I have been functioning for years now on the fact that climate change is a global issue and requires a global solution.

It is essential that new Federal policies provide equality and opportunity for rural communities that are too often left behind.

As long as countries like China and India are expanding their dependence on fossil fuels, America will still experience wildfires on the West Coast, droughts and floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes in the East.

If America alone decarbonizes, the impact on the global environment would be virtually immeasurable.

My district is facing the brunt of the transition away from coal.

I will soon be introducing comprehensive legislation, the New Promise Act, to put impacted coal communities in the driver's seat.

Serious Federal policy proposals must also reflect the global nature of the challenge.

I send a question to the desk directed to the House managers. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from West Virginia has a question for the House managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: Would…

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I think I have a good leg to stand on in this, because I live there, have seen it.

I think those are examples of where you are creating jobs and getting an environmental outcome at the same time.

What happens to Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz or Welch? What happens to those in the meantime?

Displaced workers, coal miners, can work, quote, 'reclaiming abandoned land mines.'

There are no solar panel or wind turbine manufacturing plants in Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz, Ohio; or Welch, West Virginia.

But if members of this committee naively think that other nations are waiting for America to lead, they're wrong.

Let's not--I will make a deal with you.

President Biden wants workers to have alternatives.

So, Mr. Chairman, remember, your party controls the House, the Senate, and the White House. You can do almost anything want, but don't forget that 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should.'