That is why I introduced Jessie's Law.

We made a promise to our miners and cutting this critical funding undermines that promise.

So the recommendation there would be for us to go back to our respective health officers and make sure that we're gathering statistics, making the case for the greater targeted resources.

My state of West Virginia has been hit harder by the opioid epidemic than any other state.

I recently joined Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in sponsoring legislation to encourage partnerships between the state forests and the Forest Service to carry out such landscape restoration efforts.

We cannot short-change our efforts to combat this crisis.

We lost more than 33,000 people to an opioid overdose in 2015.

I think one of my responses to that might be that this is not a new phenomenon, but a relatively later developing over the course of, say, the last probably 5 or 6 years certainly where we've recognized what's really going on with better…

One of our concerns is that some of the grant funding and other things are formula funded, but we want to see it targeted obviously to the States that have some of the deepest and most devastating problems.

includes an assessment of whether the data in the National Broadband Map accurately reflects the broadband coverage currently available to rural consumers and . . . is a critical step towards ensuring that the infrastructure necessary for…

The cost of electricity in West Virginia has gone up because 90 percent of our power was coming from coal and the overreach of regulation from the Obama Administration drove the price through the sky.

Contrary to what some people believe, West Virginia is not just all about coal.

There comes the time when you put a pencil to it and a chance of losing 240 jobs and taxes of $1.1 million. Does it make sense?

We have an 'all-in' energy policy in West Virginia. We want all the hydro we can get. We want all the wind and solar.

I think that is what veterans want to see coming from the VA, to be focused on what the veterans need.

Well, we know this hearing is about care in the community.

Sir, we need your help on this.

I think this move to Cerner is going to prove to be a tremendous move economically for the VA and benefit-wise for our veterans.