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Broadband access can provide West Virginians with opportunities that lead to new jobs, higher wages, and providing that momentum that our State's economy needs.

Includes an assessment of whether the data in the National Broadband Map accurately reflects the broadband coverage currently available to rural consumers and . . . is a critical step towards ensuring that the infrastructure necessary for…

I recently joined Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in sponsoring legislation to encourage partnerships between the state forests and the Forest Service to carry out such landscape restoration efforts.

We cannot short-change our efforts to combat this crisis.

We made a promise to our miners and cutting this critical funding undermines that promise.

That is why I have joined with Senators Kaine, Warner, and Casey to push for the fully authorized level of funding for this program: $10 million.

That may seem like a small amount when we're talking about this huge budget, but for a $7.2 million program that serves some of the hardest working people the country, that's a lot of money.

What do you propose telling the children, veterans, and seniors who rely on the services that this block grant helps us provide?

West Virginians who are suffering from opioid addiction don't have an extra few thousand dollars to spend on treatment.

My state of West Virginia has been hit harder by the opioid epidemic than any other state.

We lost more than 33,000 people to an opioid overdose in 2015.

That is why I introduced Jessie's Law.

So the recommendation there would be for us to go back to our respective health officers and make sure that we're gathering statistics, making the case for the greater targeted resources.

One of our concerns is that some of the grant funding and other things are formula funded, but we want to see it targeted obviously to the States that have some of the deepest and most devastating problems.

I think one of my responses to that might be that this is not a new phenomenon, but a relatively later developing over the course of, say, the last probably 5 or 6 years certainly where we've recognized what's really going on with better…

The GI Bill should not be considered as a cost of war but instead a component of service.

The cost of electricity in West Virginia has gone up because 90 percent of our power was coming from coal and the overreach of regulation from the Obama Administration drove the price through the sky.

We have an 'all-in' energy policy in West Virginia. We want all the hydro we can get. We want all the wind and solar.