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Compromise isn't a bad word. You understand that improving good governance, the economy, and the environment is not a zero-sum game.

Moreover, EPA drastically missed its implementation deadlines and failed to designate non-attainment areas under the 2008 standard until May 2012.

Senator Capito's leadership on this issue is to be commended, and I am delighted to be a co-sponsor with her on this legislation.

One of these bills is my Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, which is co-sponsored by Senator Flake from Arizona and Senator Manchin from West Virginia.

The new EPA standard will hit our manufacturing community hard at a time when we are desperately in need of economic development in many areas of the country, including Appalachia.

I certainly want to look for common sense solutions, ways to maybe massage the issue to make it so that some of the concerns that we have heard voiced today would be addressed.

Delay increases costs. The costs to California obviously are going to be very good.

I think we have a unique situation with a small refinery that is being penalized because they are producing far more diesel than gasoline.

But the EPA imposes the same proportional RIN obligation on all refiners, even some that produce significantly more diesel than gasoline.

Although Congress intended to balance the goal of building a nationwide network with an opportunity for states to build their own, it certainly did not intend to create an incentive for states to opt out of FirstNet's network.

Well, Colonel, I look forward to voting for you and supporting you and helping you in any way we can our mission.

What is the most important lesson you have learned in the past 6 years, and what can we do different?

We ought to do that, Mr. Chairman; if I could request that. Put a working group together with you all?

Let me tell you one thing, if some of us could bring our heads of our caseworkers in our States and bring them to sit with you.

I think what needs to be considered here is that--I can just tell you what our staff feels like, and the caseworkers.

I thank the Senator for answering the questions that we have had. I thank all of you for being informative in the questions that we still have furthermore to ask.

I have not had that in West Virginia at all. If anything, they said: Please, err on the side of caution. Keep me and my children safe. That is what they are saying. We are not taking any people's rights. But we have to have a process where…

Do they think we have broached the amendments and the Bill of Rights, that we have taken people's rights away?