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What kind of inconsistencies are you finding across the Country, and it is very frustrating, especially being from neighboring States and like habitats?

If implemented as Congress intended, the IIJA will facilitate the construction of much-needed energy, industrial, and transportation projects across the Country.

This hearing is particularly important as the committee continues to oversee the implementation of the IIJA.

I think, you know, as we pass the IIJA, we obviously, the longer the delay, the less the money, the supply chain is going up; inflation is going up. Everything is going to cost more.

The Service must play a key role in ensuring those projects are built in a timely manner.

On the Justice40 issue, I have tried to, like, dig deep into that to see--it is pledged that 40 percent of the funding that is going, is going to go to justice communities.

I think we all see what is happening in Europe, we know that the reliance on our own natural--our own energy resources, in an all-of-the-above energy plan, and we are feeling--I think most of us in energy states feeling as though that is…

I just want to ask for your pledge again, that folks in the energy industry have an ability to come, knock on your door, and actually have their side of the story heard.

I look forward to our visit together, to West Virginia in June.

I cannot begin to express my frustration and disappointment by your Agency's decisions, which was, by all accounts, an abuse of the EPA's authority under the Clean Water Act.

This may be a Mississippi issue today, but make no mistake, the same abuse of authority may end up in your backyard tomorrow.

Last Friday, I spoke with a mother who had recently lost her daughter to fentanyl laced methamphetamine.

I am especially concerned about this disease because we have a lot of coal miners in West Virginia.

I am pleased to be the lead sponsor along with Senator Reed of the Childhood Cancer STAR Act.

As long as there are members of the Democratic Party, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who put these, you know, sort of recondite procedural techniques ahead of being actually able to pass legislation, there`s frankly very little that, you…

I don`t really understand the point of putting this up for a vote if you can`t get all the Democrats on board.

The bill we have today to vote on, Women`s Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support it, but make no mistake, it is not Roe v Wade codification. It`s an expansion.

Senator Manchin's objections here, really speak more to a desire to permit states to restrict abortion than to permit women to make their own decisions about these important matters concerning their own bodies.