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I am deeply concerned with the Department of Education's decision to reject the Upward Bound applications at West Virginia State University and West Virginia University because of two minor technicalities.

Now, this budget proposes to reduce Federal funding for elementary and secondary education in my State by $30 million more than 20 percent.

I understand that you feel very strongly about school choice, but as we discussed months ago, 'choice' simply doesn't make sense in rural West Virginia.

Given the challenges that students, local businesses, and communities are facing, how can the Department justify cutting investments in programs that help students get good paying jobs that strengthen local economies?

I have always been a strong supporter of Career and Technical education.

I am very concerned about the proposed cuts to Career and Technical Education (CTE) State Grants.

I hope you would consider that.

We are going to hope that maybe somebody from your department would come to West Virginia and go through our department with them and explain that.

Well, they do not have the money to do it. That is the problem when you cut it.

We are getting pummeled by the opiate addiction that goes on in our State and around this country.

One thing that keeps us bipartisan here in the Senate is veterans and children.

I do not accept that you cannot relook at something.

We want to find out what Comey was thinking at that time. If he thought it was -- had risen to that level of obstruction. And if it had, why hadn't something been done? Why didn't he act when he was still FBI director? If not, was that…

I think we need to have a diversified fuel mix going forward.

I would hope that you would look into Morgantown, the NETL lab, which is a very, very productive lab and does an awful lot of heavy lifting and a lot of work.

As you know, I come from West Virginia. We do a lot of heavy lifting and we are really dependent upon FERC, a working FERC.

If you would even go one step further. With Kaspersky, could you find out if any of your contractors that you rely on is using Kaspersky's software?

General, we have great concerns about.