I think it is important for EPA to get out and meet with the people, particularly those they are regulating.

I'm also interested in your proposal to lock your information as an individual that you said you would have on-stream in January at cost-free where the customer could opt-in and then opt-out, unlock and lock their own personal data.

I think one of the first, if not the first, meeting is to be convened in Charleston, West Virginia, my hometown and obviously in the heart of coal country in the State of West Virginia and that region.

I would not advocate that you only come to coal country to talk about coal. You have to go everywhere.

I would like to talk about an issue in my State of West Virginia--really my region--that is becoming very important, I think, to this country's energy security and prosperity. As we know, West Virginia has extensive natural gas liquid…

I am a strong advocate of IV&V--independent verification and validation--that we've used in NASA and elsewhere where we have someone else looking at it.

When you see a UL rating you know it's good. You know it has been done independently, and the same thing with FM.

I just don't want anything to come in between the government or whatever and energy efficiency and Energy Star.

I see that in a lot of places, not just with monetary policy. I see it with environmental policy in my State of West Virginia.

I thank my colleague from Colorado, Mr. Buck, for leading this Special Order effort and for recognizing me to talk about this issue and the general problem in the Senate today of having legislation considered, debated, and passed in a way…

I rise to give my fifth in a series of speeches addressing what I think will be a monumental achievement of this Senate and House when we pass our tax reform bill. I have spoken previously about how I believe tax reform will be good in a…

thank you. As we heard my colleague from Missouri saying, we have a great opportunity this week to confirm four outstanding individuals to the Federal circuit courts. These nominees are well-qualified individuals who have demonstrated a…

I come from the State of West Virginia and it is a state that believes, really, in an all-in energy policy.

We have achieved this balance. It is time to permit the exploration and development.

Those of us who come from extraction states have done the heavy lifting.

We do not live in a fantasy world and we cannot pick and choose what we would rather have.

I really want to applaud the Department of Energy's efforts to refocus the narrative and the discussion about reliability and resiliency.

Our way of life, also, has been infringed upon.