I have always sort of had this vision. Being a coal State, obviously it is a big concern of mine that CO2 is going to have that value.

I want to thank my friend Doug for his willingness to serve our great nation and thank this Committee for allowing me to come before you today.

I've tried to remind the President and the White House, you know, the President got elected with one of which are tremendous margin in West Virginia and those were mostly Democrats.

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

Well, not a nice thing it does and from my point of view it doesn't from saying, you know, we're going to save $470 billion. That's a lot of money and we need to be as cost effective as we possibly can.

The only precondition we need is we're not going to repeal it and the other precondition we need is that we're going to go through a regular order.

Despite the previous Administration's war on coal, we still believe in coal and we believe it is going to come back.

We have got to make sure that energy resiliency and that we do an infrastructure bill it isn't just the bricks and mortar for transportation.

All of the renewables, God bless them, we like it. We like wind, solar, we like it all.

We have got to understand when we debate these issues we are all sensitive that there are consequences with it.

Well, if we can get you all--can we get any written statements in support of that because we are working with the Department of Energy.

Oh, it is not going down.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank all of you.

We like to do the heavy lifting, and we will continue to do it.

The only two things you have uninterruptible in the United States or in the world that I know of, is coal and nuclear.

Well, West Virginia is happy to continue to provide the power that keeps the East Coast lit up.

I am very much concerned about that because I remember the Polar Vortex.

You have to be in the real world. And the real world is you better have so much reliable power and coal is going to play a major part, 30 percent or more, for the next 20, 30 years.