Thank you, Chairman Gardner, for holding this hearing to discuss the 14 bills on today's agenda.

This bill would direct the Department of Energy to establish and update a coal technology program to develop new transformational technologies for coal-powered generation.

Congress has got to do something about this.

This is a bipartisan Act that I worked with Senator Coons on.

I have introduced legislation to do just that.

I am very proud of your accomplishments in an industry that does not have many women.

I look forward to working with you on this issue.

I wish to recognize Timothy J. Goode on the occasion of his retirement as Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia. Chief Deputy Goode is stepping down after a long career of accomplishment and service to his…

I have concerns about the hunting. I do not see where we have ever allowed access to hunting in the culture that we have in the National Park System.

The reason I am saying that is I know the passion in my state and the culture in my state, and if that is limited or taken away, we do not need to get into this because we all want the same thing.

I continue to have serious concerns with some of our civil nuclear cooperative agreements with other countries, in particular, China.

I have been working on my, with my staff, on legislation to support community banks, who are, frankly, suffering under these Basel III absurd treatment of these assets.

The Trump Administration has frozen implementation of Basel III's punitive treatment of mortgage servicing assets.

this basically makes no sense to West Virginians at all to produce as much power as we produce, to be paying higher prices that are unnecessary.

I believe that the grid is going to be jeopardized, the security of our nation is going to be jeopardized.

But we worry about the resilience of our system.

So something is causing the people who are struggling day-to-day, month-to-month, to pay a much higher price, and it doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

I didn't look at this from a political standpoint.