a recent poll by the Natural...
That is our major concern.
I have to say to my friends on this committee, you know, I saw this documentary about, you know, what's happening in Wes...
I want to acknowledge my friend from Pennsylvania, who is a very strong advocate of business.
Everyone in this room today shares a common desire to put America back to work.
Ultimately, if this bill becomes law, it would mean more pollution, more dirty water, more health problems for Americans...
Not only is mountaintop mining--removal mining environmentally harmful, but it's actually a job destroyer, not a job cre...
But it won't put Appalachian miners back to work. The economics of coal work against that.
I'm deeply troubled by the fact that the House passed the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 yesterday.
Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is mandated to 'restore and maintain the chemical, physic...
Scientific research demonstrates that mountaintop removal mining is devastating to both the environment and the health o...
But we want clean water. We want clean air. And I would just say to my friend, that when you see--I understand you have ...
What has this committee done to simply some of the forms? Nothing. So isn't it time for a new approach?
And let us also acknowledge that Congress is sometimes captured by vested interests.
But I am afraid that we are falling into a rut here that is going to be the detriment not only of this committee and thi...
