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Mr. McKinley. I am just running short of time, obviously. I just want--it is a reality check to realize what we are about to do here in pursuing, because if we can keep our coal-fired, fossil-fuel-fired power plants, we are not going to…
I don't know how in the world we are going to get to that.
I am going to have to have 850 square miles of land committed to putting windmills on.
I think there is an alternative that we don't have to face all the problems because they are telling me we may have hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines we have to put in as we make this transition.
Mr. Chairman, that is West by God Virginia. Let me just continue on with this.
Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.
It`s a tremendous opportunity for us to show the rest of the world that we can still get big things done in a bipartisan way.
We have a package that meets the needs of the 21st century and I think it`s a tremendous opportunity for us to show the rest of the world we can still get big things done in a bipartisan way.
He’s on board with doing, yes, this infrastructure bill with Republicans that he worked on so hard. But also the larger potentially Democrat only bill for all the other stuff that Democrats want to do through reconciliation.
Partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.
It's now well known that a single pharmacy in the West Virginia town of Kermit, with a population of less than 400 people, received shipments of roughly 9 million pain pills over just 2 years to a single pharmacy.
I would like to, once again, receive your commitment to working on this in a timely manner.
As West Virginia has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic, I've supported the special agents in charge of the regional FBI office in their efforts to catch the largest distributors and try and stem the flow of drugs into the State.
To help fix this problem, I introduced a bill called the Clean Start Act last Congress and again this Congress, which seeks to help former addicts with criminal records seal those records if they complete a comprehensive addiction…
Unfortunately, my Republican colleagues refuse to allow debate on this legislation despite the reasonable changes made to focus the bill on the core issues facing our democracy.
We just need to make sure we shorten the time to get to those last places.
We have some of the lowest broadband deployment in the country, unfortunately.