When the hospitals and mines are closing down, don't shut down our refinery.

But the Fourth Circuit agreed with them. You all didn't agree with them. So I am just asking because I am running out time that you will rethink that again.

I am pleased this administration has deployed objective metrics to better access deliverables.

I do want to congratulate Administrator Wheeler for some of his recent actions to provide Americans safe drinking water.

I have said it before, but I believe it bears repeating, we need to not only know how American tax dollars are being spent, but are Americans getting a better quality of life for the return on their investment?

Rural America is still hurting and here we have now the last refinery which creates jobs in West Virginia and if we don't get that exemption, I don't know that they have a long-term future.

I think the people of Iowa, the people of the Midwest, these corn growers and soybean producers on a bipartisan basis are going to continue to press as hard as we can on this issue.

I want to also thank you for your prompt response to my inquiries over the last few weeks about the Paden City water problem.

I want to give them--if we offer all these tax credits for everything else, why in God's name aren't we doing the same thing for lead-based pipe in our homes?

Why aren't we offering a tax credit for people to be able to remove these, or grants?

We give tax credits for residential energy tax credits that deals with high-efficiency boilers, furnaces, and solar panels.

Several of you have come close but then you stopped.

I just hope that he didn't mean to insult my entire state when he said, I didn't understand the transcript. I understood it very well.

Mitt Romney is not a more sincere person or knowledgeable person that you can work with. And I enjoy him so much.

Let's see if our Republican colleagues believe that we should not have a rogue proxy, such as Rudy Giuliani or anyone else on behalf of the president or a senator or anyone in an elected position on a federal level, that's able to use the…

That's not who we are. That's not how this country has become the leader of the world.

Go ahead and insult me. It doesn't bother me. But don't be talking about the people in West Virginia. They're the hardest working, most patriotic people you'll ever meet.

It is important for us to continue this effort to try to reduce the emissions and I think we can do this with innovation.