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Simply put, it's essential that Congress authorize these authorities to help keep the country safe while protecting our constitutional rights.

I expect you will be a forceful advocate for the intelligence community in those discussions, while maintaining an unwavering respect for the rule of law.

It appears that the social cost of carbon is nothing but a political tool lacking scientific integrity and transparency conceived and utilized by an Administration pushing a green agenda to the detriment of the American taxpayers.

If signed into law, the DOE and the EPA would no longer rely on manipulated and fabricated economic benefits to justify or support new job-killing environmental regulations.

The screening that occurs in those small airports can be exceedingly important when we saw what happened.

I would ask unanimous consent that we could introduce into the record a letter from the Association of General Contractors of America and their concern for the infrastructure and modernization of our regulatory reform.

We can't get the permits to get those pipelines built.

It has been something that means a lot to me as a construction industry and I spent, again, 51 years in it.

The anti-coal fervor that the Obama administration put in place; 83,000 coal miners lost their job.

We have seen our coal industry collapse.

We have just gone through 8 years, we have seen a loss of baseload capacity across this country and we are going to have to rebuild now after 8 years of a war on coal.

Absolutely, we have got to have reliable baseload, and that could be a combination of nuclear, I think coal should still be in a mix and can be, and of course natural gas.

I'm a little concerned about lack of global standards, is cost. No one has mentioned cost up here.

I don't see anything about third party certification for public safety, putting public safety first overriding competitive pressures.

As one of just two licensed engineers in Congress, this is an intriguing process that we're going to undergo.

I think the intention of WIFIA is to use those as a jumping point; not intending to decrease their value or decrease their amounts but to use them as a leverage point.

Thank you to our State's junior Senator, Shelley Moore Capito, for her assistance in improving West Virginia's rural water infrastructure.

As you move forward with MFII, we ask that your efforts help to incent wireless carriers to preserve, upgrade, and expand mobile broadband in rural America, rather than degrade and reduce competition in areas that need it most.