The increasing market share of the natural gas in our electricity mix has translated into great need for expanding energy infrastructure in the United States, particularly our pipelines.

If it is good for the United States forest management, then it should be something that, basically, the private sector should be able to benefit from.

I am concerned that the budget may reverse some of the progress our forests have made.

These pipelines are helping secure our nation's energy security. I would much rather be selling gas to Boston than have Russia bring it in.

I think your cut, I was looking at your cuts, were pretty substantial here, seven percent, $341 million.

Thank you very much for being here with us and we appreciate in West Virginia, Senator Manchin is here, we enjoy our national forest, that is for sure.

Another issue for us in the State is opioid and opioid use. And we have the highest rate of deaths resulted from overdose than any other State in the Union.

I'm thinking maybe this is an avenue to improve the situation.

It becomes part of the system is what you're saying.

I hope that it will become moving forward that you equip the psychologists with that kind of--yes, did you want to say something?

Thank you for the hearing and thank all of you. Your stories are very compelling.

As everything becomes more and more public, I think this is something that is probably going to be more pervasive than what we really know at this point.

The athletes are sort of throw-aways.

But in order to keep them viable and growing, you have to make sure that we are taking care of communities at the same time.

I think it comes to another, a bigger, question really probably throughout the Park System is that your communities that are supportive of the Park System, many times are small communities because you are in rural areas, you are in outdoor…

I've got a power plant in Pleasants County, West Virginia. It's a 1,300 megawatt--1.3 gigawatts of power.

Over the past 8 years on this committee, we've heard a lot of comments in hearings about the--our aging coal and nuclear fleet.

I appreciate the opportunity to speak today about the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be the Deputy Administrator of the EPA--an extremely important position. Mr. Wheeler's expertise and experience make him extraordinarily qualified to…