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I am not opposed to wind and solar. I think it is unique. I think it's something that makes it truly part of all of the above. I am willing to support that.

So if that were correct, and I don't disagree with you on that coming from a coal State, but if that is correct, then why are we having policy that is moving us in that direction?

I want to thank you for scheduling this hearing and for your work on this important issue.

Imagine what it would be like if West Virginia stopped producing and delivering energy.

The electric grid is essential to our lives and is also the lifeblood of the economy.

I want to have more facts. The engineer in me says I need more facts.

I am a huge skeptic of driverless cars and I am not buying this one iota yet.

First of all, I agree with my friend wholeheartedly. We are asking for a repair. It doesn't make any sense at all to go down the path of repealing until we make an effort to make this better and protect the people who are depending on us…

We want to make sure that with this Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act that we move forward to streamlining the approval to incenting new innovative technologies.

We have made it stronger and I think more viable as we move to hopefully moving this legislation to the floor in the 115th Congress.

We are amidst, nationally and certainly at ground zero, an opioid crisis.

What a wonderful tool for emergency services to have in their toolbox to be able to meet these challenges within hours.

I just--everything everyone is doing realizing that basically every child is not going to go to 4-year baccalaurean school.

If we don't do something to help them, if we don't do something to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be successful in another career, West Virginia is going to continue to slide, and frankly, we can't afford to.

The Polish ambassador was bragging about they are producing and educating more engineers in Poland than the entire United States.

I was at the Polish Embassy and we were doing a collaboration, State of West Virginia, working as far as in connectivity and trying to exchange in some of our high-tech industries.

This committee stepped up last year by providing $19 million in last year's Omnibus Bill to help displaced coal workers with job training and development.

The topic is, I think, very timely and very important because of the promise that STEM education holds, not just for a stronger economy and job opportunities, but for the health and wellbeing of those, our neighbors in all of our States.